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The End of The Chocolate Thief Saga · The Slippery Slope

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  I still think it's one of the funniest things that you go and
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  set up a sting. Oh, putting in covert cameras
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  without and you don't even realize.
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  Or maybe if I'm going to actually take it to court, I
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  need to have a warrant? So people have asked what
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  happened to the chocolate thief, the Queensland police officer.
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  Chocolate thief. You know $36 worth of think
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  chocolates and chips and Vicky's or whatever from the social club
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  and that he's taking. He's taken the he's taken the
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  snacks without ticking it up for the Social Club, obviously, just
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  to refresh your memory, we'll go through a couple of videos just
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  so you remember what I'm talking about.
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  It's still one of the funniest things I've heard.
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  Anyway, check this out. Senior Constable Thomas Patton
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  charged with pinching snacks from the social club at Long
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  Reach police station, $36 worth of chocolate, soft drink and ice
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  cream allegedly taken without being ticked off on the IOU.
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  Now, did you see that a little one of these little signs up
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  there that said stealing is a sin?
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  Which I do agree with 100%. Stealing.
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  Thou shalt not steal. It's one of the 10 commandments.
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  Just seems a little ironic that it goes.
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  It's in a sign inside the police station.
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  Sheet Mr. Patton. Intends to defend the
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  allegation. It was an elaborate sting for
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  the alleged petty crime. Colleagues set up covert cameras
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  to catch one of their own they didn't have.
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  The required warrant. Is Long Reach police station a
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  toxic workplace? Oh OK, besides the fact I have
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  to overlook the fact that this falls a redhead.
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  Ohh. Anyway, I'll I'll forget that
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  do. You ever take from the snack
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  wall and not pay? Yeah, 100%.
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  Where chips are illegally sold separately and swiped without
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  payment. So of course there's that issue
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  as well. So the two things with this
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  case, the warrant, they didn't have a warrant, They needed a
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  warrant Inside a police station. You it's not just because since
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  the police but anyway you need a warrant obviously and these
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  packets of chips these products that they were selling they
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  always have the notice the little label on the on the
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  bigger packets I think is that you know not to be sold not for
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  individual sale. So technically are they not even
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  technically is it they're illegally.
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  They're being sold illegally, which you know that that goes on
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  throughout Australia, everywhere.
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  It's always gone on in canteens all over, all over Australia.
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  So what's the final outcome? This headline, which came out
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  from the Korea Mail and it came out a while ago, I just, I read
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  it and thought, crikey, it's just fizzled out basically
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  exactly what they said. Everything that's wrong with QPS
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  cops $36 chocolate theft case fizzles out.
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  So charge of theft against an officer who took $36.00 of
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  convictionary from Station social club without pain that is
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  now has now been dropped, has been slammed by union by the
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  union as a perfect example of everything that is wrong with
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  the Queensland Police Service. So yeah, it just like I said
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  poor leadership within the Q, PS:.
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  QPS and not training. They're not raising up leaders,
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  they're raising up managers to manage situations, and this
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  situation has been managed very, very poorly, so the whole thing
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  has just been dropped. Q PS:.
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  In this situation has just come out looking like a bit of a
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  joke. Very unfortunate for them.
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  I still think it's one of the funniest things that you go and
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  set up a sting. Oh, putting in covert cameras
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  without and you don't even realize.
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  Well, maybe if I'm going to actually take it to court, I
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  need to have a warrant. Oh, it's the funniest thing I've
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  heard. Oh, you gotta laugh sometimes.
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  Anyway, catch you later, they