Re:Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry
by weinzierl on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:13AM
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Until 1975 German law had a Mundraub [1] (theft for the mouth) clause (§ 248a Abs. 2 StGB a.F.). It was concerned with the theft of small amounts of food for
immediate consumption, like eating an apple from your neighbor's garden.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundraub