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It doesn't make you at all different from everybody else if you're the kind of person that likes money. And even if you don't necessarily like it that much, you still find it hard to part ways with it.
Somebody once told me that when he has no money in his pockets, he feels stupid. Not awkward or anything else, but stupid. Well, he did tell me that right after I confessed to not having a dime on me, so that was a bit awkward in itself, but if you think about it, he was right. You do feel extremely insecure knowing that should something unforeseen come up that required some cash, you'd be helpless because your wallet is empty.
Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, money and the things we'd do for it. Well, different people draw the line in different places, and that's why we have muggers, robbers, and thieves. But the idea of theft has so many nuances for some that they might go to church on Sunday and steal something on the way back home, simply because in their mind, they did nothing wrong.
As a general rule of thumb, stealing is when you take something that isn't yours. But choosing not to give somebody something that's rightfully theirs is essentially the same thing. Unfortunately, this idea is way too philosophical for some to comprehend.
Take this truck driver from Florida for example. He drove his tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge at about 7:15 pm on Wednesday evening. Normally, that would require him to pay a toll of $126 without E-ZPass, says NJ.com. Is that a lot? Is that too much? Maybe, or maybe not, but that's not the idea. You don't want to pay, you go another way - it's as simple as that. If you make the choice of using the bridge, then you have to play by the rules and pay the toll.
Our man - 41-years-old Javier Marte - had different ideas. He rigged his front plate with a hinge and a fishing line that ran all the way up to his cabin. As he approached the toll booth and the security cameras, he pulled on the line and folded the number plate up, so that it couldn't be seen. After passing through the automated checkpoint, he released the line and everything went back to normal.
Finding ways to hide your plate temporarily isn't very difficult - his technique wouldn't have seemed out of place in a Flinstones movie, after all - finding the motivation to do it, on the other hand, requires a certain type of character. His little stunt, however, earned him charges of tampering with public records and theft of services, as well as possession/manufacture of burglars tools.
Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, money and the things we'd do for it. Well, different people draw the line in different places, and that's why we have muggers, robbers, and thieves. But the idea of theft has so many nuances for some that they might go to church on Sunday and steal something on the way back home, simply because in their mind, they did nothing wrong.
As a general rule of thumb, stealing is when you take something that isn't yours. But choosing not to give somebody something that's rightfully theirs is essentially the same thing. Unfortunately, this idea is way too philosophical for some to comprehend.
Take this truck driver from Florida for example. He drove his tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge at about 7:15 pm on Wednesday evening. Normally, that would require him to pay a toll of $126 without E-ZPass, says NJ.com. Is that a lot? Is that too much? Maybe, or maybe not, but that's not the idea. You don't want to pay, you go another way - it's as simple as that. If you make the choice of using the bridge, then you have to play by the rules and pay the toll.
Our man - 41-years-old Javier Marte - had different ideas. He rigged his front plate with a hinge and a fishing line that ran all the way up to his cabin. As he approached the toll booth and the security cameras, he pulled on the line and folded the number plate up, so that it couldn't be seen. After passing through the automated checkpoint, he released the line and everything went back to normal.
Finding ways to hide your plate temporarily isn't very difficult - his technique wouldn't have seemed out of place in a Flinstones movie, after all - finding the motivation to do it, on the other hand, requires a certain type of character. His little stunt, however, earned him charges of tampering with public records and theft of services, as well as possession/manufacture of burglars tools.
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