Have any of you shoplifted before? - Who says crime is only considered a "man and minority thing?"

[Jimmy Hopkins]

Ive done it multiple times but it's been years since I last did. Only got caught one time. When I was in sixth grade I was with a friend that was a bad influence and we went to a local grocery store and stole some candy to bring back to his house. In particular Smarties. The reason why is because in middle school we would "smoke" Smarties, aka keep them in the plastic and rub them together until the friction causes them to brake apart and turn to powder. You then unroll one end and inhale the powder and when you exhale it looks like smoke. Absolutely retarded but thats what middle school zoomers did at the time.

We made it out of the store and all the way down the street then heard "YOU BOYS COME BACK HERE!" and turned around to see a winded fat Mexican lady chasing us. We proceeded to sprint home and evaded any trouble. Yeah we were shitheads.

 

[Super Guido]

Not on purpose. Sometimes I'd forget something was in my cart in the self-checkout, and then realize I didn't pay for it because it wasn't something I bagged.

I had a crazy bitch who runs a store accuse me of theft. I was interrogated by her (she asked what time I was there, who checked me out even though no one there wears name tags) and I think the employees are scared of her, because even the people that were there when I bought them threw me under the bus. The whole ordeal was so insane, I cursed her out and haven't been back in years.

Just remembering this makes me mad.

 

[Cornelius_118]

When I was a teenager, my Dad would take me and my younger sister to one of those mega-malls a couple times a month. If he didn't have enough money to get some of the stuff that we wanted, he would take out a plastic bag and tell us to take anything that we wanted and walk as quickly as we could out of the mall as long as they didn't have one of those anti-theft tags on them. He knew it wasn't a great thing to do, but he has the 'people have done way worse' mentality.

 

[Ruined by the Rain]

-snip-

Calm down

 

[rosecig]

I miss shoplifting tumblr and reddit

 

[Detective Carey]

I have never stolen, not that I couldn't, but it just feels counterproductive to me working to earn money to spend. If I'm stealing, why the fuck did I bust my ass at work? It's really a self respect thing if you think about it. Outside of having a gaggle of starving children to feed when you're between jobs and broke, stealing is cringe. Like imagine your mom or grandma or dad or grandpa, or whatever closest ancestor you have and know/remember? Would THEY approve of you being a sticky fingered little fucktard? I think not. Have some goddamn respect for those that paved the way before you and participate in society with at least some sort of veneer of honesty. Otherwise we're all gonna burn.

 

[SpergPatrol]

I can spot a FED when I see one

 

[Kiwisee]

I tried to do it once, got caught, never did it again because there's no way I was going to jail over a hairbrush. I was a teenager at the time, and didn't like the prospect of ruining my life.

 

[fadededcrossblur]

Somebody must have been lurking on the reddit page over few of the posts i've made on there that talks about the shoplifting fuckery that reddit has.

To answer ops question no, but i have seen occasional cases very rarely of people shoplifting and getting caught in the wild and my parents watch alot of shoplifters getting caught and make sure they always carry a recepit on them at all times and to pay for everything as they have 0 tolerance for dine and dash type fuckery.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Used to nick stuff regularly as a kid as we had very little money for dodgy 80s fashions. Skipping school meant no school dinner, so me and my mates would usually nick some food as well.

Occasionally snitched stuff when my babies were young due to no money, but only when desperate for essentials. Shops got wise to people walking out with big bags of nappies slotted under the pushchair and started putting tape or ties on them.

I never got caught, but a couple of my friends did. One is apparently supposed to be banned from Superdrug for life. Yeah, like they’ll remember her half a country away and 20 years later.

 

[El Goblina]

I've stolen twice, that I recall: once was an SD card at Target, once was a set of rechargable AA batteries. I also had a tendency to snack on bulk candy while grocery shopping, maybe a dozen times. Evidence would be gone before I hit the till.

It's degenerate nigger behaviour. Don't do it.

 

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[Hitler Hadid]

I was a huge binge eater as a teen, so I would mostly steal ice cream, pastries and candies. Occasionally I would steal some makeup, cheap H&M necklaces and clothing. I would also order stuff online and then make a complaint about my package being stolen so I could get a refund/store credit lol. I stopped stealing and stuff maybe like 5 years ago.

