Tesco and the criminally damaged tube of Pringles

Grayson · 07-09-2018 06:01PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

people who take products off the shelf and eat them in supermarkets are trash

I'd add and don't pay for them. I often see mothers scanning through some container of sweets that they gave to the kids to keep them busy.
On the other hand you have the people who seem to think they can grab a bag of pic n mix to nibble as they go around the place.

freshpopcorn · 07-09-2018 06:27PM

Grayson wrote: »

I'd add and don't pay for them. I often see mothers scanning through some container of sweets that they gave to the kids to keep them busy.
On the other hand you have the people who seem to think they can grab a bag of pic n mix to nibble as they go around the place.

I always feel sorry for the staff at the self-service in Tesco when the pyjama brigade with children come in.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-09-2018 06:31PM

McDonagh

07-09-2018 06:35PM

Tesco can't let everyone come in & eat for free. It all adds up, & for all we know, maybe this is the only thing they could prove.....

AtomicHorror · 07-09-2018 06:35PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I always feel sorry for the staff at the self-service in Tesco when the pyjama brigade with children come in.

Plenty of parents do the same, dressed in day clothes. Much better than dealing with a cranky infant in a supermarket.

Seth Brundle · 07-09-2018 06:42PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

McDonagh

Is she related to the Supermacs owner by any chance?

Pac1Man · 07-09-2018 06:42PM

Disappointing OP. I thought this was a title of a new Harry Potter book.

freshpopcorn · 07-09-2018 06:42PM

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Plenty of parents do the same, dressed in day clothes. Much better than dealing with a cranky infant in a supermarket.

I have no issue with what people wear shopping. It's one thing I don't care a thing about. I just find the pajama brigade to be the worst offenders for distracting the staff and stealing stock.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-09-2018 06:43PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Is she related to the Supermacs owner by any chance?

Probably

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 06:44PM

Our legal system is a joke. We sent a man to jail for 6 years for importing garlic. This went to court over a tin of pringles.

Tom humphries only got a couple of years for buggering a kid.

Madness i say.

TomOnBoard · 07-09-2018 07:16PM

Giraffe Box wrote: »

€1.50 is tremendously good value for a 200g tube of Pringles, they're €2 in my local Tesco.

Yeah, but yours' are sealed...

satguy · 07-09-2018 07:39PM

A future mother of 7 no doubt, and Tesco are bang on in pushing this. Some people think they can do what they want.

While we fools follow the rule of law and pay taxes to pay for all this free legal aid.

Heckler · 07-09-2018 07:40PM

What a charming family. Must be a treat living in 2 Inchera close. Or anywhere in Inchera Close for that matter.

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 07:40PM

So now we are saying that when a mother gives her child a bread roll or something in tesco to keep them happy they should be prosecuted.

Heckler · 07-09-2018 07:42PM

smelly sock wrote: »

So now we are saying that when a mother gives her child a bread roll or something in tesco to keep them happy they should be prosecuted.

Get real ffs.

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 07:43PM

Heckler wrote: »

Get real ffs.

I am though. Maybe tesco need to get real.

TomOnBoard · 07-09-2018 07:46PM

smelly sock wrote: »

So now we are saying that when a mother gives her child a bread roll or something in tesco to keep them happy they should be prosecuted.

By what right should a mother steal a bread roll in the first place? 'To keep them happy' justifies it? Great life training for the child.. Not!

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 07:48PM

TomOnBoard wrote: »

By what right should a mother steal a bread roll in the first place? 'To keep them happy' justifies it? Great life training for the child.. Not!

Yep. The twitching blinds brigade are out in force on this one.

Your Face · 07-09-2018 07:50PM

Tesco delivers.

TomOnBoard · 07-09-2018 07:52PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Yep. The twitching blinds brigade are out in force on this one.

Twitching blinds are the foundation of modern Neighbourhood Watch schemes, which are needed to keep scum-sucking robbing scrotes away from pinching anything they see just to 'keep them happy' - a life practice that started with bread rolls in a Tesco trolley!!

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 07:54PM

TomOnBoard wrote: »

Twitching blinds are the foundation of modern Neighbourhood Watch schemes, which are needed to keep scum-sucking robbing scrotes away from pinching anything they see just to 'keep them happy' - a life practice that started with bread rolls in a Tesco trolley!!

Or to just be a nosey git.

freshpopcorn · 07-09-2018 07:56PM

smelly sock wrote: »

So now we are saying that when a mother gives her child a bread roll or something in tesco to keep them happy they should be prosecuted.

