Joey Garcia My favorite columnist, relationships-genius Joey Garcia who writes "Ask Joey" for the Sacramento News & Review , has posted a follow-up Q&A on the matter of a homeless person shoplifting, in the latest edition of the tabloid-size weekly. In her Dec. 2 column , Joey offered advice to a person who witnessed a homeless woman shoplifting in a grocery store. Joey's advice was spot-on right, I thought and think: be compassionate toward the homeless woman, but also alert the store owner or manager that a theft had been attempted. [I wrote about that earlier column a month ago.] In Joey's column in the current, Dec. 30, edition of the SN&R , a homeless person writes in, saying that "[i]f someone is shoplifting in front of you, it's none of your business." This argument is justified, politically, thus: "[I]f the store is part of a corporation that rakes in money from tax breaks, who cares? They're ripping us all off....
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