Its like seeing a cute blue eyed girl and saying she is responsible
for being so cute.
Nonsense. You know the difference between just being something and doing something. Now, if she had been a mousy brown haired brown eyed flat chested girl with buck teeth, and had gotten breast enhancement, had her hair dyed blonde, gotten her teeth fixed, gone to a beauty school to learn make up skills, and gotten blue contact lenses, then yes, she would be responsible for people thinking she was cute. And if she then complained that guys stared at her or workers whistled at her as she walked by, I would say DUH.
He was useful in completing the transaction but had no
conscious knowledge of a theft taking place.
Knew or should have known. One cannot get away without accepting responsibility when one is irresponsibly naive. If you leave your car parked overnight on a street in Harlem unlocked with the keys in it, you are responsible if it is taken and used in a hit and run. If you're a bartender and keep pouring drinks down an obviously drunk guy's throat and then walk him out to his car and help him get in, you're responsible for the accident he gets into even though you had no intention that he get into an accident.
People are responsible for being reasonably cautious about the things they do.
And as I said, the teller would hardly have reacted normally. And it's not a normal situation to take a note to a teller and have her just hand over cash without double counting it and without ringing it up on her terminal. DUH. |
