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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Is Facebook a friend or your worst enemy?

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Facebook is arguably one of the very best inventions of the last 50 years. Or is it one of the worst abominations to be conceived yet? It all depends on your point of view and if you are one of the unfortunate people who have lost a job, been turned down for a job, been cyber-bullied or even got a criminal record because of something posted on FB then you know what I’m taking about.

It’s undeniable that social networking sites have brought pleasure to millions of people around the world. It has allowed people to keep in touch despite vast distances and passage of time. It has brought old friends together when they thought that they would never see each other again. Many people use FB as an invaluable tool to organize events and keep their social life in order. Communicating with people has never been easier, especially now that you can do it so easily on your phone while mobile.

The dark side of Facebook

There is however a dark side to this new found freedom of communication and expression. Social networks make it possible for you to track the daily activities of all your friends and allows you to communicate with them any time that you want to. This very same technology makes it possible for employers to build a background profile of you and use it to decide whether to give you a job or not. Worse still, your Facebook profile can provide evidence to the police and land you with a criminal record.

If you apply for a job in an office and your FB profile shows that you regularly party the night away into the small hours they might take that into consideration. If you apply for a job working with children but your FB page shows you in compromising situations then there is a good chance that you will not get the job.

Some people post pictures of themselves actually committing offenses thinking that their pages are private. This can get you into serious trouble. It can get you arrested and provide the prosecution with all the ammunition that they need to secure a conviction. You then have a criminal record that will follow you for the rest of your life.

Don’t stop using Facebook

I don’t want to stop you from using FB. As I said, the social benefits it brings are huge and I would not want to deny you those benefits. What I do want you to do is act responsibly when you are using it.

The first thing that you must do is use the tools that Facebook provide to secure your account. This means setting your profile so that only the people that you want to see your information can see it. When you have done that you have probably done more than most to help keep your life private and secure your reputation.

Online security is never enough

Simply securing your account is not enough however. Remember that you are relying on the owners of FB to be responsible and respect your privacy wishes. Can you trust them to do that? I would not. You must also remember that FB is just one huge software program. It is built by programmers who are human and don’t always get things right. I know this because I’m a programmer myself. A web site like Facebook is a complex piece of software which is impossible secure 100% with certainty. If there is even a small hole in the security then the hackers will find it sooner or later.

Even if Facebook was 100% secure one of your ‘friends’ could take your posts and images and post them elsewhere. You may forget that you made your boss a friend and then post something bad about the company that you work for. A sure way to get yourself fired if you ask me.

FB will also give up your information to the police to comply with court orders. Anything that you write or post online can and will be held against you in court if the police choose to do so when they charge you with an offence. A conviction for smashing a window is easy to achieve if you post a picture of you doing it on FB.

Anything you post on line may be found in a background check

So don’t stop using FB but whenever you post stuff there you should assume that whatever you put on the site may someday become public. Before you post ask yourself this question “Would I want anyone else to see this?”. If you would rather not show this information to your employer, a prospective employer, your ex partner or the police then don’t post it. Keep it to yourself. If you do this every time then you should be able to sleep easier at night knowing that it can’t come back to bite you one day.

Don’t get yourself a criminal record because you have posted something online to Facebook or anywhere else on line. It’s easy enough for someone to do a background check on you online without you helping out by posting all your secrets too.

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Criminal Records: Just How Just Is Our Justice System?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

The truth is out there if anyone would bother to look for it

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Have you ever thought about what goes on in the justice system? Do you assume that all the bad guys get caught and all the innocent people have nothing to fear? Isn’t that what the police and the justice system do? search out the truth and never convict an innocent person?

Most of us think that way. I know that I did until I saw the reality of the situation when a friend of mine was convicted for a serious offence and sent to prison for 6 years. I don’t believe that he committed the crime and there wasn’t a shred of evidence to prove that he did it and yet, they saw fit to convict him.

Are the police more interested in the conviction that they are in the truth?

