Time and Punishment

Man, I'm so pissed off.

Dear editors,

I would like to hear an explanation from our judiciary as to how one
person can be sentenced to a token five days' imprisonment for
stealing several hundred ringgit, while another languishes for four
months for stealing spare change ("Man jailed for five days and fined
for stealing cheque" and Satay skewers and popsickle[sic] stick used to steal coins from public phone, 22 February). Theft is not simply
theft - one could easily argue that the dispatch rider's crime was
more serious based not only on the amount, but also that he caused
trouble for his employer and took money that he, as a paid employee,
did not need. I don't see how you can call those sentences justice.

Yours sincerely,

Those magistrates are pigs. Someone passed money under the table for the first guy. But the beggar? The pocket change he prised out of the phone isn't getting him anywhere.