In my local Tesco I've seen people do this countless times, eat wedges,etc but they always pay at the end and the staff don't bat an eye lid.
The only people I see going around taking bites out of things and dropping them are generally often mentioned in the court section of the newspaper.

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 08:08PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

In my local Tesco I've seen people do this countless times, eat wedges,etc but they always pay at the end and the staff don't bat an eye lid.
The only people I see going around taking bites out of things and dropping them are generally often mentioned in the court section of the newspaper.

Would you really pay that much attention to other peoples behaviour when doing your shop?

freshpopcorn · 07-09-2018 08:13PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Would you really pay that much attention to other peoples behaviour when doing your shop?

I don't know how you could miss it to be honest. Seeing parents with kids just picking things up opening them and then dropping them. Same with the pick and mix and bakeries. Hands and mouths everywhere.
When you live in a small town you generally have a good idea who people are. I just find the families who act like this in supermarkets tend to often appeal in the local district court for various offences.

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 08:18PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I don't know how you could miss it to be honest. Seeing parents with kids just picking things up opening them and then dropping them. Same with the pick and mix and bakeries. Hands and mouths everywhere.
When you live in a small town you generally have a good idea who people are. I just find the families who act like this in supermarkets tend to often appeal in the local district court for various offences.

And i find its usually people who take notice of these things and are judgemental tend to often have the real secrets to hide.

Gimme A Pound · 07-09-2018 08:22PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Our legal system is a joke. We sent a man to jail for 6 years for importing garlic. This went to court over a tin of pringles.

Tom humphries only got a couple of years for buggering a kid.

Madness i say.

A guard was involved - I think we can be confident that there is a lot more to it than just the Pringles seal.

As someone else suggested, this was probably all they could pin on her out of a litany.

I'm also confident that I or any other law abiding citizen would not end up in court with a guard present for popping a Pringles box.

Sassygirl1999 · 07-09-2018 08:24PM

Are Am Eye wrote: »

It's criminal that Pringles (The Kellogg Company) packaging is non-recyclable.

once you pop you get caught

smelly sock · 07-09-2018 08:25PM

Londyn Narrow Sunset wrote: »

A guard was involved - I think we can be confident that there is a lot more to it than just the Pringles seal.

As someone else suggested, this was probably all they could pin on her out of a litany.

I'm also confident that I or any other law abiding citizen would not end up in court with a guard present for popping a Pringles box.

Agreed. The guard would probably enter it into Pulse as 100 boxes.

AtomicHorror · 07-09-2018 08:30PM

TomOnBoard wrote: »

By what right should a mother steal a bread roll in the first place? 'To keep them happy' justifies it? Great life training for the child.. Not!

As long as they pay for it, it's probably better for everyone on balance. Nobody likes passing the same tantrum kid every aisle.

corks finest · 07-09-2018 08:34PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

A word of warning- do not pop your Pringles in Tesco or you may find yourself in the District Court on criminal damages charges :eek:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/cork-woman-denies-criminal-damage-to-150-tubeof-pringles-867318.html

A woman has refused to swallow a criminal damage charge at Cork District Court after she was accused of popping a €1.50 packet of Pringles at a local Tesco outlet almost two years ago.

Kathleen McDonagh, aged 24, of 1 Inchera Close, Mahon, Cork, denies the charge of damaging the item at Tesco, Mahon Point Shopping Centre. The case was listed for hearing yesterday before Judge Mary Dorgan. Garda Linda O’Keeffe was in court for the case yesterday as was Inspector John Deasy. The accused woman was represented on free legal aid by solicitor, Shane Collins-Daly.

The charge states that on December 27, 2016, at Tesco, Mahon Point shopping centre, in Cork District Court area she, did without lawful excuse, damage property, to wit, a foil lid on a box of Pringles partially removed, value €1.50, not resalable, belonging to Tesco shop of Mahon Point intending to damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be damaged, contrary to Section 2 (1) of the Criminal Damage Act 1991.

Bizarre case. Im just trying to add up how much this will cost the State to prosecute. Free legal aid is around €400 quid then youve a Garda and Inspector giving evidence, then the judge, solicitor in the DPP office, clerk of the court, etc. Perhaps about €1,500 all up. Is it really worth it over a €1.50 tube of Pringles?

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Tesco and the criminally damaged tube of Pringles

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