As always with Loach, there is a set-piece sequence in which the anarchic heroes, subscribing to the precept that property is theft, rip off the petit-bourgeois world, in this case stealing a new strip for the team, transforming themselves from West Germany into Brazil, the shaven-headed Glaswegian Beckenbauer becoming an instant Pele.
Some of the accused assumed false names and backgrounds – in one case stealing the identity of a dead Canadian.
Bored with their regular routines of working, in Conor's case, at the fish stall run by his single mother Mairead (Hilary Rose) and, in Jock's case, stealing bicycles, they decide to embark on an adventure.
In some instances an intention to deprive the owner of the property temporarily also is sufficient, as in the case of stealing a car for a "joyride" and then abandoning it in such a way that the owner is able to reclaim it.
One should not overstate the case: stealing trainers and burning police cars are not the hallmarks of political sophistication.
Corey had convictions in two drug cases, Jason in a drug case and for stealing a car.
Wall Street once more proved that a man in an Armani suit carrying a brief case can steal a lot more than one man with a gun.
And the paramilitary blueshirts pushing them through scanners, prodding them, and in some cases stealing from them, are a hindrance, not a help, in that regard.
Lee "didn't remember things, and would sign almost anything anybody put in front of her," one friend tells Mark Seal, whose article about the case, "To Steal a Mockingbird?," appears in the August issue of Vanity Fair.
In Mrs. Fletcher's case, her 37-year-old son was finishing a seven-year sentence today for stealing a case of beer from a delivery truck, the culmination of years of petty theft and drug use.
There's plenty of all three in this story of Bobby Clark, a Canadian kleptomaniac who, expelled from high school for stealing a case of class rings, joins his brother in the jewelry business.
