I have not shop lifted anything but when the wife and I were first dating we changed the prices on a couple of bathroom mats in Walmart to make the one we were buying dirt cheap.
Not exactly Bonnie and Clyde I know, but it felt daring and was potienially embarrassingly dangerous.
My oldest son and a friend who are otherwise honest people put on a pair of cheap ear rings at a counter in K-Mart and walked out of the store with them in their ears. They were arrested immediately. They were under age so they were admonished by the K-mart people and told that they were banned from all K-mart stores on the North American Continent.
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Lots. Once when I was in girl scouts and I was about 10 years old we went on a trip to Savannah. I took something from every single gift shop that we went into. I wasn’t caught by any of the stores, but my girl scout leader noticed that I had so much stuff and I hadn’t come to get any money from her, but I talked my way out of it. Come to think of it, I can’t believe I got away with it.
Yeah, once, as a teenager, not in my hometown though. Almost got caught and never did it again. And we rummaged through cars parked at a local dance hall, looking for liquor and cigarettes. It was amazing, how many people had guns in their cars – we left those alone.
I had a boyfriend who rustled sheep (there was money in it – no jokes please), and he also had a garage full of hubcaps and hood ornaments. He was known locally as the Midnight Auto Supply.
And a brother-in-law makes it a practice to steal at least one thing from every store or gas station he goes into, every single time. He’ll pay for stuff, but has to steal something, even if it’s just a pack of gum. (He’s weird in other ways too.)
When I was a freshman in high school, a friend and I would swing by the local Ben Franklin store after basketball practice, and load up our practice bags with pens, markers, candy, and other crap we didn’t actually need.
Finally got caught, too. When my dad came to get me, I thought I was gonna get a pretty good beating. But he didn’t say anything to me. For days. It was worse.
I think my friend got grounded for a month.
Haven’t stolen anything since. Pretty cheap for a life lesson, all told.
I’ve been a lurker up till now, really wanted my first post to be on a funny thread. Off to the Great debates…
Well, I’ve never actually shoplifted, but whenever I go to a school function at a nice place (like the winter formal or prom) I steal a spoon, a cloth napkin, and/or a part of hte centerpiece. And when I’m out with my friends on gallavants, we take any NASCAR-themed cardboard product display we can hide on our persons. I have two mountain dew racing team signs and a bunch of Coke things.
There was a time when I was 14 when I probably stole 2-3 bottled drinks every day. I think I may’ve been largely responsible for the store’s installation of security cameras. I feel pretty bad about it now.
Tells a lot about me that I’d steal pizza. Our school store sells littel caeser pizza. My friend and I had a system, he’d get 4 pieces and I’d get 2 and both get a bottled pop. I’d walk away and no one would notice me, if they said anyting my friend behind me was paying for it. Everyday for about 5 months.
My friend, the other day, relieved the local Sunfresh of 34 fifths of various alcohols. Kee-rist. It’s a wonder the klepto didn’t get caught. I can’t wait till he gets arrested. I’m gonna laugh my arse off.
The school lunch line is a prime target. Many times I would order two slices of pizza, and , since it was not in a box, just two slices one a tray, then I would just eat one on the way to the check-out.
Another time, my friend and I went into some random Halmark-type store, and there were these stupid little high-heeled-sandal key-chains. We went up to the register and asked if we could have them, and she said sure. She also let us take some weird pens that were leopard-print and had big fuzzy balls on the top of them…
About twelve years ago, I went on a major shoplifting binge. Mostly heisted stuff from bookstores where I had applied for jobs, and hadn’t even gotten an interview, and went back and found that they had hired some ditz who probably didn’t know what the little black marks on the pages were…
I was out of work looking for a job to pay the rent, and they mostly wanted high school and college kids who just wanted to make some extra money.
Stealing stuff from them was my way of getting revenge for their not hiring me for a job that I needed and was more qualified for then the person who wound up getting it.
Anyhoo, I probably go away with about $200 worth of books, Tarot cards, etc. Never did get caught.
Aha, where I’m from, altering price tags is considered a form of shoplifting.
I shoplifted when I was a punk kid. I didn’t shoplift again until I shoplifted today. It was an accident. Really. At Kmart, I put a bar of soap on my infant daughter’s lap as she lay in her car seat. Then, I forgot about it until we got out to the car. I was putting her car seat in the car when I noticed she still had a bar of soap in her lap.
Muhahaha. No I never shoplifted anything. Not in my whole life.