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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Since it is done under guise of a corporation, there will be zero actual consequences for the individuals involved in the theft. Nor will there be any consequences for the officers involved in violating rights.

There really needs to be consequences for blatantly manipulating courts to waste money and delay judgement.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Since it is done under guise of a corporation, there will be zero actual consequences for the individuals involved in the theft. Nor will there be any consequences for the officers involved in violating rights. There really needs to be consequences for blatantly manipulating courts to waste money and delay judgement.

That remains to be seen. Individuals absolutely can be held to account. Corporations are not pass to behave illegally.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Since it is done under guise of a corporation, there will be zero actual consequences for the individuals involved in the theft. Nor will there be any consequences for the officers involved in violating rights. There really needs to be consequences for blatantly manipulating courts to waste money and delay judgement.

That remains to be seen. Individuals absolutely can be held to account. Corporations are not pass to behave illegally.

Someone should let bigTech know about this

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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One of the saddest things about modern capitalism is that people stealing from businesses is criminalized and heavily punished but businesses stealing from people (eg. wage theft, illegal contracts, medicare/PPP fraud, and outright stealing like this case) is treated as a civil violation and almost impossible to prosecute.

The only cases of white collar crime I've seen get prosecuted is securities fraud and that's rich people stealing from other rich people.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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That is the gist of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ktgvoH4Mc's take-away (though with great pains taken to convey that he doesn't condone it). Extralegal solutions become more and more attractive the less and less just the "justice" system appears; whether it's right or not, that's just the truth of it, and I suppose we're lucky that only one of the three recent "get 'em back" instances that come to my mind involve shooting someone dead in the street. (The other two being the UNH CEO's execution and the burning of that paper warehouse.)

The novel maneuvers "Reckless" Ben Schneider took were... amusing, at the very least.

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