{"id":39652,"date":"2025-03-25T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39652"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:16:58","slug":"larceny-robbery-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39652","title":{"rendered":"larceny, robbery, etc&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i was reading a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/13609700\/Woman-steals-from-Walmart-using-trick-with-same-name-as-sex-maneuver-most-often-mentioned-by-Farkers-on-dates\" target=\"_blank\">fark.com post<\/a> about a woman using the &#8220;banana trick&#8221;   <span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69d60fa88a56b\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"\"    ><\/span><div id=\"target-id69d60fa88a56b\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">swapping the bar-code stickers from  bananas, or making ones own?, onto more expensive products<\/div> to steal ~80$ of groceries from a Walmart self-checkout. <span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69d60fa88a640\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"\"    ><\/span><div id=\"target-id69d60fa88a640\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">of course the submitter made it into a sexual inuendo, as one does on Fark.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1024x413.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39657\" width=\"764\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1024x413.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-1226x494.png 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-675x272.png 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.png 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>someone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/13609700\/177747252#c177747252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the comments posted<\/a> the wage theft is biggest when compared to burglaries, robberies, or larcenies:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-wage-theft-vs-other-losses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-wage-theft-vs-other-losses.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-wage-theft-vs-other-losses.jpg 702w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-wage-theft-vs-other-losses-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-wage-theft-vs-other-losses-675x476.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>which lead me to wonder what the diff is between these terms is.  instead of going to Wikipedia or a dictionary site, or just Googling the three terms (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=larceny&amp;udm=14\" target=\"_blank\">larceny<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=burglary&amp;udm=14\" target=\"_blank\">burglary<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=robbery&amp;udm=14\" target=\"_blank\">robbery<\/a>), <span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69d60fa88a673\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"\"    ><\/span><div id=\"target-id69d60fa88a673\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">which i did anyway, which usually gets me the definitions on the first result, but occasionally requires a click or two to get the definition; like the result for robbery somehow are focused on alocal robberies, whereas the results for the other two terms is pperfect; probably a better way would be to use context menu search to a dictionairy site (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;udm=14&amp;q=define:larceny\" target=\"_blank\">larceny<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;udm=14&amp;q=define:burglary\" target=\"_blank\">burglary<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;udm=14&amp;q=define:robbery\" target=\"_blank\">robbery<\/a>) <\/div> i thought this a good use of a &#8220;chat bot AI&#8221;, such as Gemini+  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/gemini\/share\/aaef68f3088b\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the result<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-584x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-584x1024.jpg 584w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-768x1347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-876x1536.jpg 876w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery-675x1184.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chart-gemini-diff-larceny-burglary-robbery.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was reading a fark.com post about a woman using the &#8220;banana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1697,18,1816,225],"class_list":["post-39652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-chatgpt","tag-economics","tag-llm","tag-neat","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39652"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39667,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652\/revisions\/39667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}