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Weight challenged Luke never stole anyone’s lunch again. Job done !
If there’s any truth to the story then Fat Luke would have needed to know the sandwich rather than anything else he’d eaten in the last 24 hours was what had caused the illness, and also know that the illness had been caused deliberately by the poster for it to have had any effect on his future sandwich habits
The outcome of that would not be ‘both parties continued the work in the same jobs happily ever after with one of them being more respectful of sandwiches.’
I’ll take “things that never happened” for 500, please Alex
Aye, pictures or...
Aye, pictures or…
Pictures of what?
Fat Luke bent over like a greyhound, shiting through the eye of a needle?
No thanks.
And what if it had been picolax liberally sprinkled?
Advice for any Medical Students/soon-to-be-FY1 Doctors who may be on here. When Black Wednesday rolls around, if you find yourself on a ward/unit with easy access to Picolax, for your own good, don't just help yourself to the nursing staff's food.
There is still no evidence that either Luke stole the sandwich, or if he did that the sandwich caused his problems.
You are all making assumptions, non of which would be considered anything other than circumstantial.
Now if Luke had admitted to the theft, and the sandwich could definitely be proven to have caused his illness that might be a different matter. But any defence lawyer would quite rightly ask what else had this admitted thief taken that could have caused his problem.
If I had knowingly released poisoned sandwiches into the wild (or, a communal fridge), Facebook would not be top of my list of places where I would write a confession.
Just saying.
Also, correlation not causation.
Sounds like BS, how hard would it have been to keep an eye on the fridge at lunchtime and spot the sarnie thief redhanded
So a question to the he got what he derved camp
If I own a wood and I'm annoyed that people are damaging it by cyling in it. Can I set out to harm people using my trails? My wood contains no Bridleways? Logs round blind corners, wires across trails egtc?
I read about one where the owner labelled their food as poison and the thief ate it anyway. That makes it a lot funnier.
This one is taking it too far. Maybe a mild dose of laxative or something unpleasant in the sandwich, not actively trying to kill the thief.
Logs round blind corners,
"I didn't realise people would crash into them!"
wires across trails egtc?
Rather tougher to make the same argument
I do not see a crime. It's not administration of a poison as the sandwich owner did not make the thief eat it. It not someone selling poisoned food
It's going to far morally for sure but I don't see a crime
*makes TJ a sandwich
Probably a made up story anyway...
Is this not a form of entrapping? IANAL, a quick google suggests it’s a grey area.
On the other hand, running 240volts through a metal door handle to deter someone gaining entry...? Asking for a friend obvz.
The difference to cokies case is knowledge of the identity of the victim.
I suspect that would weaken the likelihood of it being criminal but it would take a proper lawyer to know (and I'm not going to pretend I know English criminal law!)
I say it all depends if they person who having their food nicked, tried/asked/labeled/remind people (fat luke) before hand to stop taking food that does not belong to them.
If warns where give, well I say fat Luke's issue!
No warning I think v harsh and bit over the top.
....and bit over the top.
It is indeed.
If people are going to make up stories on Facebook to make themselves look interesting, at least make it believable.
The flourish of calling the imaginary food thief “fat” Luke was not necessary. Dead giveaway 👍😂
It’s going to far morally for sure but I don’t see a crime
Because the sandwich owner knew someone else was almost certainly going to eat it, s/he knew someone would suffer as a result of his/her actions.
It's just like putting wires on cheeky MTB trails.
It’s just like putting wires on cheeky MTB trails.
What goes missing when a person rides a bicycle on a footpath?
Replace the rancid chicken with a smear of that morning's ablutions disguised with a healthy dollop of bransons' and replace the night in hospital with smug glee and planning what the fat git can be enticed to eat next. Would that pass the pass the moral and legal threshold any easier? Just asking like.
It's a crime, the intent was to cause physical harm... Rather than simply catch a petty thief.
I'd also have to question the "poisoners" logic, if the motivation was to cause the sandwich bandit embarrassment and ideally identify them, then either hot sauce (already suggested) or maybe rigging the sandwich with some sort of edible dye would have been more proportionate options...
As it is (assuming its actually real) he's simply out-douched a moderate douchebag...
I say it all depends if they person who having their food nicked, tried/asked/labeled/remind people (fat luke) before hand to stop taking food that does not belong to them.
I'm curious here as to what form this notification might take. I can't immediately envisage a scenario where someone is stealing food and a post-it on the fridge going "please don't steal food" is going to illicit a response of "well shit, I had no idea, you should've said something earlier!"
My own slightly less Jeopardy-and-lawsuits version of this tale:
In my last place of work, we had communal coffee, milk etc but everything else in the kitchen cupboards was employees' own food. I brought in a bunch of stuff: salt, vinegar, ketchup, butter, that sort of thing and stashed it in a far corner.
I don't know if it was a cultural thing or just one person, but people seemed to think it was fair game to help themselves. Now, I'm not petty enough to begrudge anyone a blob of ketchup on their chips or a smear of butter on their toast of a morning, but when I buy a half kilo tub of butter and get four slices out it myself before I find an empty tub in the fridge one morning (because who even does that and puts it back in the fridge so that I don't even know that it needs replacing?!), we're firmly into "taking the piss" territory.
I also had a bottle of extra hot sriracha sauce on the go. So one day on encountering yet another empty ketchup bottle that I'd used four times, I decanted the Sriracha into the now empty ketchup bottle and tipped the replacement ketchup into the vacated Sriracha bottle. Oddly enough, the problem went away quite quickly after that.
There was an infamous case in the UK years ago,maybe pre internet iirc when a worker sick of someone stealing his cocoa cola from the works' fridge topped his bottle up with caustic soda.The fridge thief drank it and suffered terrible life changing injuries,losing half of his throat and gullet and almost died.The culprit got a gaol sentence,6 years or so.The judge was particularly unhappy that even when the victim was writhing on the floor the perpetrator did nothing and didn't even tell the emergency services the cause.
It's intent to cause harm, I can't see it not being an offence of some sort.
Intent is the key thing.
Friend of mine had the same issue, someone was nicking people's lunches out of the shared fridge ( there were 2 or 3 small companies in the same building with shared kitchen areas) . After they set up a cheap ip camera in a descrete location overlooking the fridge, caught them in the act.
The culprit was never seen again once they were confronted (not by the actual footage) by the suggestion they were on footage.
No one was harmed.
Might be a thoughtless intent to cause thinking twice.
I’m struggling to understand why you’d make a fancy sandwich and then rub chicken on it. That’s a lot of effort right there. I would’ve just used Tesco own brand water ham and made it look enticing with salad and some kind of dressing. Fat Luke works in sales, that’s a far worse crime than food theft.
It’s not a solution I’d favour for that sort of behaviour, I’d go for the nuclear option. I have a bunch of Carolina Reaper chillis, it’s remarkable how much extra heat is added to a large amount of chilli from a tiny amount of Reaper diced into powder...