We all believed that the police and legal teams would work together to uncover the truth and that the defendant would be cleared of the charges against him.

Did this happen? No it did not. The police had no other suspects so they stopped looking for evidence that could have cleared his name. He had no alibi and no way of proving his innocence. The trial went ahead with no clear evidence that he was guilty or innocent.

You would have thought that with no clear evidence of guilt that the jury would return a not guilty verdict on the grounds that there was reasonable doubt. But no, they did exactly the opposite and they did it unanimously.

The jury does not always make the right decision

I believe that even the prosecution team was surprised at this verdict. They had made a complete mess of the evidence all along. Making up scenarios that suggested guilt but were complete fiction.

This innocent man is now doing a long custodial sentence and his name will be tarnished forever. He has been condemned to a lifetime of low paid jobs and public disgrace.

There needs to be a change in the justice system. We will never be able to call ourselves a civilized society until our justice system becomes more interested in finding the ruth than it is about due process and makeing someone pay even if it is the wrong person. Lets not forget also that the real guilty person is still out there, potentially committing crimes. No one is looking for the real criminal.

There are more innocent people in prison than you might think

Since this case came to court I have learned that convicting innocent people has become, or still is, far more common than you could ever imagine. You don’t have to go far to fnd accounts of many alleged crimes where the evidence just does not make sense to convict someone and yet they were.

It seems that the police will go to great lengths to secure evidence that will point to a conviction at the expense of evidence to the contrary.

The jury have an impossible job

In court, the prosecution’s job is to get that conviction, not to find the truth. The jury have an impossible job of making sense of biased and unreliable evidence with no training or expertise to help them do the job. Is it any wonder that they vote with their emotions rather than fact. They are more likely to convict someone because they don’t like them than they are to examine the factual evidence objectively.

You might want to think about this the next time you look up someone’s criminal record or arrest record. Not everyone that is arrested or even convicted, are guilty.

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Search Criminal Public Records Free

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Don’t ignore your feelings – they could be right


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Have you ever had a feeling about someone that something just wasn’t quite right but you couldn’t put your finger on it? You want to trust this person because you naturally want to see the best in people.

You have noticed that there is something that just doesn’t ring true to you for some reason. Many people would call this intuition. It’s something that women seem to have in abundance but men also seem to have a share of it if the truth be told.

The funny thing about intuition is that it often turns out to be right and more often than you might imagine too. You should never ignore your intuition because you might end up regretting it if you do.One way to help you find out the truth about someone is to search criminal public records to see if they have ever been convicted. If you can do it for free then that would be so much the better right?

How to search criminal public records free

Criminal public records are maintained by municipal and county courts as well as state trial records. In addition, there are also records kept by federal trial courts.

The municipal, county and state courts are all supposed to send their records to a central state repository but it seems that this process isn’t always as reliable as it could be. Often courts are slow to transfer records to the repository and I’m told that sometimes it doesn’t happen at all.

If you are searching for criminal records on someone, the first thing that must establish is where the records might be. Someone can get a record anywhere of course but it’s more likely that any crimes were committed in or around the places where they have lived and worked.

You should then consult the criminal court index in these counties. Some counties may require a release before you can access the records that you require. In addition, you should also check the criminal court index at the state level and lastly, the federal court level.

You need to check both state and county level records to make sure that have the best chance of finding what you are looking for. If you only check criminal records at the state level then might miss some records that have not yet been transferred from county. If you only search at county level then you might miss any convictions in neighboring counties.

Criminal public records search services

Doing free searches for criminal records is easier to do now than it’s ever been. Most records are now online and the situation gets better all the time. Searching for criminal records in various county and state records web sites isn’t the fastest way to do do it however.

This is especially true when you aren’t sure where someone has lived and worked in the past. When you are trying to find someone’s criminal public records for pre-employment screening or even for someone you know socially, they may not be willing to tell you where they lived and got a conviction when you could easily look up the record.

Another approach, which you might find better suited to your needs is to use a public records online service to do your searches. You can find web sites that have already gone to all of the court records offices in the land and obtained all available public records for you.

