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Albion my Albion

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So Worthing is stealing headlines by being the Shoplifting Capital.

Is it "worth" it?
 


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Is that the ratio of items stolen to items sold?
Or the ratio of items stolen to items available to buy?
Or the total number of items stolen?
Or the total number of items stolen corrected for the total population?
Or the total number of items stolen corrected for the total population of chavvy teenagers?

If the latter I would expect it to be one of the very highest.
Especially if there is a population of deviant geriatrics living in Worthing???

Or it could all be a sampling error.
 


beorhthelm

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Is that the ratio of items stolen to items sold?
Or the ratio of items stolen to items available to buy?
Or the total number of items stolen?
Or the total number of items stolen corrected for the total population?
Or the total number of items stolen corrected for the total population of chavvy teenagers?

If the latter I would expect it to be one of the lowers.
Unless there is a population of deviant geriatrics living in Worthing???

Or it could all be a sampling error.
reckon you've put about 5 time more thought in that post than the reporter writing the article.
 














Crawley Dingo

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From article..
Worthing ranks first on the list with the highest shoplifting rates in the UK, with 23.2 incidents per 1,000 residents. Crawley ranks sixth with 16.6 incidents per 1,000 residents.

I think they got the decimal point in the wrong place for Crawley. If you are outside the County Mall on some days you can see the cops haling them out like its a Millwall crowd.
 


Easy 10

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My mates doris used to work in the Worthing Poundland store. The thieving there was so prolific they pretty much gave up on trying to stop it.
 






Eeyore

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From article..
Worthing ranks first on the list with the highest shoplifting rates in the UK, with 23.2 incidents per 1,000 residents. Crawley ranks sixth with 16.6 incidents per 1,000 residents.

I think they got the decimal point in the wrong place for Crawley. If you are outside the County Mall on some days you can see the cops haling them out like its a Millwall crowd.
I must admit, I had Crawley as favourite
 


Eeyore

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It's very unlikely that Worthing has the highest rate in the UK though. Okay, Durrington, maybe.
 










Harry Wilson's tackle

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Overspill from LA?
Well, if people will leave something lying around, the Graham Road massive will have it away.

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FFS having lived through 1970's Whitehawk, Moulsecoomb, Fishersgate, Mile Oak, Coldean, Portslade etc etc, as an (almost) pensioner these days, I'll take my chances in all of those areas, and Sussex generally without screaming for a policeman.

Bloody snowflakes :lolol:
 


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