₦airaland Forum

rudedough: You have freedom of speech.

You all don't know that in law, a crime is a crime. The gravity of the crime would be decided in a law court.

The term criminal doesn't mean a thief. Over speeding is a crime and you are termed a criminal for over speeding.

Armed robbers, murderers, traffic offenders or hawkers are all the same criminals. So don't take the word criminal out of contest.

I'm not being cold I'm only trying to be objective. As for killing people, I don't but know that we all die. You may be 99, a middle age man, a teenager, a baby, even a fetus. Death is inevitable.

Sad reality again.

theoctopus: This is your answer right there, iddiota!

Florida Cop Buys $100 in Groceries for Woman Caught Shoplifting Food

A struggling Florida mom who was caught trying to shoplift hundreds of dollars of groceries ended up with food and a ride home from a kind-hearted police officer, instead of a ride to the stationhouse.

When Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas, 55, was dispatched to look into a shoplifting case at a Publix grocery store, a store manager led her to Jessica Robles.

“She was crying. I said, ‘Okay, what did she take?’ And he pointed to a grocery cart that was full of groceries,” Thomas told ABCNews.com. “I’ve been on [the job] 23 years, and I went, wow.”

“She just filled up the grocery cart and she just walked out, which shocked me and I asked her, ‘Why?’” Thomas recalled. “She said, ‘My children were hungry.’ And that immediately impacted me.”

Thomas said Robles told her through tears, “I’d love to be able to tell you I’ll never do this again, but I can’t because my children are hungry.”

“My grandchildren flashed before my eyes,” Thomas said. “I knew at that time what I was going to do. I knew I was going to buy her groceries.”

Thomas and her partner took the woman to their car, completed her paperwork and then Thomas asked her to wait a few minutes.

“I grabbed my debit card, ran back into the store and bought things that would sustain her for a week or so and when I walked out she saw that I had the cart of groceries and she burst out in tears and asked if she could hug me, which is kind of unusual for the suspect to be hugging the officer,” Thomas said with a laugh. “I let her hug me.”...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/florida-cop-buys-100-in-groceries-for-woman-caught-shoplifting-food/

manny4life: The Constitution was drafted and signed by who? How do you define a govt? A govt is -, by the - and for the - (now fill in the blanks).

Please don't preach about Constitution, the Edo state people are the govt, they make their laws so if they deem that their govt has erred, they should remove him... Shikena.

You can uphold the law without being rude and callous and most importantly being unethical and uncouth about it. Like I said, Edo citizens reserve the right to impeach him immediately.

manny4life: That is why I asked na,

It's ok for a Judge to sentence someone to DEATH because they stole recharge cards (not armed roberry or even violent theft), but someone who steal billions at the expense of patients in the hospital, bad roads that leads to numerous accidents, poor safety standards and metrics in different boards and entities, even pensioners who end up committing suicide, they allow these same folks walk free. If this isn't a form of physiological violence, then what is?

Meanwhile, go tell that to the U.S. Judge who sentenced Bernie Madoff to 150 years in Jain "TWICE", as well as other well known sentence the difference between armed robbery and non-violent theft.

theoctopus: You are a potential terrorist. No human feeling. You think laws are more important than humans. If you finish cleansing the land, is it you and your generation that will live there alone. What a sad hypocrite and a holier than thou iddiota! You have no sense at all!

jice: True. the woman should go and die according to you. Do you know how many people took their means of livelihoods this year. He should add death to it.

All of you are in Lagos passing judgments as it please you should come out nairaland into reality and then this careless statements will cease.

manny4life: You mean the type of emotions where a judge hands down death sentence to someone who steals recharge cards and allows someone who stole N100milliom Naira walk free... Are we talking about that sense of judgement?

Zither: Your economic analysis is obviously out of place and irrelevant to the central topic here...what has economic analysis got to do with the callous disposition of a Governnor towards the governed as reflected in his words that she should go an die?

rudedough: Until you give up those emotions, it'll be hard for you to push forward in life. I'm a Medical Doctor and I can assure you that I've seen more emotions from patients in ICU but that doesn't mean that the surgery wouldn't be performed.

Think about the greater good. If everyone starts crying and begging like this woman, what do you think would be of our society?

Armed robbers cry too
Ritualists cry more
Even Kidnappers
...name them.

You cannot rule a state or a family wearing a sweat pant. Rules are rules and any who defaults must face the law. It's that simple.

manny4life: Fair hearing? I don't see him extending same hand of fair-hearing to a woman who pleaded with you. God forbid me have his ugly battered, wicked head for supper, but YES, I will want him to resign immediately.

Politics is a profession where you lead the people, each profession has guided rules of ethical representation, and being a governor doesn't exempt you from that rules. So YES he committed no crime but he committed a WRONG, had it been here in the states, I will support calls for his removal from office immediately. The woman is a citizen, at least the woman doesn't hold an authority and she's by no means obligated to live up to public standards other than not breaking the law, however, this is opposite to a so-called leader who are held to standards and expectations...

manny4life: So we're to wait "if he stands by his comment"? This is why Nigerians will be abused continuously... Like seriously, smh

manny4life: So we're to wait "if he stands by his comment"? This is why Nigerians will be abused continuously... Like seriously, smh

manny4life: So we're to wait "if he stands by his comment"? This is why Nigerians will be abused continuously... Like seriously, smh

nkwaltd:
I only said that to make the poster feels what the children of the widow will go through,

If someone tell your mother to go and die how do you feel even when your mother is wrong?

Billyonaire: You have written a lot, but you come off as someone who doesnt understand what it means for a Governor to tell the governed, "Go and Die". In saner climes, Oshiomole would have been impeached by now. The law is meant for the people and not the other way round. In jurisprudence, Justice is tempered with mercy.

"Go and Die!" Is the worst statement any Governor can say to the Governed, Oshiomole deserves impeachment for such careless and uncouth statement.

nkwaltd: You've made your point

PLEASE TELL YOUR MOTHER TO GO AND DIE too.

adino: The woman is not a hawker, she was waiting for a bus to take her home. Listen to her very well on the video.

Luxiana19: I love you guys! They've aged beautifully.

great1: Where do you think you are?? Ajegunle