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I have never been much of a thief. I never created a ponzi scheme or went to jail or am a criminal or anything. It all started when i was about 11-12. Hell, I don't even know how it started I just know that is the earliest that i started to borrow things without permission.
The first thing I ever "borrowed" was a pack of pokemon cards. Thought about the consequences and risk/rewards factor. How hard is it to see something you want (pokemon card pack) and slide it in your shirt and walk away? Risk = next to 0%. Reward = pokemon cards. After my first success, I would accompany my mother to the grocery store and everytime I would start to take more and more. 1 pack, 3 packs. a deck and a pack. 2 decks. A little asian kid thief, how amusing right? I don't remember the amount of cards I took, but I would have to estimate that I managed to obtain at least 1200 cards over the course of almost half a year's hard work.
There came a point, where I found out why it is bad to steal though. As short as my criminal career was, it was abruptly ended when a worker confronted me one day and asked what I was doing. Playing it cool I replied " i was just lookin at these pokemon cards sir". When asked if I put any of them in my pocket, I somehow managed to respond with a "seeing if I had any money and I didn't." Satisfied with my response, he let me be, but the psychological damage was done. The terror of almost being caught that day ended my career in petty smuggling within the year. i never stole again...
When I reached the age of 17, I was re-visiting the past and had started accumulating pokemon cards again at the cost of no money. I was too old to invest my hard earned money from a part-time job as a dishwasher into pokemon cards and I figured that I had such a great success earlier in my life that it could be replicated again. It was. For about a month, I hit the local wal-mart, target, and k-mart weekly getting about 35$ of card packs for every place I visited. One of my highest earnings during this time was bout 110$ when i hid all three of the stores, and balls to the wall, somehow managed to smuggle out an absurd amount of cards through my winter clothes.
Around this time, my Itouch broke. It was a christmas present several years ago and now, the screen wouldn't respond. I could press the "lock" button, but as for actually swiping my finger to unlock it, that task was dually impossible. I went to the Apple store, seeking expertise on my broken product and to see how great their customer service was. It was shit. They offered me a deal where I could recycle my itouch and buy a new one 100$ off (yea right). I said let me think about it and that was the end of that. Anyhow, before leaving and seething with anger, I'd thoguht that since I'm here, I should compensate myeslf fairly and rightly for my broken itouch (3rd gen 64GB = 599$). I looked around for a pair of nice-quality earbuds and found this gem, the Bowers and Wilkins C5 In-Ear Headphones for the small price of 179.99$. Took em and ran. Well not ran, but calmly walked out with the happiest look on my face as if I'd just bought a new apple product and become blinded by what is the huge conglomerate of Apple. This is where shit got real. This was the first thing of actual value that I had obtained through skill.
Later that year, I went to NYC with the rest of my school class for our senior trip. My profits were about 30$ worth of godiva chocolate and a 15$ french-vanilla coffee flavour, a syracuse hat from the nike store (30.00$), a couple lanyards from the NBC Studio to replace the Harry Potter World Griffyindor Lanyard that I had borrowed from florida about a year ago
and a bunch of shot glasses. I got one that says "Dunder Mifflin" and one from the Empire State Building. I collect shot glasses, but because I am not 21 it looks weird buying a shot glass, so I just take them as souvenirs instead. Also because I was not 18 yet, I couldn't buy lighters so I just borrowed them from various stores when I needed them. I also managed to snag a zippo lighter, which is now broken, but was very awesome to have when it actually worked.
My last conquest has been a pair of these fantastic Bowers and Wilkins P5 Headphones for 300$
I had wanted a new headset pair and figured this would do the job (I absolutely love it, the frame is complete class and strength and the design is very ingenuitive and the sound is crisp and real.
Statistics
I have played around with the idea of how much i have obtained at a sale price of 0.00$ and I figure without adding in the costs of all the songs that I got, all the movies, and all the software, that in real objects, it adds up to be about 1,300$ over the course of my lifetime. Piracy however adds in about 10,000$ because programs like after effects and photoshop costs bank!
The end. or is it?
+ Show Spoiler +Edit: - you might be wondering how I justify stealing because it does not belong to me right? Well, I justify stealing as if you are good enough to steal it, you are allowed to steal it. Just like with cheating on tests, its not cheating if you don't get caught. If you don't get caught, its not stealing. It is considered bad to steal a car, but ask yourself, do you even know how to steal a car? Chances are you most likely don't.
