Man admits he faked burglary to solicit holiday charity

No Tim the moral of the story is don't try to scam people especially around the holidays and expect forgiveness. Especially this kind of scam. He shoulda of thought about how he would feel BEFORE he did it. Sure Christmas is a time to gather together and love one another but I have absolutely no sympathy for people who are trying to take away from the ones who really need the charity around the holidays.
 
This is a lot more than just a MISTAKE, this is a fucking premeditated scam to trick people out of their hard earned dollars that they could be spending on their OWN family for christmas and instead they're spending on this man out of the kindness of their hearts, he knew full well what he was doing was wrong before he did it and he did it anyways, the fact that he now feels bad about it is irrelevant, I don't give a FUCK if he's trying to make this right because it never should have happened in the first place, this man will get no pity from me, people a lot worse off than him don't pull this shit.
 
C'mon not only did he report a fake theft so he could get more Christmas presents but he put his kid on TV and did an interview to ask people to donate to him. He used his own child to pull a Christmas Scam. If that's not low I don't know what is.

So you're saying that it's alright to do Holiday Scams cuz I'm not getting any Christmas presents this year but you don't see me on TV scamming people. It's just not the right thing to do.

He's an adult and tried to pull the wool over many peoples eyes. Christmas or not you just don't scam people. It's wrong!
 
darkangel said:
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Pathetic, simply pathetic.

There is no more compassion in this world and you are a prime example.


This man did something very stupid and deserves to be punished. But did you read the story at all? He did this to help provide a Christmas for his little girl. He wanted her to have presents. He didn't do it to support his crack habit.
It was actually refreshing to hear that someone had enough morals to do the right thing and confess his crimes out of sheer guilt. So at this point he needs to apologize (which he did) return the gifts and pay the fine (which I'm sure he's going to do). That's good enough for me considering what he did and the reasons behind it.
But I guess that isn't good enough for you, and that's pretty sad.
 
darkangel said:
He's an adult and tried to pull the wool over many peoples eyes. Christmas or not you just don't scam people. It's wrong!
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But the season seemed to matter quite a lot before:

darkangel said:
the moral of the story is don't try to scam people especially around the holidays and expect forgiveness..... I have absolutely no sympathy for people who are trying to take away from the ones who really need the charity around the holidays.
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It's a good thing that courts don't pass judgement on spur of the moment emotional outburts.
 
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There's too much compassion in this world IMO, everytime a thread like this comes up it's full of people who feel sorry for these scumbags, going on about how we should go easy on everyone and how criminals should be treated better and blah blah blah, I don't have any money to buy presents for anyone, should I file a fake burglary report to score pity? Absolutely not, that's terrible and Feeling bad about it afterwards doesn't make what you did any less terrible, there are a lot of murderers and rapists rotting in jail right now who genuinely feel bad about what they did, should they be released from prison based off this? Of course not.
 
dkwrtw said:
There's too much compassion in this world IMO, everytime a thread like this comes up it's full of people who feel sorry for these scumbags, going on about how we should go easy on everyone and how criminals should be treated better and blah blah blah, I don't have any money to buy presents for anyone, should I file a fake burglary report to score pity? Absolutely not, that's terrible and Feeling bad about it afterwards doesn't make what you did any less terrible, there are a lot of murderers and rapists rotting in jail right now who genuinely feel bad about what they did, should they be released from prison based off this? Of course not.
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Too much compassion?

You have a problem differentiating between serious crimes and this non-serious crime where the perpetrator came forward and apologised and accepted punishment....
 
And every time one of these threads comes up, there's half a dozen people to every one you mention who wants to stone them! Someone robbed a house - kill them! Someone burnt a poppy - kill them! Someone tried to do something for their kid, got a bit greedy but then owned up before any real harm was done - kill them!
What's even more ironic is it comes from the same kind of people who will argue most indignantly with Mazhur against sharia laws. lol!
 
Zorak said:
Too much compassion?

You have a problem differentiating between serious crimes and this non-serious crime where the perpetrator came forward and apologised and accepted punishment....
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I was going to say the same thing...

No where did I say this guy should walk away scot-free. He is being required to pay a fine, he made a public apology and he's returning the items... what else do you want from him? Jail time? Take his daughter away from him and put her in foster care?

Don't you realize that articles like this are meant to enrage the public? They are meant to play on your emotions... and they are apparently quite effective :dunno
 
No Tim I have no sympathy for premeditated immoral criminal offenses that are totally unnecessary to do. He had money for presents and just wanted more. Did you read the article Tim?

"I did it because I thought people might donate Christmas presents, and I would get some more for Abbey.
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He had Christmas presents for his child but that wasn't good enough. He wanted more and that's greed. If he can be greedy at Christmas time then I can not feel any sympathy for what he did. I'm not saying he should be stoned but for every action there's a reaction. And I'm entitled to my reaction. Christmas time or not he did something morally wrong and used his child to do it. I don't care what you say that is just so wrong.
 
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Tim Wood, 21, from County Durham, northeastern England, told police that thieves stole £500 ($787) worth of presents from under the family's Christmas tree and also claimed they took his TV, microwave and electric fire, The Northern Echo reported.
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So why did he claim they took his TV, microwave and electric fire? What's the reason for that? He scammed everyone by making them feel sorry for him and then felt bad about it. Well whooptie Doo! That doesn't make it right or forgivable.
 
It wasn't right and he got punished for it, he made it less worse by owning up of his own free will. But you dont think that punishment is enough. You would like to see someone who is no danger to society, taken away from his family and stoned.:smiley24:

You have a strange view of what punishment should fit the crime and feel the punishment should be far, far, far, far worse and innocent people should get punished too. It's only right that a little girl should be deprived of her dad because he made a mistake where no one really got hurt, isn't it?
 
Peter Parka said:
So what punishment do you think fits the crime seeing you're so outraged at the punishment for this and please explain why, logically without resorting to inbalanced, emotional hysteria.
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The stoned comment was sarcastic Peter. Just as sarcastic as Tim's stoned comment. I never said that the punishment didn't fit the crime but it's still very wrong what he did and I have the right to not forgive any immorally illegal act. That's my prerogative. And whats' this shit about inbalanced, emotional hysteria? :confused
 
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