Well, in one post JJ said he emailed the kid's boss, but then later recanted and said he was just joking about that. Which are we to believe? Could there be a falsification (a lie) in one of those posts? And is lying any less of an offense than stealing? If so, why?
Here's my point: We have all been guilty of offenses in our lives; some of them even being illegal. When our dads confronted us about stealing his cigarettes, we denied it. When we drank alcohol as teenagers, we broke the law, and if questioned by our parents about it, we lied to avoid punishment. When we used company stamps for personal mail, we stole from that company. Even when we've use company time for personal internet use, we were stealing.
I could go on and on with examples of dishonesty, but I think you get the idea. None of us are completely innocent of wrongdoing, and when we have done our wrongs (and maybe continue to do), it has never been the place of a bunch of internet forum members to arrest us, try us, convict us, and punish us.
In the case of the alleged cue thief in this thread; it is in the hands of the judicial system now. And that is where it should have stayed all along. It should have never been brought to this forum.
Roger