"This is Bob. He steals here."

Now there's a interesting way of selfjustice. In a small town in Belgium shop owners tend to plaster your face on their websites or shop windows if you take their goodies without pay. Well stealing = bad, so boohoo to you, that's the risk which comes with the "job". A judge however gave one of those shop owners a fine a while back for violating the privacy of the thief. Privacy shmivacy! Usually those shops are the only source of income for those shop owners and then some kid comes in and steals cigarettes or in the most recent case, expensive audio equipment and apparently the Police can't deal with them. What else is a shopowner supposed to do? Of course they ban the thieves from the shop but it's not like they have a force field that can be adjusted to only let people through that haven't stolen from you. And in all those cases the thiefs have been PROVEN to have stolen so it's not like the rule of "innocent until proven guilty" comes into play.

I say, plaster their faces up everywhere in your store if you like. If it has the garlic on a vamp effect and those kids will stay clear of your shop from now on, awesome! And why does that judge not rule that if the thief sets foot back into the store he's been banned from that he then can go sleep in a cell for a week with Igor. That's be a fun prospect for them, I'm sure.

Really, sometimes the whole privacy preserving crap goes way to far.


Edit: Okay now some smokers rant-time.

As you know my office seems to be the only one in this country, heck on this entire continent even, where people are allowed to smoke in their rooms. Well I just went to one of my supervisors to ask several questions and he was sitting there with 2 other collegues at a table next to a closed window, smoking like chimneys. I HAD to ask those question since my boss wasn't there and I needed to finish all the data for upload and publishing. So I went in and talked as fast as possible and ran out again as fast as I could. Still now my clothes, may hair and my skin reek of that shit! Argh!!! I need to go in there every other day to get new documents etc so I'm exposed to the smoke. Man it makes me so angry, why can't they just go to the designated smoking areas? And since all people in the staff union, as well as our president & vice president are smokers, this smelly policy will not change. It's so frustrating. Man standing in that room with all the smoke I could feel my life get sucked out of me. And then I get a negative comment during my evaluation talk about me not socializing enough with all of my collegues, and regardless of how fast and precise I work, overal my grade wasn't the best it could be because of me being "asocial" (i.o.w.: work instead if taking 4 coffee breaks per day) and meanwhile all those other people are much more asocial by exposing their non-smoking co-workers (who are in a majority, btw) to that disgusting shit they spew out. Yes, I'M the asocial one... *grumble grumble*