Silly thieves!

[GyroKat]

Hello there!

Ah yes, I haven't posted before as I don't have many stories. I've been a student most of my life, and I don't think I've had a job for more than a summer break or so. But here's some of the silly things that people steal:

A can of tuna.
A handful of nails. (Why not grab a hammer while you're at it?)
A single battery from a 10-pack.
A cucumber.
A small hook from a 2-pack.
Burglar alarms! (What, you steal to avoid thieves?! )

Why steal almost worthless items? Is it because you're really THAT poor, or could you just not be bothered to wait in line for that little?


But of all the weird things people steal, this takes the cake:
(Luckily I didn't witness this personally!)

A co-worker found an opened pack of menstrual pads on a shelf. A single pad was missing. Guess what was on the floor? A used pad. Yup. Apparently someone just HAD to change their pad right here, right now. In the middle of an aisle.

GROSS!

[TruthHurts]

Hello there!


A co-worker found an opened pack of menstrual pads on a shelf. A single pad was missing. Guess what was on the floor? A used pad. Yup. Apparently someone just HAD to change their pad right here, right now. In the middle of an aisle.

GROSS!

There are some seriously sick and wrong people in this world

[FenigDurak]

Most commonly stolen item from my store: "I'm a Big Brother!" buttons from the baby area.

[Ringtail Z28]

There are some seriously sick and wrong people in this world

It's caused from a lack of both shame and common sense.

[mariamousie1]

A co-worker found an opened pack of menstrual pads on a shelf. A single pad was missing. Guess what was on the floor? A used pad. Yup. Apparently someone just HAD to change their pad right here, right now. In the middle of an aisle.

GROSS!

That is the grossest thing I've heard in a while. I can understand having an emergency, but at the very least throw the used pad in the trash!

[blas]

Some people really ARE that poor and desperate.

At the gas station, the entire toilet paper holder was ripped off the wall (as in the entire fixture!!) because some dumbass wanted to steal ONE ROLL of toilet paper....(I hadn't quite made it to stocking the bathroom supplies yet).

[GyroKat]

Some people really ARE that poor and desperate.

Not here in Denmark. We've got a very extensive system to prevent poverty and homelessness, you'll have to try REALLY hard to be too poor for hygiene products. Trust me, I know. It costs us 50% in taxes, but I think it's worth it.

In conclusion, this person was just being disgusting and couldn't be bothered to pay just because she needed a single pad. She probably had more pads at home and didn't want to spend money on an entire package, she just needed one to last her until she got home. But really, she should have contacted the staff, we usually have some extra products in our staff restroom in case someone leaves home without it.

[Killer Bees]

Not here in Denmark. We've got a very extensive system to prevent poverty and homelessness, you'll have to try REALLY hard to be too poor for hygiene products. Trust me, I know. It costs us 50% in taxes, but I think it's worth it.

In conclusion, this person was just being disgusting and couldn't be bothered to pay just because she needed a single pad. She probably had more pads at home and didn't want to spend money on an entire package, she just needed one to last her until she got home. But really, she should have contacted the staff, we usually have some extra products in our staff restroom in case someone leaves home without it.

I don't understand that. Being girl myself, how could you leave the house knowing that you might need an urgent change sometime during the day? These things are blindingly self evident. That's just gross and yuck from a girly point of view, much less an innocent bystander point of view.

Women can be the worst dirty pigs sometimes.

[megami]

when i worked at a dollar store, we had people stealing menstrual items all the time. they had the courtesy of using the bathroom though...
one of my friends works in a petstore in the mall i work in now. most common thing stolen there? dogs. people just pick up dogs and walk out. average is two a month. it just blows my mind.

[Enjis]

How in the world do people steal dogs (puppies?)? Aren't they in locked cages? Geeze!

Also...we used to get people stealing one pair of socks from a three pack! Just steal the whole pack, dumbass! It's less paperwork for me if the whole thing is missing, and we just have to damage out the other socks if one is missing...so no one gets to use them anyways!

[megami]

in this pet store, they have the dogs in open kennels, so the people can pet them and stuff. i personally think it's a bad idea, especially when it's a saturday, four open kennels, and one person on the floor. no duh someone's going to try to walk out with a dog

[GyroKat]

I still don't understand why people would steal a puppy... very strange. But yeah, it's a bad idea to have them in open kennels, apart from being stolen, there's the risk of people feeding them unhealthy stuff, hurting them, or giving them diseases (and spreading disease from one puppy to the rest if they touch them all, in case one of them are becoming ill and the staff hasn't noticed yet)

[SuperB]

People will steal just to do it. Whether they feel it's a way to get something free or to protest prices, whatever, people suck. Most of the shoplifters I catch come up to the counter to buy something else and I'll either just add the item I saw them take to the total or I'll confront them. Depends on the person. I can't tell you how many people have thought they've gotten away with something when in reality, I've charged them for it.

[Noelegy]

I don't understand that. Being girl myself, how could you leave the house knowing that you might need an urgent change sometime during the day? These things are blindingly self evident. That's just gross and yuck from a girly point of view, much less an innocent bystander point of view.

Women can be the worst dirty pigs sometimes.

There have been many times throughout my life since menarche that I have had to remind myself that not everyone's mother raised them as well as mine raised me. And then I remind myself to be thankful for that raising.

One of those occasions was when I was in high school and we went on a weekend trip down to the coast of Texas for a band competition. We stayed in a hotel, 4 people to a room, girls on one floor, boys on another (and they put pieces of tape on our doors at night to make sure we weren't sneaking out).

I got up one morning, and on the little table in the room there was an, um, heavily used pad, laying on the table, used side up. I reacted with some anger and disgust. I mean, really: even if the bathroom was occupied, which was a strong possibility in a room being shared by 4 girls, the perpetrator (who never did fess up) couldn't roll it up and put it in a trashcan?

Psycho2 lived with me for a short time while trying to get on her feet (read: being forced by me to grow a backbone and get a life), and she had the use of the upstairs bathroom. Since my office was upstairs, I would also use that bathroom from time to time, a practice I quickly stopped, because I was liable to encounter either a trashcan stuffed full of unwrapped used hygiene products, or her giant economy-size undies left where she'd stepped out of them, crotch up, in front of the toilet.

She genuinely couldn't seem to understand the reason for my outrage.

I'm not a prig. I know the facts of life. Women bleed. It's an inefficient method of letting the body's owner know once a month, "Hey! You're not pregnant!" and I wish that humans would have evolved out of it by now, but I know it happens. However, my mom taught me that there's a way to deal with the by-products so that they don't inconvenience or otherwise gross out others.

[Noelegy]

I still don't understand why people would steal a puppy... very strange. But yeah, it's a bad idea to have them in open kennels, apart from being stolen, there's the risk of people feeding them unhealthy stuff, hurting them, or giving them diseases (and spreading disease from one puppy to the rest if they touch them all, in case one of them are becoming ill and the staff hasn't noticed yet)

Tell me about it...my puppy that we just adopted from an ASPCA event has come down with kennel cough. Fortunately, the ASPCA has a deal with local animal hospitals that if the adoptive pet develops any of a short list of conditions within 10 days of adoption, you can get the pet treated for free at the hospital. It wasn't exactly convenient; the closest hospital to me was a 30-minute drive away, but other than the cost of gas, it was free and he received excellent care and free antibiotics.

(OFF TOPIC) Go see my !! 2 months old, Great Pyrenees/blue heeler mix, named Rocky:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...gPix0087-1.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...gPix0083-1.jpg

Can you believe he was from an unwanted litter?