A 37-year-old woman surnamed Lin has a husband who enjoys having extramarital affairs and frequently takes his mistresses to hotels, which makes Lin pretty upset. On July 17, when her husband and his mistress went out to have dinner and parked their car in front of the restaurant, she stalked the couple, got into the car and stole NT$150,000 from their wallets, leaving them no money to check in to a hotel room. After the police received the report and examined video footage from a surveillance camera, they discovered that Lin was the perpetrator. Lin’s husband was flabbergasted, saying, “How could it be her?”
Lin explained to the police that she had discovered that her husband had been having a secret affair with the mistress for more than a month, which made her incredibly furious, and that was why she took the spare remote-control key and tailed them. She took their cash only to “give them a fright,” she said. The mistress told the police that they had meant to check in to a hotel room, but then discovered they had no money, so they could not go there. When Lin’s husband heard this story, he did not want to press charges. However, theft is an indictable offense, and the police charged Lin with theft accordingly.
(Liberty Times, translated by Ethan Zhan)
Photo: Hsu Sheng-lun, Liberty Times, from security camera footage
照片：自由時報記者徐聖倫翻攝
三十七歲林姓女子的丈夫喜歡拈花惹草，常帶小三「開房」，林女對此非常不爽，七月十七日趁丈夫與小三出門用餐，汽車停放於餐廳門口，尾隨潛入車內偷取丈夫、小三二人皮包內十五萬多元現金，讓他們開不了房。警獲報調閱監視器，發現是林女所為，林女丈夫驚訝的說：「怎麼...是她...」。
林女向警方供稱，發現丈夫與小三交往一個多月，氣得她牙癢癢，所以才拿備用遙控器尾隨；把現金偷走只是想「嚇嚇他們」。而小三向警方表示，他們原本要去開房間，結果發現沒錢去不成。林女丈夫獲悉後不願提告，但竊盜屬公訴罪，警方依竊盜罪嫌將林女函送法辦。
（自由時報記者徐聖倫）
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