Steve Haywood wrote: > 2009/2/25 Adrian Stott <[email protected]> > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> In a message dated 24/02/2009 15:49:59 GMT Standard Time, >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>> What do you do in response to that sort of thing? >>> >>> AFAIA It's the local authority's responsibility to ensure the stores do >> not >>> allow trolleys to be dumped anywhere they shouldn't. >> Yeah, sure. Always sensible to blame the victim. He's easy to find. >> >> Hasn't it occurred to you that, before a cart is dumped, it first has >> to be *stolen* from a supermarket? So where are the suggestions for >> prosecuting the thieves (who are also the litterers)? >> >> But there you go. Pubs are the cause of binge drinking, soccer teams >> are the cause of hooliganism, schools are the cause of oikdom ... >> > > If a thief breaks into my house and steals from me, the police have a > problem. If I consistently leave my door open so that thieves walk in, I > have a problem. I know one thing for certain: the police won't be interested > in it. > > You're shooting from the hip again, Adrian. Take a couple of asprin. Sit > down in a quiet room.
I think the answer is somewhere in between. If you leave your keys in your car and someone steals it and uses it in a ram raid, then clearly the thief is a villain, but you have some responsibility as well. That feels much more like the supermarket's position. The supermarket has brought a hazard to navigation into the vicinity of the canal. They ought to bear some responsibility for that.