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Interesting stories. I think your justification is a little immature/misguided, but I would not condemn your actions outright; I don't really have a problem with what you've done.
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On June 04 2012 07:40 divito wrote:
Interesting stories. I think your justification is a little immature/misguided, but I would not condemn your actions outright; I don't really have a problem with what you've done.
It honestly is and I don't expect to have a mature kind of justification such as the classic stealing bread to feed your family.
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Sweden4353 Posts
I hope you get caught  it's easier for everyone if we can just trust each other on these things, stores that are too anal about making sure people don't steal from them are pretty obnoxious.
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On June 04 2012 07:32 Br3ezy wrote:
Well, I justify murder as if you are good enough to kill someone, you are allowed to kill someone. Just like with stealing, its not stealing if you don't get caught. If you don't get caught, its not murder. It is considered bad to kill a person, but ask yourself, do you even know how to kill a person? Chances are you most likely don't.
Your attempt to justify yourself is pretty pathetic. Changed the quote to show why.
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sounds bad ass teach me how to steal shit
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u can steal all u want, as long as its from the apple store.
otherwise u are bad.
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Wow , your logic for stealing is so bad. I have to agree with Nttea , i hope you get caught.
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jesus people like you make me sick.
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I would have simply regarded this blog as foolish, but grouping what you do with piracy is absurd and shows that there is not even a shadow of reason in your thinking.
I hope you keep thinking the way you do.
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On June 04 2012 07:54 Jinsho wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2012 07:32 Br3ezy wrote:
Well, I justify murder as if you are good enough to kill someone, you are allowed to kill someone. Just like with stealing, its not stealing if you don't get caught. If you don't get caught, its not murder. It is considered bad to kill a person, but ask yourself, do you even know how to kill a person? Chances are you most likely don't. Your attempt to justify yourself is pretty pathetic. Changed the quote to show why.
During the ancient time periods of those old empires such as the Roman empire and the Hang dynasty, killing was a different matter. Now we are in a different century and there is strangely controversy to preserve life at the cost of overpopulating the world by disabling natural selection. With the overpopulationg of humans, many animals have become endangered and extinct. In the end, something is going to die, but we would rather it not be us because no one wants to die and since we are the highest on the food chain, we get the final say in who dies and who doesn't
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The funny part is that I'm sure all of the people condemning you for stealing have pirated music or videos.
Also, here's some food for thought.
stealing:
-Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it: "thieves stole her bicycle".
-Dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own: "accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying".
Whether or not you get caught is irrelevant.
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On June 04 2012 08:05 MrZentor wrote:
The funny part is that I'm sure all of the people condemning you for stealing have pirated music or videos.
Everyone is more then welcome to voice their opinions. I like to see what different people say because it gives insight into what kind of logic and reasoning they use is.
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Cool for you that you managed to snag a bunch of more or less useful stuff and getting away with it. I don't approve of what you do, but such petty crimes don't strike me as anything special. Chances are everyone encounters people 10x worse than you on a daily basis...
A little piece of advice: Quit as soon as possible. Chances are you get away with it not because you're good, but because most stores' security is close to non-existent with them relying mainly on scaring potential thieves rather than tracking down actual thieves. That being said every now and then an unlucky thief gets caught due to unforeseeable circumstances. You don't want to be that guy...
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I was expecting your story to end w/ you getting caught, surprised me there 
Good job getting away with all that, but agreed with ggrrg, quit. When you get caught, stores start getting more secure and others have less luck 
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On June 04 2012 08:05 MrZentor wrote:
The funny part is that I'm sure all of the people condemning you for stealing have pirated music or videos.
I think most of us aren't necessarily condemning him, but more so the reasoning behind why he thinks it's okay to do it.
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Please stop before you turn 18 and get charged as an adult.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Bar the guy directly above me, people in here have been surprisingly nice. I kinda agree with him though, your actions are blatantly immoral, your justification ridiculous, and your response to the comparison to murder frankly quite scary.
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First, you are a piece of shit.
Fortunately I know some pretty decent people who had a "stealing phase." On the other hand, most of the thieves I knew growing up became progressively shittier.
Make the right decision.
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