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I used to know this girl. She was dumb.
She used to go in to Costco and steal other peoples photographs (after development they were put in an alphabetized container for people to pick up.) She would put them on her wall, so that she had a huge mural on her wall composed of pictures of strangers.
One time she got a photo album from a camp for the mentally challenged. She really loved those pictures.
I told her, "people are going to complain that their pictures are missing, and you are going to get caught."
She kept doing it.
Then she got caught.
They let her go, slap on the wrist.
I thought it would be a felony, haha. She can never go to that Costco again though.
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This one time I was out with friends and my sister just hanging out downtown. On the way home we're all packing into the metro(subway) and at the gates my sister informs me that she'd spent all her money and needed to use my card. I was pretty pissed. Metro tickets are literally 1 dollar here. Anyway I said we could squeeze through together but as soon as I scanned it she just went through. Theres like a 10 minute cooldown on the card to prevent passbacks. Now I was really fucking pissed. I ended up jumping the gates because I didn't want to be separated from my friends. Later while waiting for the bus outside a metro stop a Transport Ministry van pulled up beside the line and started doing -something. I got kinda jittery because I've heard of guards actually blocking off the exits of metros and demanding tickets from every passenger and hunting down fare skippers.
Nothing happened. I was mad at my sister for a couple hours.
As a kid (8) I stole a pack of gum. I got home and hid it in the closest without even opening it because I was sure if my parents found it they'd know I'd stolen it and get really mad. They didn't.
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At my highschool I got busted stealing food from the cafeteria with my group of friends. It was very easy to do and two of my friends were actually doing it all year until we got caught in may. School starts in September around here. Pretty much everyone did it though. A bunch of kids would crowd around the area to pick up food and then you take something and walk away. I was surprised that it took the school so long to notice that they were losing money.
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When I was younger, a friend and I would get 2 for 1 PC games at local chain stores by buying a game, leaving the store and opening the game, writing down the cd key and throwing away 1 of the CD's. We would go back in ten mins later and tell them we just bought it, and was missing the CD and every time they would let us go get a new copy. It was really quite easy. We were young and didn't have alot of cash so it worked. Pretty sure it would still work.
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I've only tried shoplifting twice in my life.
First was the stupidest thing ever. My friend and I went to a Smith's grocery store after (middle) school and were looking at the magazines. The issue of PC gamer wrapped in plastic had a demo for Hitman 2, which I really wanted to play, since my brother was a big fan of the first. I had my friend block the camera on the ceiling by facing me with his back to the camera. I ripped through the plastic, got the little paper case out, then had second thoughts and put it back.
When leaving the store, we were approached by security, taken to the back and held for like two hours. The dude would have let me go if I paid for the item, but I didn't have enough money. So in the end he walked us over to the school, told the Dean to watch over the two of us, called our parents, and calmly told us that we should probably stay out of the store for a few days. I got home and immediately deleted the message he left and then told my mom the story from my side... pretty much the way it happened, but it's always easier to do something yourself.
The other was probably around the same age, maybe a little older. Me and a few friends were in a Savers and they had the coolest little figure I had ever seen at the point: A FUCKING PIKACHU ON A PINK SURFBOARD. OMG... Ripped it out of the plastic, put it in my pants, and was nervous as hell as I walked out of the store.
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When I was in high school I worked in the butchery department of my local supermarket. My workmate and I got good at finishing our work (cleaning up after the butchers had finished) quite quickly and to combat boredom we got into this habit of going out into the store and grabbing food and drinks then going back to the butchery department to consume them. It was easy because we were wearing baggy overalls which hid everything plus at that time our supermarket didn't have any cameras. This went on for quite some time until one day I was busted drinking some strawberry milk out the back which I hadn't paid for by one of the butchers who turned up for some reason. All he did was make me go up to the checkout and pay for it. It freaked me out enough to make me stop though. Morally I didn't think it was so bad because it was a large supermarket franchise which paid it's workers crap wages while making big profits. I would never shoplift from a small shop.
Some high school friends had a friend of theirs working at the checkout of another supermarket. They would get a few groceries and she would scan them through but not scan the carton of cigarettes which was the most expensive item.
It is a buzz shoplifting, I can see how people could get addicted to it.
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i have never stolen anything and i hope i will never have to, yea i download from torrents but i cant understand how can someone stole anything from shops (yea candy when you are kid yea OK) but money or PC gear are you kidding me ? its feel wrong.
1. I had 2 classmates back in 2005 when we were 16 they stole candy but A LOT OF candy and they cough em (i never liked that 2 guys) they were so bad at it, just came to shop and took it, no plan what so ever. so many problems you can have from stealing. Its not worth of it.
2. There were a Gaming offline tournament last year where some players took PC gear. for the god sake ! how can you stole from sponsors who support your hobby and eSport.... wow thats stupid, really ?
