https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/man-gets-charmed-by-golden-retriever-before-stealing-a-bike-from-a-garage-in-pacific-beach-sdpd/3278781/
An alleged burglary took place on Diamond Street in Pacific Beach last month.
At 10:40 p.m. on July 15, a man allegedly stole a bicycle from a home's garage.
In the middle of the brazen theft, he stopped to share a moment with a dog.
“The guy enters the garage, grabs the bike and starts to walk out. He is about five feet outside the garage door, and a golden retriever comes outside, into the garage, and follows the guy out. He immediately comes back in, parks the bike and starts playing with the dog,” San Diego Police Department Lt. Brian Brecht said.
A video posted on social media by San Diego police shows the man, after playing with the dog for about a minute, leaving the property with the bike that is believed to be around $1,300.
“We are still looking for the subject. That’s why we advertised this on social media, but hopefully, we can get some tips from the public,” Brecht said.
We really need to reign in our enthusiasm for stealing shit. It's (outdoor) catnip for opportunists and you wind up overthinking questions like "is $1300 the threshold for declaring someone a class enemy?"
Theft from the right people for the right reasons is worth defending, but it's something that's generally bad where there are sometimes excuses, not something that is generally good. Every society I'm aware of (certainly every modern society) views stealing as bad, they just define what one can legitimately own in different ways. Ordinary peolple are just not going to come around to "steal whatever for whatever reason, hell yeah," but you see that attitude pop up on the left somewhat frequently. It's not a good spot for scorching hot takes.
I dunno. I feel there is some utility in just denying the importance of stuff. Liberals are in the reddit are thread coming up with saw traps they would make for people that touch their stuff. No one that is healthy and well adjusted is gonna do this. Whatever is going on in the life of the bike theif is a bigger issue than the person that gets their stolen bike in the news. I had a bike stolen. It sucked. I never lived a life where stealing bikes seems like an important opportunity though. So I do gotta keep things in perspective.
Except we should always support the stealing from (insured anyway) businesses. I don’t really feel any concern if a rich person gets a small amount of their stuff (that they can easily replace anyway) stolen.
In your ideal leftist society, would stealing be legal? Of course not -- nor has it been legal in any AES state. Generally speaking, it's bad. The vast majority of people think so now and will continue to think so even if there's a significant leftward shift in society.
Our default response to stealing, then, shouldn't be "hell yeah." People don't like getting ripped off and stealing isn't socialism. It's fine to cheer stealing from the right people for the right reasons, but that's not everything.
This isn’t a socialist society. This bike isn’t being stolen in a socialist society that provides for them. This is stealing from a rich bastard in a capitalist society. Those are two totally different things. What AES states do isn’t relevant as this isn’t occurring in an AES state