We were always taught to not touch anything that wasn't ours and that is so firmly ingrained in most of us that we'd never consider stealing. Sadly, there are too many people who have no conscience about taking what doesn't belong to them.
On a casino cruise, one of our ladies left her wallet with $300 in it on the reception counter of the ship. What would the chance be that the first person to pick that wallet up would be a thief? They were and she never recovered her property.
A criminal caught red handed stealing Christmas trees from a church lot in the middle of the night had no remorse. As he sat handcuffed in the police car, he drunkenly slurred into the reporter's camera saying "I was gonna give them $100 but I guess I just got there too early". The only $100 that low life ever had came from the welfare office and I doubt he'd spend it on a tree.
A lady here had her wallet slipped out of her purse while she left the check out at Sears. She'd paid for her purchase and didn't take the time to zipper up her purse because she didn't want to hold up the shoppers behind her in line. Well, the woman shopper directly behind her saw her opportunity and took it.
There seem to be two kinds of thieves...one steals when the opportunity presents itself and others go out on a mission to steal. Anything is fair game. I picture these thieves with tortured minds because conscience is a powerful regulator. It's difficult for me to accept the fact that their personal conscience might be wired so that they feel no shame for their actions. But their lifelong punishment is that they're saddled with an ugly mind.
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