You can search for criminal public records in every state using such a web site. It’s so quick and easy to do you won’t believe it.


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FBI Criminal Background Check | How Can I Background Check Myself

Friday, August 13th, 2010

How to request an FBI background check on yourself

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If you suspect that there might be some incorrect information on your FBI Identification Record or “Rap Sheet” as it is commonly known as, then you will need to make a request to obtain it. You have a right to do a criminal background check on yourself but you will have to jump through a few hoops to get hold of it.

If you are adopting a child or you need to disclose any criminal record to get work then you may need to request your criminal history record. Of course it’s more likely that you want to do your FBI criminal background check in order to prove that you don’t have a record at all.

You can request a copy of your identification record on the FBI web site at www.fbi.gov. Here you will find all the instructions that you need to complete the request and get it processed.

There is a fee payable that you must include with your application. At the time of writing the stated fee was $18 which is a nominal fee to cover administrative costs.

The worst part of the application form is the fact that you have to send in a full set of your fingerprints to prove that you are who you say you are. In this instance, a drivers license and a utility bill just won’t be enough.

Fingerprints must be taken carefully so that they are clean prints and you must fill in a fresh fingerprint card too. In theory I suppose that you could do all of this yourself but I would suggest that you go down to your local law enforcement office and get an expert fingerprint technician to do it for you. This should avoid any problems with the process.

Can you get an FBI criminal background check on someone else?

No, you can’t, not through the FBI site anyway. The application has to be done in person and anyone trying to get one for someone else would need to obtain a full, yes all 10, set of fingerprints. You need to be determined just to get your own rap sheet, it would be near impossible to get one for someone else without their knowledge.

Free criminal background checks

Nothing is ever absolutely free I know and you aren’t going to get such a complete and accurate criminal background check on yourself as you will direct from the FBI itself. But it is possible for you to look up criminal and arrest records, arrest warrants and a lot more information by doing your searches in public records, online. You can do it really quickly too.

It can be a very cheap alternative and potentially provide you with a lot of diverse information that you might not get from the FBI. This could be bankruptcies, civil judgements, email addresses, property records and other interesting stuff. In addition you can do criminal background checks on anyone using public records, not just yourself.

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Criminal Background Check | Instant Criminal Records Lookup

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Looking for a fast way to do a criminal background check

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If you are an employer recruiting new staff then you need to be as thorough as you can reasonably be when you interview applicants and when you are checking their credentials and resumes. One of the most important checks that you should be doing is a criminal background check to make sure that you are aware of any criminal history the person might have.

verifying that someone is being truthful and upfront with you can be just as important when you are hiring someone to do some work on your property, look after your child or even going out on a date together.

If you go about it the right way then you can lookup criminal history online and find out all sorts of things about a person. You can do this fast online and it’s often all you will need. To be thorough, you should follow it up by a more robust search. Especially if you find something disturbing from the online background check.

Cover yourself if you are an employer

To be certain that there are no misunderstanding between you and the applicant that might later lead to accusations of invasion of their privacy, you should get the person to sign a waiver. You will need a suitably worded form that effectively gives you permission to obtain any information that you might need about them.

This step is a very standard and necessary one to make sure that the applicant is aware that they are giving away their privacy in return for the job consideration.

Finding Criminal records

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Criminal records are not as easy to locate as you might think. records are kept at county and municipal courts as well as state trial courts. The lower courts, in theory at least, pass their records up to the state repository. Unfortunately the accuracy of this process varies from state to state which is why investigators recommend that you search at both county and state court records offices if you don’t want to miss anything.

When you check out someone’s criminal history you should check at each county court and each state court where the person has lived or worked in recent years. These are the places where any criminal records are most likely to be found if they exist.

Very serious cases might have been heard in federal courts and will not be uncovered in county and state searches. To check federal criminal records you can consult the U.S. Party/Case Index PACER service.

