Apostrophes are for the weak.
A 16-year-old convicted burglar in Leeds was sentenced to a 12-month supervision program which included writing letters of apology to his victims. As it turns out, this simple step backfired, proving the youth lacked both remorse and a proper grasp of grammar.
The unnamed boy’s scathing treatise against open windows and parted blinds reprimands victims for “the dumb mistakes [they] made” and accuses them of enabling his behavior. Oblivious homeowners, he argues, should expect to be robbed.
Further, if you can forgive the inept spelling errors, “I dont feel sorry for you and Im not going to show any sympath or remores.” Interestingly, the hand-written letter (as reproduced in The Times) contained some line-edits by its author; none, however, successfully corrected any spelling errors.
On the bright side, the boy’s letter evidently caught the eye of police, leading the Chief Inspector of West Yorkshire Police to release this statement:
“We are working hard to target and reduce burglary but the biggest impact we can make is by working together to ensure burglars are not given a series of easy targets.”
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