Dear Editor,
Re: “Bandits in luxury cars stealing pumpkins in Richmond,” News, Oct. 20.
I feel bad for George Gens and if there’s one thing that I cannot stand it’s a thief.
I’ve lived in Canada for over 40 years and although there are plenty of people who are struggling to keep a roof over their heads, there are alway choices to be made and options available if someone doesn’t have enough to eat nor enough money to feed their family.
Making the choice to steal is not one of them, nor is it an option that anyone needs to consider. There are so many places that low-income people can access for free meals, food hampers and low cost produce and other items.
Canada even exports many shiploads of food to other countries as part of it’s commitment for foreign aid and emergency assistance.
No one needs to steal in order to eat in Canada
What’s also difficult to swallow is that George Gen wakes up so early and puts in hours upon hours, day after day of very hard work to grow pumpkins in his garden and some people think that they can just drive up in an expensive car and steal what took months to cultivate and grow in all types of weather, rain or shine?
Most of these thieves may never see a day in court, and it’s doubtful that they will ever have to answer for their behaviours.
But, when they brush their teeth or shave in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror, I really hope they say to themselves, ‘I’m a thief who steals from others for my personal gain and I deserve whatever punishment the good Lord sees fit to deliver.”
Leslie Benisz
Richmond