Instant criminal background check with online public records

The fastest and easiest way to do a criminal background check is to use an online public records web site. Trying to check all the county, state and federal court records one at a time is a time consuming task at best so it makes sense to start with a simple but near instant criminal background check using a site that makes it it’s business to collect all these records into one place for you.

Use this public records web site for instant Criminal Background Checks. It might be the only resource you need.

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Access Free Public Records To Find Someones Criminal Background

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Use free public records – find out what isn’t being said

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Do you find that it’s difficult to determine what someone is like when you first meet them? Even your closest friends could be hiding things from you and you would never know unless you took the trouble to verify some of the things that they tell you. You would like to think that the majority of friendships and relationships are open and transparent and I’m sure that most are. But what about the rest? What about the people you meet that tell you lies or simply leave out the things that they don’t want you to know? You can use your access to free public records when verifying what people tell you.

There are many things that can wreck a great friendship but very few are as damaging as lending money can be. Even when a relationship is close and built on truth and trust you should be very careful when you are asked for money. How do you know that you are going to get it back again? or when you might get it back. It’s always a risk and often it’s a risk worth taking if you are sure of both your friends intentions and capacity to repay. When a deal like this goes wrong it can place a huge strain on a relationship so you might want to do some research first.

Don’t lend money to someone declared bankrupt

When you are faced with the decision to lend money to a friend or not it’s often the best course to say no. If you don’t give the money in the first place then you will not have to worry about getting it back. It’s also true that lending money to someone who is already in debt is almost always a bad idea for all concerned. But what if, despite all the potential pitfalls, you decide that you still want to help your friend. You can and it may all work out but before you do why not do a background check first. This will tell you if their story is true and may alert you to any warning signs like criminal records, arrest warrants or bankruptcy reports.

How can a background check save a friendship

If you use a background check to really get to know the person you are about to hand over money to you may gain reassurance that the person is genuine and probably a good risk for your money. On the other hand you might find that your friend has a bankruptcy filed, a criminal record or other things that they have kept from you. If this is the case then you may want to think twice about the loan. In both cases the knowledge that you gain could save you from making a mistake and make sure that you stay the best of friends. Don’t worry about getting caught looking up background because good public records web sites are fully confidential

If you are worried that by doing background checks with a public records web site will turn up things that are really confidential then don’t be. Public records sites provide you with a very convenient way to access publicly available records about people but it’s all available somewhere else if you have the time to search for it.

How fast can you do a background check

There are literally billions of pieces of information held in public records databases just waiting for you to search through to find the data that you need. When you consider the sheer volume of data held in these databases it’s almost unbelievable to think that you can perform searches and access free public records in a matter of mere seconds but it’s true. Give it a try. It could save you more than one good friendship.

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Access Free Public Records And Check Someones Criminal Background Before Loaning Money

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Know someone better using free public records

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Relationships can be so difficult can’t they? Most of the time when you meet someone you will both be genuine and open with each other and you should have no reason to suspect that there is any intent to deceive or misinform you. In return you yourself will be open and forthcoming. This is the way great friendships start. But what if the other person has something to hide? Something that they would rather you didn’t find out about. How would you ever know that you were being told lies or that some of the truth has been left out? Find out how to access free public records to check out their background.

Even the best of relationships can be tested to the limit sometimes. No matter how close you are to someone there are some things that can break you apart so easily if you are not very careful. One of the things almost guaranteed to place a strain on any relationship is lending money. Yes it’s ok if the loan is repaid in a timely fashion and you can see that the person who you loaned it to is doing everything that they possibly can to return the cash to you. Sadly this is often not the case. Even with the best of intentions on both sides things can go wrong and wreck the relationship.

Would you loan money to someone with a criminal record?

If you are thinking of loaning someone money, what can you do to reduce the risk of the deal going sour? You might think that lending cash to someone who has been declared bankrupt, has an arrest warrant, a lien or a criminal record is an unacceptable risk and that you should think twice about handing over the dollars. But these aren’t things that people like to talk about, especially when they want to impress you before asking you to loan them some money. Doing background checks on a person before you give them money is the sensible thing to do.

Doing a background check could save your relationship

It’s very common to shy away from doing background checks on people in the false belief that they will discover your research and think that you don’t trust them. Finding out things that really should be kept private is another reason why you might not want to do a background check. Perhaps just the act of performing a background search might be enough to somehow break up a friendship. Neither of these obstacles are real however. You can do a background check using a web site that is completely confidential. There is no way that the other person can find out unless you tell them.

Public records web sites do just what they say in the description. They provide you an easy way to find information that is freely and publicly available elsewhere if you knew where to look. There is no question of you finding out things that are truly private.

Look up someone’s criminal background fast

You won’t believe how much information there is to find or how fast you can search through it all until you’ve used a web site to access free public records and do a background check for the first time. You can find out all sorts of stuff about people including any criminal records, arrest warrants or bankruptcies. Do a background check on someone today.

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Monday, January 18th, 2010

Background checking is a good way to get to know someone

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How can you be sure that you know someone and I mean really know them? Some of the most notorious criminals in history managed to conceal their crimes from their closest friends and even their family. What chance have you got if you’ve only known them for a relatively short time?

Sometimes you might get a feeling that something isn’t quite right when you start to read between the lines and separate the facts from the charm. Other times you might have no idea that your new lover or best friend has anything to hide. So how can you be sure that you aren’t making a big mistake by getting involved with this person? You can get to know the truth about most people very well in just a few minutes one evening by searching for any criminal public records. free searches would be nice if you can find them but making a small payment can make things a lot simpler, faster and more efficient.

Are free criminal records checks a myth?

Most if not all criminal convictions are reported publicly somewhere. Some even get broadcast on live TV. In general, court proceedings aren’t a secret so you might think that you can look up anything you want. The problem is not that criminal public records are concealed from the public but that it’s so damn difficult to search them out.

If you go to one of the major search engines and type in “Free criminal public records” you are likely to get many pages of results which might lead you to believe – well it did me – that you’ll be able to find the information you want without handing over any money.

So is it true – can you really find criminal records free? I tried it, I clicked on a lot of links that claimed to show me how to find criminal records for free and here is what I found.

Not quite free criminal public records

Well I can save you a lot of time here. I guess that in some rare cases where you know exactly what you’re looking for and it just happens to be accessible online then you might be ok. This was not what I found however. I spent a lot of time clicking on links that I felt sure would lead me to some kind of free search engine that would show the results I was looking for but none of them did.

Some links were government sites that were not very friendly and would at best only show me limited information. Some sites that claimed to be free would still ask for money before you get to see any meaningful information.

The next best thing – an affordable criminal public records web site

I did find a great web site that can tell you just about anything you are likely to want to know about someone. I wanted to find out some information about a friend of mine so I searched for his name and found him in the list of results. This told me that the web site did indeed have some information about this person but you do have to pay a small fee to get the details.

This site had a good guarantee so you can get a refund if you aren’t satisfied. I gave it a go and was frankly amazed at the information you can get from this site. It was well worth the nominal fee you pay. This is the next best thing to finding criminal public records free. Try it out yourself.

Author: Steve Gee

Arrest Warrants | How to Find Criminals Who Live Near You

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

How many criminals live in your neighborhood?

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I was talking to someone recently about the importance of doing regular background checks on yourself to make sure that you don’t have any arrest warrants and that your records are correct. I was shocked and amazed by what this person told me.

I know how embarrassing it can be when the police come and arrest you without warning. Not to mention the stress, upset, loss of work and the financial implications that are involved. It hasn’t happened to me but I know someone who has experienced it. One way to try and avoid this situation is to do regular background checks so that you can spot any warrants early enough to get a lawyer to help you to give yourself up and straighten things out.