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Hmm, like that other guy in this thread, the only thing I've ever stolen was a pokemon card when I was a kid after some other guy convinced me to do it together. I felt so bad afterwards, haha. As for shoplifting, I've never done it, but I remember a bunch of guys used to do it regularly during lunch in middle school. They would just wear a jacket, grab some candy bars or whatever and casually stick in a pocket. I also remember some guys bringing a backpack and filling them with whatever alcoholic beverage they found. I don't think anyone of them ever got in trouble, maybe except for one guy who constantly shoplifted.
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When I was 15 or 16 I stole a Zune from Target, I was on suspension so I would just go around and mess around. I decided to go check out what's going on at Target, and I saw a Zune that wasn't put back into the glass container so I put it in my sweater pocket.... It was totally visible that it was in my pocket and I high tailed it out of there, I got to the bus station and opened it up and was all happy I had a lot of adrenaline stealing that. I figured it wouldn't have the detectors go off since it would normally be in the glass case. I then took the bus down to the mall called The Block and went to go read or buy a book at Borders and it set off that alarm when I walked in so I walked out. I would go on but it wouldn't be about shoplifting anymore.
Around 16ish I got into graffiti-art and all that, and I stole a ridiculous amount of stuff mostly pens markers pencils.
I also got caught one time stealing a really gross cheese sandwich think from Smuckers or something at school.
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I just read that whole thread, and daaaaamnnn that's a really fascinating life story. Kinda crazy though, I have respect for him, even though he did ruin some people's lives (but at least he acknowledges it). Well, you reap what you sow..
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On October 19 2010 12:59 SpicyCrab wrote:
I used to know this girl. She was dumb.
She used to go in to Costco and steal other peoples photographs (after development they were put in an alphabetized container for people to pick up.) She would put them on her wall, so that she had a huge mural on her wall composed of pictures of strangers.
One time she got a photo album from a camp for the mentally challenged. She really loved those pictures.
I told her, "people are going to complain that their pictures are missing, and you are going to get caught."
She kept doing it.
Then she got caught.
They let her go, slap on the wrist.
I thought it would be a felony, haha. She can never go to that Costco again though.
hahahaha, that is actually really funny
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+ Show Spoiler +On October 19 2010 12:59 SpicyCrab wrote:
I used to know this girl. She was dumb.
She used to go in to Costco and steal other peoples photographs (after development they were put in an alphabetized container for people to pick up.) She would put them on her wall, so that she had a huge mural on her wall composed of pictures of strangers.
One time she got a photo album from a camp for the mentally challenged. She really loved those pictures.
I told her, "people are going to complain that their pictures are missing, and you are going to get caught."
She kept doing it.
Then she got caught.
They let her go, slap on the wrist.
I thought it would be a felony, haha. She can never go to that Costco again though.
That's pretty funny. The fascination of pictures of strangers reminds me of Amelie 
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First time I stole was real silly. I was about 10, some kids were playing checkers in the living room of one of the dorms during some summer boot camp. One of them was eating these things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bublik I noticed he wasn't looking while being occupied with the game so I came from behind, took one and ate it after relocating.
Second time I stole was once I turned 20. I walked into some store, probably Filene's Basement, noticed a nice golf jacket that was completely out of place on some random shelf, someone already took the exploding paint lock off and prepared it to be carried out. I tried it on, walked around for a bit. All the visible tags were taken off, it only had a price tag inside. I wasn't going to spend that much money but somehow I decided to wear it around for a bit. Found some t-shirt I liked and went to the register. On the way there I realized I'm just going to pay for the shirt and walk out like that, which I did. What do you know, karma is a bitch, that same week I dropped a cig on the jacket and burned 2 huge holes in it.
I took beer from peoples fridges before and picked up money that someone dropped in front of me or kept some extra cash from the register, sneaked into clubs and movie theaters for free, but that didn't constitute "official" stealing to me since you basically don't get caught (thus no stressing).
I haven't done any of that in about 4-5 years, in fact I've returned every bill/wallet I found on the ground and talked people out of stealing things from stores. In the past my own immaturity had a lot to do with this. Taking something that doesn't belong to you will not gradually better your existence unless you make it your living.
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On October 19 2010 08:28 Treeplant wrote:
At my high school people stole from the gas station store everyday. Some people would work in pairs, when one person with a backpack would bend over to tie their shoe, and their accomplice would slip in what they wanted (usually drinks or larger items for this riskier method). I personally used to just slide things up my sleeves as I passed a corner of an isle. Other more confident people would simply hold what they wanted in their hands as if they were a customer, and then simply leave with a group of paying customers.
It was a pretty common thing, and the store employees definitely acknowledged it, seeing as how they literally had 3 guards on duty during lunch break. Stealing from a convenience store is just as easy as you think. Also, if I recall correctly, there is a general rule for stealing in America that if you make it past the parking lot there is literally nothing they can do.
