Thieving... &*#@%!

There's something that's got me really p'd off lately - the absolute audacity of what has become known as "affirmative shopping". Taking that which others have worked and paid for, just because you can. Without a stitch of concience involved.

It's happening more and more frequently. Especially in certain parts of the country. If it's not secured, locked down, armed and dangerous (and comes with a matching pittbull), it's going to get lifted. Actually, even if it is they might steal it AND what it's bolted to.

Many of these theives have got the process down to a fine art - so well organized that they have the tools handy to rip you off within seconds, without you even noticing it. You stop at a traffic light, and it's gone.

That gets me very, very angry. What the hell happened to concience in society? To a sense of right and wrong? To working for what you want instead of just swiping it off someone else? And how do you stop it short of carrying a shotgun? It's like an infectious disease that just seems to be spreading everywhere.

A while back one of our large political figures was talking about "fear mongering" - how certain parts of the population are over-reacting and/or trying to make everyone panic. But this is day-to-day life. This is what happens each and every day - you get ripped off, replace it, get ripped off again, replace it... endless blerry cycle until you get so peeved you take a weapon to anyone who looks like they might have ripped you off in the past / are about to rip you off / may rip you off in the future.

You put up 9ft walls topped with spikes and broken glass, within more walls until it looks like very complex is a fort. You double up on security doors and fit bars to every inch of the windows (only to come home and find they've actually cut into the walls and removed them to break in). You call in armed response and hire security (who then sees a profit where there's one to be made and gets in on the crime deal). You give up, move to the countryside - and end up a victim of farm murders.

There's no escaping it seems. And that gets me very, very discouraged. And yes - angry.

I've got no answers on this one. So instead I'm just gonna stew a while.