<h3>Arrested for "theft by finding" after picking up discarded food</h3>

A 21 year old woman has been arrested and charged with theft by finding after helping herself to food items worth £200 thrown out by supermarket giant Tesco. Sasha Hall from Essex who earns £600 a month thought manna had fallen from heaven when her local Tesco Express in Great Baddow threw food up to the amount of £3000 after a power cut. The police who have nothing better to do than terrorise cash strapped hungry citizens later arrived at Ms Hall's domicile threatening to break open her door. She was then promptly handcuffed, arrested like a hardened criminal and will appear in front of Magistrates on February the 16th charged with theft by finding. Talk about the misappropriation of tax payers money to make such a useless arrest while yobs run amok on our streets!

What is theft by finding?

The complexity of English Law renders The Riemann Hypothesis almost solved. The Theft Act of 1968 1(1) defines theft as:  "A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and ‘theft’ and ‘steal’ shall be construed accordingly". 3(1) of the same act also states : "Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation, and this includes, where he has come by the property (innocently or not) without stealing it, any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner"  And there you have your meaning of theft by finding. However in this case Ms Hall did not appropriate property given that when Tesco threw out the food: Tesco forfeited its right to that property so it stops being a property of Tesco's.It is tantamount to picking up food in a rubbish bin. How is that theft by finding when the said property is not property owned? What next? Arresting people for scouring the scrap yard? Perhaps if the Met Police have finished dealing with crime off our streets they should shoe shine their shoes to a mirror reflection instead of wasting tax payers money on such incongruous arrests. Tesco should be arrested for its diabolical food waste and its ever soaring prices handcuffed permanently to a price halt. 

First Read in The Daily Mail