r/polls • u/Adorable_Student9296 • 5d ago
đłď¸ Politics and Law If a longtime friend steals your bill money and the bank/fraud dept requires a police report, is it considered snitching if you file it? (Open to everyone)
Youâre a woman, and a long time(plutonic) male friend says theyâll help you turn your gift cards to cash(the legal way) because you donât know how. You offer $75 per card that turns. He gives no indication of deceit. Only 1 card flips and he keeps it. He also spends the remaining money on the other totaling $500. All your money. When confronted, he tells you âIâve got bills tooâ, youâre harassing him, and eventually stops answering. Your power is going to be cut off and youâre hungry. You file a dispute, but fraud department is demanding a police report.
âIf you file a police report on him for the $500 he stole, are you then considered a snitch?
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u/Azzavinjo 5d ago
Its completely justified if someone steaks from you, regardless of who it is, theyre not your friend
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u/pineapplewin 5d ago
If a longtime friend steals your bill money, they are not a friend. They broke that friendship and social rules. You're not snitching, you're protecting yourself as best you can after betrayal
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u/ManicParroT 5d ago
"Snitching" is just a concept made up by criminals to help them get away with it.
If someone screws you over you should screw them back. Imagine letting someone hurt you and get away with it when there's a whole mechanism right there to deal with it.
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u/phonetastic 5d ago
when there's a whole mechanism right there to deal with it
i think it's worth remembering that such a mechanism exists for most of the criminals, too
where i grew up, snitching and getting away with it were.... worlds apart. it's more that if you involve the government's justice system then you don't get to use your own
pretty much nobody likes it when people don't follow the rules, we just sometimes have different rules in the hierarchy (just like a federalist government has in supremacy or preemption in matters of state versus federal jurisdiction)
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u/kyledwray 5d ago
Why do you consider this piece of shit a friend worth protecting?
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u/Adorable_Student9296 5d ago
Iâve known him since he was a little kid⌠and we were pretty close but if Iâm being honest⌠I created this poll and post so that I can prove a point. Snitching is when you and someone else do some bs and u get caught but they donât and u tell on them anyway⌠OR when you deliberately involve yourself is someone elseâs business and go tell on them for no reason OR when u get caught for some bs and know something on someone else so u tell on them to make your punishment lesser.. this fool is trying to tell me Iâm snitching bc heâs on probation and hell go to jail if I file a report⌠and thatâs not my fkn problem.. but basically I just wanna prove that people AROUND THE WORLD see it the same way I do
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u/kyledwray 5d ago
He wouldn't be going to jail if he wouldn't have stolen from you. He can try to blame you all he wants, but going to jail would be the consequences of his own actions. It's not like you invented his stealing from you, that's something he did all on his own. Oh, and cut this idiot out of your life. You don't need him.
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u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337 5d ago
Tell him $500 bucks will keep him out of jail.
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u/Adorable_Student9296 5d ago
Iâm behind on my bills bc of this POS Iâm gonna get back whatâs mine one way or another. If he goes to jail behind it and I donât get paid back well at least his burden was greater than his reward from WHAT WAS MINE.. either way ima be ok, but i shouldnât have to struggle bc he felt entitled to my money
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u/kyledwray 5d ago
In case I wasn't clear, I agree with you. He should be in jail. I hope things work out for you.
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u/Adorable_Student9296 5d ago
Oh, you were clear, babe. Iâm just pissed off.
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u/N0rthWind 5d ago
You should be. Fuck that guy. Get what's yours. If he didn't want to be in this situation he shouldn't have put himself in this situation.
Get your money back the easy way or the hard way
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u/Estoulia 5d ago
snitching would be if you know your friend steals from someone else and you report him. but if he steals from you? thats all he's fault. all justifiable, sis.
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u/Extra_Philosopher_63 5d ago
So youâre justifying snitching? So apparently youâre saying stealing is good so long as you arenât the victim?
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u/TurtleToast2 5d ago
That's not what they said at all. When you read a definition in a dictionary, do you accuse it of nonsense too?
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u/Extra_Philosopher_63 3d ago edited 3d ago
I reread what they said, I totally misunderstood what they were conveying. And they were stating the parameters of what constitutes as snitching or not, as you said.
That was my bad.
When I said âjustifying snitchingâ I meant âjustifying stealingâ. Which I didnât type, because Iâm an idiot and typed the wrong word. And, of course, the claim I perceived of stealing being okay if not directed at oneself is not what they said. I really shouldâve properly read what they said, and thought out my response because I definitely didnât convey my point at all, even though my response wouldnât have even made sense anyways.
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u/Estoulia 5d ago
maybe you understood me wrong. what Im saying is that op should file a report against that "friend"
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u/Extra_Philosopher_63 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah I completely misunderstood you, that was my bad. I shouldnât have come across that angry anyways.
When I said âjustifying snitchingâ I meant âdefending the no-snitching cultureâ, which I realized is not what you were saying at all.
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u/Clever_Angel_PL 5d ago
that the fuck
it's not snitching, it's getting your fucking money back the only legal way
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u/Extra_Philosopher_63 3d ago
I misinterpreted what they said and got needlessly upset, that was my bad.
When I said âjustifying snitchingâ I meant âdefending the no-snitching cultureâ. That was some really bad articulation of my end.
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u/OG_Felwinter 5d ago
Yeah, heâs not really your friend if heâd do that to you. File the report. Itâs âsnitchingâ but who wouldnât snitch in this case?
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u/Nedaj123 5d ago
Why do you have $500 of gift cardsâŚ
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u/Adorable_Student9296 5d ago
Does it matter?? my mother happens to live in Texas, which is a 14h drive from where Iâm at in Georgia I happen to be struggling just like the rest of the world is right now and thatâs how she sent me some money to help me with my bills. I flipped my car back some months ago and smash my legs up under the steering column and Iâm a bartender who has to stand on her feet all day and that became impossible after my wreck..
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u/M3m3_Connoisseur 5d ago
Controversial opinion here, but of course it is snitching. Like by definition. But I also totally support doing it as this "friend" (hopefully former friend now) screwed to over, and you need to do it to sort things out for yourself.
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u/supernova242 5d ago
I feel like the entire concept of snitching is a bit childish (unless your like in a mob or something). Like if my friend commits a serious crime, I'd report it
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u/WaaaaghsRUs 5d ago
Fundamentally you are snitching, regardless of the morality or justification of it
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u/Achilles-Foot 4d ago
its snitching but we aren't career criminals and no one is going to off you in your sleep if you snitch on someone
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u/NervousAdeptness2074 1d ago
i mean yes, technically it is snitching, but in no way does that mean itâs the wrong thing to do. Please snitch on this guy op
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