[Split Thread] Appropriate legal responses to shoplifting

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Originally Posted by Parsman (Post 14038392) I shoplifted a chocolate bar. The shop owner wants to press charges, but 20 of my friends have got together and threatened to beat up the shop owner and vandalise the whole shopping street if the case goes ahead, so it should be dropped for the sake of peace? That seems to be what is being argued here, if on a somewhat larger scale.

Analogies aside, that's literally what's being argued about shoplifting in some jurisdictions.

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