She was literally arriving, taking a product, knowingly not paying for it, and leaving… for months. Maybe she should also be facing a fraud case for various misrepresentations, but she clearly stole and that is most logical slam dunk of a route for the prosecutors to take… the act is verified, the guilty mind is pretty identifiable. I guess we’ll have to see how her legal team frames things.
There’s no change to the expectation in this transaction… “I swiped my card twice, it broke the process that is supposed to happen, the proprietor does not know that this is happening, I’m not going to tell them, I guess I can just exploit this forever with no ramifications”. What’s that? The security barrier in this shop is broken? I guess everything is free now.
This happens once, that’s an oopsie freebie, you do this every time for months then that is a pattern of criminal behave. You don’t just get to take stuff because the process has broken down, and any company has the explicit right to seek recompense from you.
“You didn’t stop me stealing from you, how is that my problem.”
I’m not going to say that Boeing had this guy directly killed, but I can certainly see them and their legal team explicitly trying to make his life as hellish as possible until he felt that he only had one way out. Legal threats if you stop proceeding with your case, legals threats if you don’t, they want a terrible warning for any other whistleblowers.
They’re been working on BG3 for so long as a studio… I can imagine wanting to work on something else.
Here’s hoping for a Games Workshop based RPG, maybe a Warhammer Old World story.