No-pants robber following fashion

It reminded me of an occasion when a Trini, desperate to overhear his neighbour’s conversation but not be detected, not moving a muscle silently laid himself prostrate on the ground. Unfortunately, while hiding his head and shoulders inside some bushes, his legs remained clearly visible to all passers-by.

And what about those smiling contractors and their workers who chat up a storm with their clients while committing larceny against any property not irrevocably nailed down.

On the other hand, land is regularly stolen where a representative, trustee or authorised power of attorney deals with it in breach of trust. It is also stolen where an individual is not in possession of land within his sight, but appropriates for himself anything that forms part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed like the boundary of a roadway or a neighbour’s rightful boundary.

Most are aware of developers who appropriate State lands by severing these lands rightly inherited by all citizens of the country, and politicians who, having wiggled themselves into our treasure chest, have stolen the soul of the nation and are putridly smiling sweetly and gleefully through it all, up front and centre in our faces. Who really has the integrity to do what’s necessary to bring these fraudsters to justice? So, when a robber strips down to his boxer shorts with rake in hand giving the performance of his life, he’s only following fashion.

KATHLEEN PINDER via email