A while back I had a whole bunch of blog posts on crimes I thought people should be allowed to get away with, here is an addition to that series. (from
here)
The story simultaneously repulses me and makes me happy. If somebody who is desperate enough to be breaking into the houses of others can give up what they were essentially risking their life for (money) in order to correct a wrong like this then maybe there is hope for society after all.
If it was me then I'd have removed the digital tape from the camera and left only that on the church doorsteps. Just sayin'. I may have morals but I'm not giving back the fruits of my nightly labour unnecessarily.
I'm additionally intrigued by the child-pornographer's name, could it possibly be the same William Mitchell as the guy sending around incoherent emails about how the big bang was wrong?
There is something too poetic about that for it to be true.
Maybe.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — A Red Deer man has been jailed after an outraged burglar spotted massive amounts of child pornography on his computer and called police.
William Mitchell, who pleaded guilty earlier this year in Red Deer provincial court, was charged in October 2005 after RCMP, acting on an anonymous tip, searched his home. An agreed statement says that someone had broken into Mitchell’s residence and taken a video camera. The camera, the tipster said, had images of child pornography and would be left on the steps of a church.
Police retrieved the camera and soon realized the burglar had videotaped a computer monitor displaying images of child pornography.
Following the address printed on the burglar’s note, police seized computer equipment containing 13,315 pornographic images.
Mitchell will remain in jail until he is sentenced on Dec. 1.
Cpl. Greg Brown of Red Deer City RCMP said outside the court that the burglary remains unsolved. The story simultaneously repulses me and makes me happy. If somebody who is desperate enough to be breaking into the houses of others can give up what they were essentially risking their life for (money) in order to correct a wrong like this then maybe there is hope for society after all.
If it was me then I'd have removed the digital tape from the camera and left only that on the church doorsteps. Just sayin'. I may have morals but I'm not giving back the fruits of my nightly labour unnecessarily.
I'm additionally intrigued by the child-pornographer's name, could it possibly be the same William Mitchell as the guy sending around incoherent emails about how the big bang was wrong?
There is something too poetic about that for it to be true.
Maybe.
