Petty theft costing retailers millions in 1970 | RetroFocus

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  • čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
  • Children are asked if they would ever steal anything. The program goes on to look at the cost of opportunistic theft to businesses.
    This is an excerpt from Four Corners: "Take it or Leave it" which aired on 5th September 1970.
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Komentáře • 53

  • @aussie8114
    @aussie8114 Před 5 lety +23

    So if you run out of caps for your cap gun and you’ve already spent the $10 you stole from your dads wallet then you don’t really have much choice but to steal them 🤔

  • @bravequeen77
    @bravequeen77 Před 5 lety +17

    Yea whenever something happen better ask kids. 😂😂😂
    Kids knows everything 😂😂😂

  • @Mortimer_Duke
    @Mortimer_Duke Před 5 lety +2

    Patrons stealing bar glasses and ashtrays? Good grief. What a heap of bogans.

  • @Totalchaos0228
    @Totalchaos0228 Před 5 lety +7

    The kids in the park at the beginning are so cute!!

  • @sbug2705
    @sbug2705 Před 5 lety +8

    Lol I was born in 1970!

  • @user-rn3bb3dj4p
    @user-rn3bb3dj4p Před 5 lety +6

    Jeez I thought ppl from back in the day were more honest.

    • @kristinburton4953
      @kristinburton4953 Před 5 lety +3

      No way, people have always been, well, people.

    • @closertothetruth9209
      @closertothetruth9209 Před 5 lety +3

      human nature , but today is far worse in many many aspects , kids that young today are watching things on smart phones that are for adults only and then doing it at school etc , my freind who works at schools tells me all about it and how shocked he was at what kids were up to , when i worked in security in the early 2000,s kids were selling herion etc on public trains throughout perth i saw it, their parents and family encouraged them being too young to be charged and that was just the tip of the iceberg and its worse now .

    • @lauralaura2293
      @lauralaura2293 Před 5 lety

      Another myth...🙂

    • @Mikathedog100
      @Mikathedog100 Před 4 lety +1

      @@closertothetruth9209 the kids selling drugs thing would have existed back then too. Although, essentially heroin and speed were so readily available from the shelves of a pharmacy, that there was less need for more powerful drugs.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 Před 3 lety

      Hear about it more these days I guess ….. larger population these days more Thevs but same per capater

  • @gregoryferber3231
    @gregoryferber3231 Před 3 lety

    "You cant shot them, you cant abuse them if they need a plastic flower"
    America: Hold my beer.

  • @ivareskesner2019
    @ivareskesner2019 Před 5 lety +5

    Well if it's costing them millions then it's not so petty, is it?

    • @Thindorama
      @Thindorama Před 4 lety

      Ivares Kesner Each act of theft is petty I think.

  • @MarkSmith-ud4sd
    @MarkSmith-ud4sd Před 3 lety

    What's the name of that classic instrumental during the game of pool scene.

  • @billmago7991
    @billmago7991 Před rokem +1

    Oh well we are a nation of convicts

  • @notreallyhere8597
    @notreallyhere8597 Před 3 lety +1

    Well most of us are convict dependants

  • @RyanMaiden89
    @RyanMaiden89 Před 3 lety +1

    That $50 fine at 2:54 is equivalent to $593.86 today.

  • @barrythomas6429
    @barrythomas6429 Před 5 lety +5

    Little dobbers !!!!

  • @aintnoslice3422
    @aintnoslice3422 Před 5 lety +7

    always interesting, how shit the past really was once you scratch the surface.

    • @64roo
      @64roo Před 4 lety

      Simpler times

    • @jc-cs9tv
      @jc-cs9tv Před 2 lety

      Those incidents only declined in frequency to now because of lowering of testosterone levels among young males in general. People were more intelligent and morally cognent then, the youth.

    • @andrewlilley3660
      @andrewlilley3660 Před 2 lety +1

      Really, they were a lot better than now!

    • @iMatti00
      @iMatti00 Před 8 měsíci

      A lot of people think things were better in the past because when they were younger they didn’t realize how bad they were. Like people say child molestation is worse now, and that’s false. Or they say murder is worse now, that’s really false. Before the pandemic crime rate has been going down every single year for 50 years. He got better and better, but during that entire time people mentally thought it was actually getting worse and worse. That’s because people operate off of the motion and not off of fact.
      But trying to convince somebody of that too often is like arguing with a three year old.

  • @thenegativoneify
    @thenegativoneify Před 2 lety +1

    He stole thongs?

  • @arrowb3408
    @arrowb3408 Před 3 lety

    That little girl was so cute and the other two boys, though they are already grandparents. Say who never had been young once,eih?

  • @scottmorrison466
    @scottmorrison466 Před 4 lety +1

    Less trees and more people now.

  • @rogermouton2273
    @rogermouton2273 Před 5 lety +2

    It's not as bad today, but I'd say it's only because of better security. People are no better.

  • @letsseeif
    @letsseeif Před 3 lety

    And these people vote.

  • @turboredcart
    @turboredcart Před 5 lety +1

    no one wants that old junk

  • @ironsword7
    @ironsword7 Před 3 lety

    Proverbs 22:6 KJV
    Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

    • @jc-cs9tv
      @jc-cs9tv Před 2 lety

      Based bible quotations referencer commenter.

    • @iMatti00
      @iMatti00 Před 8 měsíci

      This was the most ridiculous part of the video. There are so many parents who have great children and also horrible children the same time. All raised the same way. So I guess the Bible is wrong.
      And sorry, the crap like this is why I probably see people and CZcams always blaming the parents anytime a child does anything wrong.

  • @johnd3982
    @johnd3982 Před 5 lety

    McDonald’s don’t give napkins anymore with my takeaway so I’ll take some extra for the next drive through order.

  • @scottmorrison466
    @scottmorrison466 Před 4 lety +1

    A Sydney home was only $50,000.

    • @qorah-3699
      @qorah-3699 Před 4 lety +2

      Now it can go up to 1.2 million for a shit house built in the 60s

    • @jc-cs9tv
      @jc-cs9tv Před 2 lety

      AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @billmago7991
      @billmago7991 Před rokem

      In 1970 you could buy a house in Asquith for $9000

    • @childrensorg856
      @childrensorg856 Před rokem

      And the weekly pay was what? $40.

    • @iMatti00
      @iMatti00 Před 8 měsíci

      But the wages or much less than as well. In today’s dollars the average person earned about three dollars an hour according to the website I found. That’s based on today’s rates. What they were actually making in 1970s dollars was roughly $.50 an hour.
      But imagine everything we have in life that they did not have them. Including good refrigerators and air conditioners and medical care. Some thing about humans seems to make us want to believe the past was so great and also that the present is so horrible.

  • @creatifetudes8553
    @creatifetudes8553 Před 5 lety

    😏