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  • #16
    When I was working with the police, they finally had to send a 70 year old woman to jail because she wouldn' t stop shoplifting bottles of mouthwash.

    She did it like 3 times before the Judge and the cops got tired of just sending her home and telling her not to do it anymore.

    Granted, it could have been dementia or alzheimer's at work, but, she seemed pretty coherent about what she was doing

    I honestly think she felt that at that age, she was entitled to small stuff.
    - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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    • #17
      gift cards...empty gift cards.
      look! it's ghengis khan!
      Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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      • #18
        When I was about four, I think I stole a single Hershey's Kiss from a little bin.

        I also stole doughnuts from Sunday School when I went. They were a quarter a piece, but the person manning the table wasn't real attentive, so I would take a nickel and two dimes and drop it in, so that there was that multiple coin clink, and then take two doughnuts instead of one.

        Never did go to confession for that one...

        I think the worst one I wasn't personally involved in was when I worked at a candy store and watched a couple of teenage boys stick a handful of gummi bears in their pockets. UNWRAPPED gummi bears, directly in their pants pockets. What they didn't realize was that I wasn't set to go on the clock for another hour (I just liked to hang out at the mall) so I followed them all around the mall until they finally freaked out and dumped the candy. They were, naturally, covered in pocket lint. BLECH.
        "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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        • #19
          When I worked in a grocery store with the butcher, the Reser's company had a new seasoning or some such that they had free promo packets of in a display at one end of our counter. I've forgotten how many times Mike, the head butcher, would just start talking out of nowhere to a customer along the lines of, "You don't need to steal those ma'am, they are free." We had people tucking themselves around the corner and reaching their arm around to get into the box, unseen, etc. One guy thought we wouldn't see him crouched down on the floor while he stuck his hand in the box. It was weird and made no sense.

          Finally, I just started "pushing" the item, "Hello, ma'am, would you like to take home a free sample of a new item, courtesy of Reser's?" so I wouldn't have to listen to Mike go on and on about people stealing free stuff and sneaking around.

          Boss' wife came to us at the end of the day, laughing about how her husband was trying to figure out which one of us to shut up. (His office window was right above our area).

          Life must be pretty hard for you if you have to steal free stuff. (Or they were embarrassed about being seen using said product?)
          ...how do used tampons attract thieves? ---Sleepwalker

          Chickens are Asexual!

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          • #20
            Quoth MadMike View Post
            I saw someone do that at the beach last summer. Considering that the manager was at the prize counter not even ten feet away from the machine, that was pretty stupid.

            And as if that wasn't bad enough, right after the guy got kicked out for it, another one, who had witnessed the whole thing, went up and did the same thing again, and seemed surprised when he, too, got kicked out.
            I wish... I only wish... that that was the exception, rather than the rule.

            Oh, and here's another one in the petty arcade theft department (told here before, but worth repeating): we had a mini-skeeball type machine that had a plexiglass cover over the scoring area. One day, the plexi broke, so we adjusted the payout so that the most tickets you could win was equal to the prior game average payout.

            Despite that, the machine doubled its weekly take. We never did replace the plexiglass.

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            • #21
              Quoth Gurndigarn View Post
              Despite that, the machine doubled its weekly take. We never did replace the plexiglass.
              That's just downright evil.

              I love it.
              "Time shall help me face my painful memories with indifference, and with more of it, I won't feel the need to face them at all..."

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              • #22
                Once when My hubby and I were working a seminar one of the customers stole his sunglasses.

                These were the magnet kind that stuck to his existing glasses. Still cant figure out what they were thinking but its our customers so who knows.

                At a different seminar we watched a woman take all the 50 pens from our registration booth and put them in her purse. Whats really funny is it turns out she was the wife of one of the speakers.

                The one and only time I ever stole anything myself.
                I was 13 and my mom and I went to Kelly Tires and I stole an awsome ashtray. Its a little tire with an ashtray in the center. I still dont feel guilty, even though I know I should.
                Last edited by braindead; 12-15-2006, 01:52 AM. Reason: I just remembered...
                I before E except after C. We live in a weird society

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                • #23
                  When I worked at the auto parts store, I had a guy try to steal one of those little bottles of air fresheners. When we detained him and called the police, he was suprised that we would call the cops over such a small amount.
                  If we let every little theft go, then soon we would have nothing to sell.
                  And the sky was full of stars... and every star, an exploding ship, one of ours...

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                  • #24
                    A can of coke off the trolley.
                    No longer a flight atttendant!

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                    • #25
                      I don't work there, but I imagine the staff at the Margaritaville cafe are sick to death of replacing all the salt shakers people steal. And steal them they do. After all, to their way of thinking, they just found "the lost shaker of salt."

                      Parrotheads. Can't live with them....can't use them for shark bait.

                      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                      Still A Customer."

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                      • #26
                        When I worked in Loss Prevention there was a teenager that stole the sticky things out of a box of fake nails. Her parents had to pay a $200 civil recovery charge for some 2 cent stickies.

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                        • #27
                          Quoth PrincessKatieAirHostess View Post
                          A can of coke off the trolley.
                          I can see the reasoning. It's not as if you're going to throw him/her off the plane when in transit over that...

                          Or are you?

                          Rapscallion

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                          • #28
                            Quoth Rapscallion View Post
                            I can see the reasoning. It's not as if you're going to throw him/her off the plane when in transit over that...

                            Or are you?

                            Rapscallion
                            LOL, well it still counts as theft and as such we can request police to meet the plane at their destination and arrest them!
                            No longer a flight atttendant!

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                            • #29
                              Quoth PrincessKatieAirHostess View Post
                              A can of coke off the trolley.
                              Admittedly, it's been almost 20 years since I stepped foot on a plane, but aren't sodas free while in the air?
                              Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

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                              • #30
                                Quoth Delacroix View Post
                                The moron who totally just RUNS out of the store with the ps3 game cases. I love watching their expressions when they're safely five feet out the door, they open the case to notice there's no game in it.
                                Lol! We have a display that features lots of lots of empty iPod boxes. People try to run off with the empty boxes, thinking, "Hahaha, this store is so dumb! They leave $300 iPods just out in the open!"

                                The most annoying petty theft is when people take one pair of socks or underwear out of package. We can't sell the package if there are pieces missing.
                                Last edited by Cosmic Cat; 12-17-2006, 01:58 AM. Reason: typo

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