80% of retail stores have said that shoplifting has increased over the past few months. About the same percentage for professionals and amateurs. Poor economy blamed for rise in shoplifting – Survey of 52 chain stores showed 84% experiencing increase in amateur crimes
It is not yet known if the now infamous shoplifting dog of Murry, Utah is a pro or an amateur. Now a few days after the fact without an arrest, it seems the dog was a pro. After all, it was caught on video and he has so far eluded arrest.
With more and more of these stories sure to be coming at us things get worse, my hopes are up that a new generation of readers will pick up one of the greatest books in classical literature, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.
The story of Jean Val Jean who suffering the poverty before the French Revolution steals a loaf of bread to feed his hungry child, is caught at the scene and promptly sentenced to 20 years rowing in the bowels of French Warship.
After his release, poor paperwork causes him to be hounded for another 20 years through the French countryside and the sewers of Paris during the Revolution by the unrelenting Inspector Jarvet who is dead set on sending him back to prison, the rule of law.
Warning Spoiler [The chances of anyone under 50 reading this book, or any such book for that matter, are about nil]
Victor Hugo ends his 2000 page epic chase with the two men finally confronting each other on a bridge over the Seine River in Paris. Val Jean’s life is recounted as a long series of good deeds while Jarvet recounts his life of living the mindless authority of the letter of the law. Val Jean walks into the sunset a free and content man while Jarvet realizes his life was wasted and jumps to his death.