I don't encourage theft, but if you come from a poor family and need food, do what you gotta do.
It's not a rule for everywhere, but having worked several big box retail stores(grocery and electronics), I can say that most big places instruct their employees not to chase shoplifters out of the store.
In fact, at both the places I worked at(in MA) required that you:
See the person before they enter the aisle where the theft takes place
Not lose sight of the person at any point from that time to them exiting the store
See them pick up the item
See them conceal the item
Continue to watch them(again, can't leave sight even for a moment)
They have to pass the registers(if they are paying this means waiting for them to pay for the stuff they aren't stealing)
Leave the store
THEN you can attempt to stop them. If they run, you stand there.
In practice however, most would-be thieves get nervous once you start following them, and tend to "drop" things and put them on the shelf. Sayyy what is this $30 bottle of over the counter meds doing on the ground next to you on the other end of the store?
I once caught a woman using her retarded daughter as a cover.(Turns out it was a regular deal) She would take something, lean over her daughters wheel chair(girl was very very disabled) like she was checking on her, and slip small high ticket items into the back pouch of the wheel chair.
Then there are the dumb ones. We had a guy sprint through the front door to the back of the store, stuff his two coats(wearing both half zipped) full of steak and chicken, and sprinted out of the store. He got away with something like $200 worth of meat, but he dropped over $500. I still don't understand how he thought he was gonna run with more than his body weight in raw meat.
Most stores now have those magnetic(or RFID tags) on their pricey items. Smart stores buy the items with the strips prepackaged on the INSIDE. Cheap ones stick it on the outside.
Want to make your stolen item stealth and create a diversion? Peel the strip off carefully(bending may cause damage, no idea), and drop it into a purse, backpack, pocket, etc of another customer or an employee that you can get close to. Keep your eye on them, when they get in line, get in line with a super cheap item. Just spend a dollar. You finish your transaction, they finish theirs, they get caught, you walk out with whatever you managed to fit in your backpack. They walk away after 3 minutes of annoyance.
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I wonder what 700$ worth of meat looks like. Peeling the strip and creating the diversion sounds interesting, has anyone done this before?
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$700 looks like more than a man could conceivably carry, but some of it is $10-$15 a pound. There is a reason he only made it out with ~$200. It was the ~20 pounds of good stuff that he started with. There was cheap steak and bargain chicken all over the floor in the aisle that he ran down. It did suck for the store because the meat (mostly) had to be tossed, and this new hire was cleaning sticky chicken blood off the floor and products for the rest of his shift.
I've seen the diversion trick in action. The person who did it actually time it so well that the alarms were still going off from the other person, so even if they had messed up, they likely would not have been noticed.
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I worked at Old Navy for a bit and I remember a two dudes doing running starts with filled to the brim with kid clothes get away car was a mini van with no back seats. They had the doors open and just threw the carts right in and drove off. Like 4 of our staff saw and we were like this guy has poor taste there's a GAP down at the other end of the mall.
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I've been a cashier at a retail place for a while, and while I can't go after shoplifters or whatever I used to have to deal with a bunch of people that try return scams and other kinds of stuff that try to rip the store off.
Most of the time it's really easy to tell a scammer apart from a normal customer when you start the transaction. When I first started, the easiest way to tell was the way they smelled. More often than not the scammers smell funny, so whenever somebody smelled like a scammer all I would do is just pay a lot of attention to what they were doing and shut them down. That helped with figuring out a lot of the ones that you have to deal with during busy days.
Past the smell, after I had worked as a cashier long enough there's this little sense that I got in the back of my head that whenever someone tried something funny I could just feel that something was up. Most of the people who try to scam think they smooth as hell and can just weasel their way around, but they are actually just stupid. There's some people who try to distract you and make you look in one direction, while they try to put stuff in the pile you've already rung up. They think they are smooth as hell but I don't even have to look at them to know they're doing it, and I just pull out the item that they stuck in the pile and ask them if they wanted to pay for it.
Some people think they are smooth as hell, switching out the tags for a cheaper item (our tags are usually paper attached to a little plastic string thing) and putting it on something that they want. The lower level of people that do this are just retarded, because they don't even pay attention to the brand or the color of the item and tag they are switching. Eventually the customers start to get a little smarter, and match the color, the brand, and the size before trying to get to you, but they are still stupid because they have big fat hulking elephant hands and crimp the plastic string and mutilate the tag's hole that you can tell in an instant.
