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Offline gunug

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Survey: Six out of 10 people regularly commit crimes!
« on: June 26, 2007, 08:37:22 AM »
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Keele University researchers said it showed petty crime was rife among the middle classes and exposed the "law-abiding majority" to be a myth.

Their poll of 1,807 people in England and Wales found 61% had committed one of a series of offences.

They included paying "cash in hand" to avoid VAT and stealing items from work.

The study found that around one-third of those questioned (34%) paid "cash in hand" to avoid taxation and about one in five (18%) had taken something, such as stationery, from work.


whew.gif They're apparently talking about everyone else!  Well, there was this old poem about Taffy!  This was on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6235988.stm
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2007, 08:40:00 PM »
The majority don't get caught.
Apparently the criteria is if you don't do time, it isn't a crime.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2007, 01:01:59 PM »
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What, no rebuttals?

Personally, I've never exceeded a speed limit, failed to stop completely at a stop sign, taken so much as a paperclip from work without permission, cycled on a footpath or sworn. I've also never EVER told a lie....  Devilish2.gif
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« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2007, 09:10:51 AM »
We seem to have misplaced 2 new data-projectors here at my office so naturally I thought about this subject; can't see it being worth a persons reputation to have "stolen' them!
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