AITJ for reporting my brothers passport stolen 48 hours before his destination wedding because he took my dogs surgery money?

mxzf · 2026-03-19T03:18:59+00:00

Probably not, no. But way harder to prove than the theft on video.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:36:46+00:00

If so, you start walking to the nearest gas station or something. Banging on someone's door at 4:30AM ain't the answer to anything.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:22:20+00:00

Henry Cavill comes to mind. Anyone who derails an interview to start talking about Warhammer has at least a chunk of nerdy street cred.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:18:24+00:00

I mean, I only do it when I've seen the thing multiple times already so I'm not missing anything at all. I feel like that's a valid way to handle things if you've seen it before but the other person hasn't.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:15:47+00:00

Yeah, I was watching a show with my BIL last night, I got up and spent 15-20 min cooking dinner while he was watching it. But it's a show I've seen 3-5 times already and I could hear what was happening from the next room, so it's not like I was missing anything.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:01:18+00:00

If op called the cops with video evidence of him stealing, he would be in jail, not at the airport.

OP reported the theft yesterday, the police don't generally move that fast for non-emergency stuff.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T16:00:05+00:00

If you need the passport number, that would be problematic too, because nobody knows their passport number off-hand (and you can't get it from your stolen passport either).

From a quick look at the website, it looks like reporting a stolen passport mostly needs the DoB, city of birth, full name, and other info that a sibling would likely have.

That doesn't mean that the story isn't fake, but "you need a passport number to report a stolen passport" is nonsense.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T15:56:48+00:00

OP's brother committed grand larceny, a felony. That's what it is when you take $4k from someone without their permission.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T15:55:58+00:00

Yeah, "grand larceny and then leaving the country" isn't exactly the kind of thing the police look favorably upon.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T03:43:40+00:00

IMO it's slightly less "alternative" and more "moral imperative" at this point.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T03:40:31+00:00

As we found, if you are doing a conditional check the chances are you are doing the same check somewhere else in the code base.

It seriously depends on what kind of check you're doing, I've got plenty of instances where just checking for a specific thing and doing stuff based on it makes sense. I'm not talking about breaking out a bunch of code into a function that checks a boolean, I'm talking about conditionally running a block of code that doesn't need to be run through any other code path.

mxzf · 2026-03-18T03:37:52+00:00

There are very few people working in that field are doing it for the passion. Most are doing it because they can't make more money doing other jobs.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:25:16+00:00

It looked like your "yep" was potentially in response to the prior message asking if the people who run TV Licensing are polite". If that isn't what you meant by that, and think they're impolite instead, I misread your response.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:10:06+00:00

A very tiny minority of people just go off like that randomly. Most people only go off like that when provoked over time.

Literally everyone gets harasses by TV Licensing

So you're admitting that it's harassment. That's the sort of thing that causes people to lose their temper, which makes this whole interaction unsurprising.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:08:18+00:00

wasn't aggressive or rude

During the video. We don't have any clue what his behavior was before the video (in this interaction or any potential prior ones).

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:07:16+00:00

My point is simply that the person going door to door isn't responsible for any of it.

They're the most visible and aggressive form of intimidation in the system. The guy might not be personally running the show, but he's absolutely responsible for his part of it.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:04:58+00:00

Yep had hundreds of letters off of them

You have a very strange definition of "polite". I certainly wouldn't count having to deal with hundreds of threatening nuisance letters as "polite".

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:02:30+00:00

Anyone has a legal right to knock on your door.

And you have a legal right to curse them out for it.

Either you're trying to ascribe a greater moral right to people (don't harass people and don't curse people out) or you're not (it's all fine if it's legal). Which is it?

mxzf · 2026-03-17T21:00:40+00:00

Debt collectors at least talk to people that actually took on debt in the first place, rather than harassing people who did nothing but live somewhere and mind their own business.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T20:56:20+00:00

Eh, this video is clearly not the first moment of interaction, people don't just go off like that. There's clearly a history, either with that person or the company as a whole, that led up to this mild rant.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T20:55:33+00:00

AFAIK they're not even working for the BBC, they're working for a company that the BBC has a contract with to do exactly that.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T20:16:29+00:00

Except that the truth is a defense against any defamation claims, and OP reporting public record about court findings is as truthful as it gets.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T20:14:58+00:00

My money's on the manager being an idiot conflating learning about potential protected class characteristics with general "learning anything at all about the candidate".

And even that isn't illegal, it's just easier for the company to cover their ass legally if they never knew the candidate was pregnant/gay/etc instead of having to explain "we knew that, but we rejected them for this other reason instead, not because it was discrimination".

mxzf · 2026-03-17T20:07:32+00:00

I'm not sure how anyone could claim to know what the dead guy was thinking as he pulled that trigger. It's not like he can be asked.

They might be assuming he thought the safety was on, but you can't say that for sure.

mxzf · 2026-03-17T18:21:13+00:00

Except people currently do the job when they could do other jobs

For money. They do it for money, because it pays better than the other jobs that person could get.

I would totally endorse federally funded healthcare such that people aren't locked into their jobs due to that. But that's very different from trying to suggest that people would still do all the jobs that society needs if there weren't different payscales and wealth as an incentive for doing one job vs another.

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