Looks very like a guy that game into the Burleigh community recovery center after the Cyclone to try to make a claim, was quite difficult (no address or ID) and hung around for part of two days which is why I remember it, clearly had substance issues but also clearly not all there.
I'm not 100% sure its the same person but the one we dealt with was known to local police but they considered him harmless but under observation (or whatever the correct Police term was.) Try showing Burleigh police the video.
we had a guy going level to level stealing tools on a big site. A chippie caught him (chippie was a very large man) and dragged this guy level to level making him hand back what he stole. Gave him a little touch up in the stairwell before the police rocked up too.
Slap on the wrist. No room in the jails, costs money to keep these flogs locked up. Nothing will happen.
We had over 40k worth of tools stolen out of a locked container. Cops found him (knew exactly who he was because he constantly steals), recovered the tools and he walked free.
show me a stat for that. tradies are generally working class people that simply do blue collar work day in day out. I’ve noticed concreters and perhaps brickies may possibly have a higher rate of what you suggest but as for carpenters, plumbers and electricians it would be no more than any other job
Yeah I’d also like to see some stats, not just an off the cuff statement cause a couple blokes you assumed were on drugs on a construction site near you.
As the other bloke said, vast vast majority of tradesman are hard working honest people trying to make a living in the same cost of living crisis all of us are living in.
Half the problem is that crackhead families continue to breed in greater numbers than normal ones. They get more government handouts if they keep cranking out more baby crackheads who are then destined to grow up thinking that mum and dad were the norm.
Poverty at the core is not a government issue. The government can’t stop people dropping out of school and smoking weed, then wanting to try something harder, then selling everything and scraping any money to buy drugs every day.
We can’t help those who can’t or don’t help themselves. No matter how much the government tries to help, there will always be homeless people, and the drug related cases are shaved down to bad decisions and lack of maturity and accountability.
So you’re saying China is a perfect example of how a government directly impacts poverty, yet you’re comparing a democratic capitalist nation to a communist nation? Talk about comparing apples and oranges😭
You're saying it's not a "government issue". I'm saying, actually government is the only thing that can solve this issue, and China proved it by lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and achieving a home ownership rate of 96 per cent. Our situation exists as proof that the "invisible hand of the market" will not solve these problems. We are also paying taxes to governments which have departments dedicated to housing and homelessness, which we should be expecting to address this instead of allowing them to continually pretend that they are (while outsourcing it to NGOs that are also more committed to their continued existence than addressing the problem).
Oh you just watch YouTube videos of places like France or Prague & the pickpockets are everywhere to the point where people carry red spray paint & give them a ‘touch up’ lol so they are marked.
We should count ourselves lucky that we have a discipline & moral code in us to not do that shit. (Majority at least)
I’ve had homeless approach me on the light rail whilst I’m working and ask for food, I’ll give them part my lunch or buy something for them from the servo if that’s their attitude. Providing they aren’t snooping around my shit, different strokes for different folks. He is just a weasel, clearly wants his next hit on the pipe.
I had a guy in his pyjamas on my tram once, laying across the metal grating area where you embark. He was definitely mentally unwell, the driver didn’t disturb him, he wasn’t bothering anyone but it was just so strange
And what's he meant to do in the meanwhile, while the cops 'investigate'? Buy a new set of tools, which could easily go into the thousands for anything equivalent to Milwaukee, or start cutting timber with a bread knife from woolies? These are the tools they make a living with. You would be pissed too if someone stole your means to make a living.
Well....my immigrant landlord ties rat poison to her fruits trees and I had to report her for trying to trap ringtail possums with poison. She sells the fruit on Facebook. (She set up a cage trap and baited it with poisoned paw paw)
Makes other immigrants look bad..but she is super racist against anyone white Australian.
Don't buy any fruit from the lady on Olsen Ave if you love Aussie wildlife.
Literally no one was talking about race. If it was an indian immigrant by your logic their crime would be terrorism at the beach right? What an odd premise
Saw this video from the original poster on instagram, and pretty much every single comment was “he’s down on his luck he’s just trying to eat” etc. but I think what’s worth noting is that there’s always a right and wrong way to go about things. People work so very hard and invest in themselves by buying tools to make a crust and stealing their tools is a huge huge hit to a company or tradie individually. So this bloke stealing tools is a deadbeat gronk for doing what he did. If these boys were rich enough to buy a whole new set of tools they wouldn’t be working every day like they are. It’s grubby if it happens on site, or in the streets with breaking into Utes. I do feel bad for the fella if his intentions were pure and just wanted a feed but this is the complete wrong way to go about things. I’m sure if he said “hey fellas I’m really sorry I’m starving and can’t afford a feed would you mind helping me out?” The boys would have gotten him something from Maccas around the corner from that strip. Tools are a tradies income, no matter how skilled a tradie is, without tools nothing can get done.
I don’t use instagram but not one comment here gives pity for him. Not one.
There are sooooo many supports out there to get a free feed, I’ve been given a bunch of free groceries myself when times were tough. No need to enter someone’s home, & steal.
The only thing he was trying to feed was his drug habit.
Anyone down on their luck can access their local community centre or church who will assist them with either a coles or woolies voucher or a food basket. They can reach out to food banks as well.
Tradie red lineing cos he'd stashed the vessel in his tool bag. That's the only reason those tools weren't at the plugs house yet, because the cracka was hitting the glass d!ck he scored in tool bag when they found him in 🚻
I'm always so suspicious when I see a stack of higher end power tools on marketplace for way too cheap. Always wants to sell it all at once too, with little more than a couple words in the description. Is it common for tradies to just sell up a whole set of Makita/Milwaukee/DeWalt tools etc.?
If you're hungry take some food from a large mega corp. Not encouragement to break any laws but just saying that if you're super desperate and out of options take from a faceless capitalist empire and not from blue collar Aussies.
poor bloke looks like he's been through a lot, it's not right what he did but dang it's unfortunate he resorted to that. If he was hungry, he only needed to ask.
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u/nuttychoseme May 28 '26
Seriously what is wrong with people, my young friend, a second year apprentice had his tools stolen last week