I have been caught twice when I was underage, never as an adult. Nothing bad happened when I got caught, my parent just had to come to the store and pick me up. One of the stores did ban me from entering for a year though

 

[Jacknife]

I often downgrade the prices of similarly looking articles of bakery, fruit and vegetables at self-checkout registers

No regrets

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

houses of CEOs if they hate them or in other upper level areas,

That's burglary, and you'll be in a much bigger heap of trouble (and possibly wind up shot, deservedly).

We had a crew hit my road several years ago in the middle of the night. A prime target neighborhood, expensive houses, secluded and large lots covered in trees, no streetlights, and exceptionally low crime in general, so people don't always lock up every single thing or set the alarm every night. And apparently leave laptops and other expensive electronics in their cars in the garage, or right inside the house. They were caught by an on-the-ball cop later that morning on the nearest 4-lane road, 6 young men jammed in a tiny shit-car that was speeding at 5 am, looking sweaty and nervous, with a metal briefcase (filled with pilfered goods) and other visible and odd-seeming items in the back seat. Almost all of the houses were occupied. They only didn't hit mine because I was outside with my dog, who had an electronic fence but a large lot to run, and a fierce bark (I was on the back deck so saw nothing and heard nothing except my dog going nuts, which I assumed was due to deer or some other creature so wasn't alarmed, probably for the best), but they dumped someone else's emptied purse in my trash can down by the road (trash day the next day). They actually got some (executed) jail time for that and at least one other job - they were at least suspected of targeting a number of neighborhoods over a period of many months.

The notion of 2, 3, 6 criminal young men coming into my home (then occupied either by just me or me + kids [they were not at home that night]) in the middle of the night is kind of terrifying. As is knowing they cased it out beforehand. Thank God for the Best Dog Ever, and my poor sleep patterns at the time.

A long time ago (30 years ago) I knew someone (under 21) who got caught shoplifting on Federal property. They got a pre-trial diversion but got a year's probation and had to perform more community service than Nick Rekieta, a 40-something lawyer (at the time), did this year in Minnesota for possessing 26.7 grams of coke in a home with kids, guns, and swingers.

 

[Chromeo]

Once in a while I find something on the floor that was part of a product that broke or something, and I'll take it if I want it. A little upholstered pumpkin from a fake flower bouquet at Walmart, a blind bag keychain I found under a shelf, things like that.
I don't think it's 100% above board, but it's always small shit with no value that doesn't even have UPCs to scan to write off as damaged or claimsed.
I know at a past job they'd throw out some items instead of claimsing them, I'm not proud, I'll take cool shit out of the trash. Is it stealing if they'd throw it away?

 

[AMHOLIO]

Thank God for the Best Dog Ever, and my poor sleep patterns at the time.

Best dog!

Yeah, it's not something I want to encourage either, but I'm for people who justify it as "stealing from the rich only" putting their money where their mouth is on it.

Edit: "I steal because I didn't want to pay for it but wanted it anyway" is at least honest. I think being open about being a dick is a good way to go.

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

Once on purpose, before I even hit my teen years. I stole a chapstick from the checkout line. My mom noticed when we got home and drove me back to pay for it and apologize. I got my ass beat and was grounded.

Once, on accident maybe a decade ago. The soda at the bottom of my cart didn’t get rang up. I noticed when I looked at the receipt at home. I’m a bit ashamed now to say I didn’t do the right thing and drive back to the store and pay for it. At the time, I reasoned it away. “It was the employees fault. I should not have to load up my kids and drive all the way back to the store.” I KNEW It was wrong of me. I would be disappointed in my children if they did the same. It shows a lack of integrity, which is doing the right thing, even if nobody is looking.

 

[Chromeo]

Something else I thought about, when I worked at a place that threw out big bags of donuts every night, what's the difference between taking one out of the trash and taking the same donut out of the case 5 minutes before it gets trashed? I should've "stolen" more donuts when I worked there tbh.

 

[Baumstriezel]

There's a reason we used to flog thieves and behead those who committed fraud, you ain't stealing a lipstick, you're fucking over the entire fucking system

I think more people should lift, actually, because I’d love to read more of this kind of seething wagie rage