{"id":3385,"date":"2007-09-15T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/pursesnatching-isnt-a-crime-in.html"},"modified":"2007-09-15T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T09:01:00","slug":"pursesnatching-isnt-a-crime-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/pursesnatching-isnt-a-crime-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Purse-snatching isn’t a crime in Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman is waiting in line at Starbucks, her purse is snatched<\/a> and she pursues the criminal getting her bag back. The officer doesn’t realize that it’s a crime even if the victim gets her property back. Unbelievable! Even if she doesn’t know the law, shouldn’t she at least have enough common sense to know that theft is against the law?<\/p>\n

A mother who had her bag snatched was told by police it was not a crime – because she chased after the thief and won her property back.
\nSam McAlister was queueing in a coffee shop with her ten-month-old son when a woman grabbed the bag from the back of the pushchair as an accomplice distracted her.
\nMiss McAlister, 34, left her child with staff at the Starbucks cafe, whom she knew well, and set off in pursuit of the woman.
\nShe confronted the thief in a nearby shop and was eventually reunited with her bag after a struggle.
\nBut when she went to a police station to report the crime, she was told by an officer behind the desk that it was not a crime because she had got the bag back.
\nIt was only when the former criminal barrister used her knowledge of the law that the case was passed on to a senior officer who decided to investigate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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