Where are morals?

Just over 20 minutes later, I left the shop to find my bike gone.

I would like to thank the despicable person who thought they had more right to my bike than I do, even though it was locked up and didn’t belong to them.

I’d also like to thank them for leaving me stranded in Wick and having to call my son to rescue me.

I’m sure I’ll be thanking them when I’m forking out for a replacement bike, and I was most certainly thanking them while walking to work this morning, rather than enjoying my usual cycle ride in. These people obviously have no conscience or morals, with no thoughts for anyone other than themselves and don’t concern themselves with trivialities like the stress, cost or inconvenience to the person they’ve stolen from.

On Saturday, I headed off to the Sahara with a group of friends and work colleagues to trek for five days, raising money for Water Aid to give unfortunate communities in Zambia wells in their villages and access to clean, fresh water for the first time in their lives.

We really don’t realise what privileged lives we live until you hear about the primitive conditions people in countries like Zambia have to live with in the 21st century.

Maybe the bike thief should try some voluntary work to find out just how others less fortunate than them cope. Or would they just steal from them too?

Anita Brown

Environmental health and

safety project co-ordinator,

The Body Shop

Watersmead

Littlehampton