Comments on: Malta – where people will steal anything left out in public https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2432267 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:54:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2432267 In reply to nutmeg.

The before and after effect was incredibly fast.

For the short number of hours that the tunnel was tiled, the reflection of light on the tiles made the whole tunnel really bright with light.

It went from sudden light to permanent darkness regained.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2429560 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:16:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2429560 I used to steal traffic cones in my partying days. Techno, light sticks and traffic cones. Bliss.

]]> By: The Mole https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2428921 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:11:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2428921 In reply to nutmeg.

My mother used to mention it every time we drove through that tunnel.

]]> By: Mandy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2427667 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:45:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2427667 In reply to iehor.

Actually, he got a plaque from Anton Refalo for his good deed:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140827/local/ferry-worker-who-returned-bag-with-2000-thanked-by-minister.533391

]]> By: il-Ginger https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2427593 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:10:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2427593 In reply to iehor.

U tawh plakka ukoll lol

]]> By: nutmeg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2427263 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:59:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2427263 Did that tile-stealing operation really happen?

[Daphne – Yes, of course it did. Ancient people like me remember it well.]

]]> By: iehor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/malta-where-people-will-steal-anything-left-out-in-public/#comment-2426955 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:26:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51403#comment-2426955 A week ago a tourist inadvertently left behind her bag containing cash on the Gozo ferry. An employee found it and, instead of stealing it, returned it to its owner.

This act of minimal, run of the mill honesty, the majority considered totally stupefying. Literally hundreds wrote in utter amazement.

Common honesty was considered so extraordinary that many proposed that employee for the ‘Gieh ir-Repubblika’. So astonished were the majority that the employee did not steal what did not belong to him, that the Minister for Gozo hosted a press event to present the wholly un-Maltese freak to the world.

We are so unaccustomed to not stealing whenever the occasion presents itself that when, ever so rarely, it happens, it literally makes front-page headlines. How sad.

]]>