• fakeman_pretendname
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    13 days ago

    I must be missing something. What’s actually the crime or scandal here?

    Haigh: “Help, I’ve been mugged”
    Police: “What did they take?”
    Haigh: “I can’t remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone”
    Police: “Ok”
    Haigh: “Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned”
    Police: “Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!”
    Government, ten years later: “Also, you’re not allowed to fix our railways or have a job”
    Tories: “Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn’t have been on the list, so a decade later, it’s only correct that they shouldn’t be allowed to have a job”

    I assume I’ve missed something key here.

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      13 days ago

      I think the issue was she didn’t update the police when she found the phone at home.

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        13 days ago

        That’s what they’re saying… but… so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I’m still struggling to see the scandal or crime.