This, is not the group’s first time here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Hong and his two accomplices broke into a garage in Keelung for the third time, snuck out with the cars for a joyride in the middle of the nights, and before dawn, they’d, returned the cars back, the garage found that the mileage didn’t match up, they’d reported it to the police and pressed charges; the D.A. believed, that Hong and his accomplices committed theft, and without the intentions of taking the cars for themselves, and dropped the charges of possessions against them.
The spokesperson of Keelung’s D.A.’s offices, Chou said, larceny is the intent to commit a crime, driving the car out of the shop, then driving it back into the garage, based off of the laws, there’s no intention that the defendants were taking the cars for themselves, so, the charges of theft wouldn’t stand up in court. He’d suggested, that the garage can file a civil claim, and have the men pay back the money for the gas they’d used.
The owners of the garage felt helpless toward the D.A.’s handling of the matter, stressed that they would not go for a civil suit, for a couple of hundred dollars’ worth of gas; the attorney, Lin, however, disagreed with the D.A.s handling of the matter, believed, that it’s one-hundred-percent theft, that by not indicting the individuals, there’s a bad precedence being set.
Lin said, knowing it’s someone else’s car, and you’d still driven it off, causing the loss of the time for use for the real owners, and depleting the gas, this shouldn’t be settled by a simple pay off in the civil suits; the D.A.s not indicting was like encouraging the members of the public, to take someone else’s cars out for joyrides.
The owner of the garage said that awhile ago, they’d found that there’s not enough gas in the car, and that there was, an increase in the odometers, he’d reviewed over the surveillance, and found it to be an adolescent male who knew the operations of the garage who’d taken the keys, and from the end of September to the beginning of October, he’d taken Hong and others into the shop late at night, and Hong drove the group out for a joyride, then returned the car before daylight.
The garage reported the theft, the adolescent was sent to juvenile court, Hong, to the Keelung D.A.s office, but the D.A. believed that Hong’s actions didn’t constitute as larceny, and dropped the charges against him yesterday.
The owner of the garage said, there’s a high risk that the cars get taken out of the garage, who’ll be responsible, if the joyriders had an accident, he’d sued, to teach the offenders a lesson, and he’d become, dumbfounded at how the D.A.’s office didn’t pursue, but there was nothing he could do about that. He’d said, he’d increased the means of security and surveillance in the garage, as for the civil case, he’d, dropped it, there wasn’t need to sue the workers for a few hundred dollars worth of gas.
And, guess what these joyriders had learned? Oh yeah, we can walk on the boundaries of the laws, and, so long as we don’t cross that invisible line, then, there’s nothing that the law can do to us! And this, is still, just BULLSHIT if you ask me! But hey, who asked Y-O-U, right??? Exactly.