# I pit thieves **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608 "2010-07-30T18:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/1 "2010-07-30T18:13:18Z")
Some pig-fucker managed to withdraw some money from our checking account without our permission. I hope whatever you buy with the money kills you, slowly and painfully, you reeking glob of human filth. And then I hope I am right and there is reincarnation, and you come back as a lab animal that gets used for some incredibly painful experiment. FUCK YOU, thief! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/2 "2010-07-30T18:47:37Z")
I can get on board with this pitting. Thieves suck. The last time that happened to me, I suspect it was someone working for my rental management company who stole the money - who has had access to a signed cheque of yours lately? Actually, a couple of times my bank paid someone else’s bills from my account - have you checked into what happened with the transaction? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/3 "2010-07-30T19:06:57Z")
Fuck them with a red-hot poker. How much was it? Anything you’re going to feel? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/4 "2010-07-30T19:39:56Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Fuck them with a red-hot poker. How much was it? Anything you’re going to feel? It doesn’t mean we can’t pay our bills this month (fortunately it wasn’t our main checking account), but it was over $2000, so yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/5 "2010-07-30T21:07:50Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > It doesn’t mean we can’t pay our bills this month (fortunately it wasn’t our main checking account), but it was over $2000, so yeah. Fuckin’ A. On the bright side, it’s my understanding that banks usually give this money back and take the hit themselves. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/6 "2010-07-30T21:36:16Z")
I totally agree with the OP, especially after [this horrible experience](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433420) 3 years ago. And the bastard who stole my wallet wasn’t even smart enough to use my credit cards; all he wanted was the cash . . . which I would have given him if I had that option. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/7 "2010-07-30T21:43:05Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I totally agree with the OP, especially after [this horrible experience](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=433420) 3 years ago. And the bastard who stole my wallet wasn’t even smart enough to use my credit cards; all he wanted was the cash . . . which I would have given him if I had that option. I had my purse stolen in 1999. I still kind of hope whoever did it came to a bad end. Ideally involving some sort of gruesomely fatal sexually transmitted disease received while being gang-raped. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/8 "2010-07-30T21:46:18Z")
Wednesday morning, someone unscrewed the spray nozzle from my front hose and cut off the end, stealing the male fitting and a few inches of hose and leaving the $15 nozzle behind. 😕 The cost of a male adapter is $5. The cost of a hose splice clamp, which you need to join the stolen end of the hose to an existing hose, is $5. Haven’t figured out the cost/benefit ratio to this one yet. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/9 "2010-07-30T22:09:57Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > Wednesday morning, someone unscrewed the spray nozzle from my front hose and cut off the end, stealing the male fitting and a few inches of hose and leaving the $15 nozzle behind. 😕 > > The cost of a male adapter is $5. The cost of a hose splice clamp, which you need to join the stolen end of the hose to an existing hose, is $5. > > Haven’t figured out the cost/benefit ratio to this one yet. Are you sure about how much hose they took? I’ve heard of people doing that to get a hose to siphon gas. (would probably need about 3-4 feet.) ETA Oh yah! Thieves suck! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/10 "2010-07-30T23:41:07Z")
Someone stole my scientific calculator when I was 12. I will fucking hate that person forever No, I’m not being sarcastic, I really really hate thieves! :mad: I got a guy suspended because I caught the little shithead trying to break into my locker in high school. I would have drowned him if I could ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/11 "2010-07-31T00:02:00Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I really really hate thieves! :mad: I got a guy suspended because I caught the little shithead trying to break into my locker in high school. I would have drowned him if I could The piece of garbage that stole my purse in 1999 got my driver’s license (with my address) and my house key. I was worried at first that they’d come and break into the house. Then I realized that I rented a room from a family that owned two Rottweilers. Any burglar would probably think twice on seeing the Rottweilers in the backyard. Then I wished the scum would try to break into the house, so I could let the dogs loose on them. (The Rottweilers were pretty friendly- I don’t know what they actually would have done) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/12 "2010-07-31T01:47:47Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Any burglar would probably think twice on seeing the Rottweilers in the backyard. > > Then I wished the scum would try to break into the house, so I could let the dogs loose on them. (The Rottweilers were pretty friendly- I don’t know what they actually would have done) Maybe the piece of shit would have a massive coronary. That works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/13 "2010-07-31T04:17:15Z")
We had some fancy solar lights stolen from beside our house this summer - right up next to the house. They left the spikes to stick them into the ground, though. Thieves suck and they don’t make any sense. Senseless thievery. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/14 "2010-07-31T04:42:34Z")
I had 2,000 stolen from a savings account, plus 4,500 (!?!?) in overdraft when I was 16. That’s a lot, considering it was all money I had worked for at the time. I wasn’t so much angry, as confused. The first person I talked to at the bank refused to acknowledge that it might be fraud, apparently they were adamant about my purchasing 500+ USD worth of gift certificates from local restaurants, stores, etc. I spoke to their manager, lodged some sort of complaint or other, and hopefully got the douche nozzle fired. I was more pissed about being told “this won’t be reported as fraud,” than the fraud itself. ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/15 "2010-07-31T08:54:44Z")
Someone stole my pregnant wife’s bike last week. I keep imagining seeing sombody riding it around the neighborhood so I can tackle them. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/16 "2010-07-31T10:29:59Z")
Guy apparently used my Dad’s name and checking account to sign up for a rifle magazine. We never received it, and years later, we owed $300. Seeing as we made only $25,000 a year (long story), and were living hand to mouth, it really hurt us. It’s the first in a long line of things that led to my parents’ distrust of banks–something they are just now getting over, after my sister hasn’t had these same types of problems, despite having an account for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/17 "2010-08-01T04:25:36Z")
The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend this year, I tried to use my checkcard to buy some bread at Walmart. It was declined, which seemed strange to me since I had a few hundred dollars in it. When I got home I checked my checking account online and discovered I was overdrawn by $400. Someone had spend almost $700 dollars from my checking account in less than a week, most of the charges coming in the last 2 or 3 days. Of course, I found this out at 4:45 pm and the bank closed at 4:30 pm. I checked a few of the places the charges had been placed. One was a dating service in the UK. The rest were job hunting websites, resume writing websites, and headhunter agencies. All charged to my check card. My credit cards didn’t have anything unusual on them and my credit records look okay. But the local police keep wanting to make it identity theft, instead of credit card theft. All of the stuff that was charged is useless unless the thief’s real name and address were used on it, but I have heard nothing from them about actually finding the person responsible. And I really want to press charges against that person. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/18 "2010-08-01T05:40:49Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Are you sure about how much hose they took? I’ve heard of people doing that to get a hose to siphon gas. (would probably need about 3-4 feet.) Reasonably certain, but short of unrolling the whole hose I dunno. If they were just siphoning gas, though, I don’t know why they took the male hose fitting as well. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/19 "2010-08-05T14:49:41Z")
The motherfucker tried to open a cell phone account in Mr. Neville’s name, too. Fuck them with a rusty chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thieves/548608/20 "2010-08-05T14:55:10Z")
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