Some people think they are smooth as hell by taking the clearance price stickers from one tag, and putting it on another. These are really easy to stop because for one, it's really easy to tell when a tag has been tampered with, and two, these are the people that are so greedy that they lose all their senses. Where I work, we clearance things in levels, so the pricing team has to go by every time they go down in a level and put a new sticker on it, so when these people come up with these things that have a clearance sticker for 70 or 80 percent off of the original price, and the rest of the tag is completely clean, all I have to do is take the sticker off and when they tell me they want it for that price I just look them in the eye and tell them that a customer must have put that sticker there and I ask if they would like me to call a manager over. Most of the time they get scared of the manager (you'd be surprised at how much of cowards scummy people can be) and most of the time the manager will take my side unless it's something petty and stupid (I won't call a manager over for something that's less than 20 dollars unless I'm feeling spiteful, because it's just a waste of time).
My favorite kind of scammer though is the ones that think they are smooth as hell and try return scams. What they try to do in my store is that they return a bunch of stuff without a receipt, and then they want to buy a bunch of stuff at the same time, and they make it so what they buy is slightly more than what they returned, so they have to pay like a dollar or something in cash. Then they go to another register, it doesn't even have to be the same day or the same location, and try to return all the stuff they bought and get cash for it. Normally, you can only get store credit for returns without receipts, but with their way they can usually trick a stupid cashier (which is most of them) into doing something stupid. I've worked as a cashier long enough that I'm faster than they expect and they aren't able to do their scam the right way. One time, I finished this lady's transaction and stapled the new receipt five times (a good way to tell a scam is a mutilated receipt) so she would have a lot of trouble in taking it apart. She started yelling at me that she wanted to do things this certain way when I just explained to her that some customers try to do this scam (the scam she was trying to do) so we have to do things that way. Meanwhile she's trying very carefully to bend the staples out of the receipts so she can try it again.
Another guy I've seen about five hundred times and he's always trying to scam the store, and finally I'm able to get him to ring up with me. He wants to return this stuff, and he gives me the receipt that has a dollar of cash paid on it and the rest of the hundred something dollars not showing how he paid. I put a stop to things and before he is even able to start to take a step towards the exit of the store I get my radio and call (loudly) for LP to call me at my extension.
I had some guy try to do a quickchange scam on me, the one where he tries to distract you and hurry you up and get more change than he's supposed to. One of the cashiers I work with this guy had bought a towel from, and it was like five dollars so she started getting the change out (he wanted to break a hundred) and then he's like you know what, never mind I'll just pay with five dollars as she was giving him the change and she ended up getting confused and accidentally giving him the change, and his hundred back. A different guy tried something like that to me, saying that he gave me more money than he had and asking for more change. I just told him that no, you gave me this much money about fifty times before he turned into a coward and just gave up.
There was this incident at my store where this guy was pacing around with this air purifier. LP was watching him the whole time, and was waiting to see if he would pay for it or if he was just going to make a run for it. Finally, one of the LPs decided that he couldn't take it anymore and just started bolting up the escalator, which incidentally was only a moment before the guy decided that he was going to make a run for it, so all the other LPs followed closely behind. They managed to almost catch up to him (his truck as idling outside our pickup entrance) and grabbed on to him through the window of the truck, but the guy managed to get in and start moving and our LP, realizing that if he hung on that he would be crushed by the truck decided to just let go. The guy ended up driving over the curb and popping his tire, probably causing more damage to his truck than the amount of money that he was able to save by stealing the air purifier.
I wouldn't even mind if the people that tried to do this shit weren't so stupid. I mean at this point I find it almost like an insult that these stupid people think that I am retarded enough to fall for their stupid scams. If someone did something clever I can at least have some respect for them (there are about a million clever ways to steal from stores).
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Here's how you steal shit in most stores:
- Take shit
- Leg it
Most stores policies state they can only chase shoplifters to the door. Make sure you have a clear path etc. And do your research in advance to see which stores you can safely just run the fuck away from. Also don't get camera'd (hoodie, sunglasses, skimask w/e), don't shoplift at a store you're going to want to go to later and lastly make sure you're not fat and an OK sprinter.
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On October 19 2010 08:28 Treeplant wrote:
At my high school people stole from the gas station store everyday. Some people would work in pairs, when one person with a backpack would bend over to tie their shoe, and their accomplice would slip in what they wanted (usually drinks or larger items for this riskier method). I personally used to just slide things up my sleeves as I passed a corner of an isle. Other more confident people would simply hold what they wanted in their hands as if they were a customer, and then simply leave with a group of paying customers.
Yeah, we used to do this a lot in High School.
But, we would go to the mall and steal things from clothing stores. I'm pretty sure my whole wardrobe in my grad year was stuff we stole.
In all honesty, I don't even know where all my money went. Partying, food. I had a job too. So.
I've stolen things from jobs I knew I wouldn't get caught at and didn't care about. I suppose it's all about researching properly, figuring out how everything works, and then being confident about what you're doing.
Sounds bad to be talking about it in such a positive sort of way, isn't it? Kinda like it's a test. Haha.
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