Criminals avoid arrest warrants by moving state

Then I was told something that took me by surprise. Apparently the person I was talking to had warrants in another state and so did his wife. It turned out that they had arrest warrants in several states dating back for years. I don’t know why this person told me this – I would rather keep that sort of thing to myself but he obviously felt confident enough not to worry about it. I suppose if I reported his whereabouts to the police he would simply move out of state again.

The police can’t afford to enforce arrest warrants from other states

He explained to me that police departments aren’t keen to chase people once they move out of the state that they committed the offence in. Apparently it’s too expensive to cooperate with other police departments and I guess “out of state – out of mind”.

There could be more criminals living by you than you think

It’s very common for criminals to commit offences in one state then move to another when they get caught. Some even live in one state and commute to other states to commit crimes. The police almost never come after them unless they can catch them red handed in the act. This means that there might be far more criminals in your neighborhood than you imagined there could be.

Think about this for a moment. Any of your friends, neighbors, people you work with or hire to do work for you. Any of them might be criminals and you would never suspect it. That’s a scary thought.

Find out who the criminals are

After this conversation I was worried and you should be too. I wanted to find out who and where the criminals were so that I could take steps to protect myself. You can find a lot of background information about someone by going online and using a public records web site. You can find out if someone has arrest warrants or a criminal record. You can also find out if they are married – useful if you are dating them – or bankrupt and many other things that you can use to make sure someone is who they say they are and that they aren’t hiding something from you.

Check out your neighborhood today

Who knows what you’ll find when you start to check out your friends and neighbors. You should check out the people who live near you and anyone you come into contact with. Make a point of doing arrest warrant searches on anyone that you might hire to do any work for you and anyone you might date. You could save yourself a lot of problems and if they come up clean then you will have peace of mind.

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Find Criminal Records | Do You Know If Your Friends Are Criminals?

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

How to check your friends and your workmen for criminal records

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Do you trust the people around you? How do you know that your friends or people that you have dealings with are who they appear to be? It seems to be very common to hear about serial killers, kidnappers and thieves who led perfectly ordinary lives. Even their closest friends had no idea that they had a life on the other side of the law. How can you protect yourself from people like that?

Elle and Jack are a typical couple with busy lives living in the suburbs. They don’t have the time to do all the little odd jobs about the place that they want to do so they looked for someone reliable that they could pay do do it for them. When they saw the work that Mick was doing on a neighbors property they were very interested. They were impressed by the quality of work and their neighbor told them that Mick was a reliable worker. Elle and Jack asked Mick to do a small repair job on their property as a sort of test before giving him more work.

Mick did the job later that week. He was efficient and the work was of a good standard. Both Elle and Jack liked Mick a lot because he was a very likeable and sociable person as well as being good at his job. They saw no reason why they shouldn’t give Mick a more substantial list of projects to undertake. They were so taken by Mick that Elle and Jack sidn’t think twice about giving Mick a set of keys to the property so that he good proceed with the work while they were out at work.

It took Mick a little longer to complete the list of work that he originally expected but Jack and Elle were happy to pay Mick for his extra time because they were so happy with the job that he had done. Mick asked for cash payment which is a common request for some reason.

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Mick left the area and then the problems began

Elle and Jack were very pleased with the job that Mick had done for them. He had accomplished a whole load of things that they had been planning to do for years. They thought the world of Mick. That is until they started to notice some things that were not quite right.

There were some things that they didn’t use very often like power tools and jewelry but when they did look for them they were not to be found. Elle and Jack just thought that they had misplaced them and that they would turn up sometime.

Then they noticed some transactions that they didn’t recognize on their credit cards. They were all small and Elle and Jack never usually pay much attention to their statements so it went unnoticed for a while. When they added it all up it came to tens of thousands of dollars and Mick was the prime suspect.

This doesn’t have to happen to you

This story never happened but this kind of thing does happen for real all the time. It never occurred to Elle and Jack that Mick could be a serial thief with a criminal record but they could have checked had they wanted to. They could have done a background check on Mick to find criminal records and if they had they might well have changed their minds about hiring him in the first place. They could have saved themselves a lot of money and stress.