You are right, and if this happened to me I would NOT actually vandalize the thiefs car—I wouldnt allow someones unethical, anti-social behavior to cause ME to act unethically or in an anti-social manner. That said, if people like the thief were assaulted or had thier property damaged in retaliation for thier theft, maybe they would think twice before taking something that does not belong to them…
Then again, someone who would behave in this manner in the first place may not be intelligent enough to learn thier lesson, even if the lesson is taught to them the hard way.
Man, the thought that there are people out there who get their rocks off by doing crap like that is pretty depressing but I bet people like that do exist.
I am ashamed to admit that I was a lunch-stealer once.
I was in my late teens and in a group-home situation. I had a part-time summer temp job at a county government office building doing low-level clerical work (stuffing tax notices into envelopes, stuff like that).
I was barely making minimum wage and had almost no money. I was always hungry. So, um, yeah, I pretty much stole from the office building’s fridges several times a week for food. I feel bad about it now. I was just so damn hungry all the time at that age and in that circumstance.
If the thief goes yum, dog food, then no harm done. If the thief goes yuck, dog food, then there’s not enough harm done to go anywhere. If the thief goes barf, barf, barf, dog food, generally does a drama queen flip out, and takes a few days off from work for stress, and complains of mental upset for an extended period, then Bob’s your uncle as far as a civil suit goes.
BTW, cat kibble is sufficiently nutritious that if one were to feed it to one’s grandfather each day at breakfast for a week under the guise of it being breakfast cereal, then one would find that one’s grandfather would have a great deal of energy with which to chase one with a plastic lawn mower for an extended period upon discovering what he had been fed.
That’s insane. There’s gotta be a way to market that. I’m always seeing commercials for those senior vitamins and nutritional drinks so there’s a fortune to be made here.
And how on earth did you get him to eat it for a week? Did you convince him it was just meat flavored cereal? Blegh!
I’d go with the cat food sandwich first, and then the nanny cam. Anyone who would steal food would probably steal from the company, too. And if at all possible, show the video to the boss (unless it’s the boss who’s stealing).
Let those without sin, casting stones, etc. I’m just thrilled to know why someone steals lunches. In this case I at least know. (And didn’t want to start a new thread about it.)
You probably meant that in jest, but when I was working for a law firm, I had to stay late one evening and, walking by the kitchen, I see one of the head attorneys just taking things from the fridge - yogurt, soft drinks, a hostess cupcake - that I know are from other employees.
(And yes, I told those employees the next day, and although they found it kind of funny that I had “caught” the thief in action, they never said anything but at least no longer felt the need to accuse/wonder about their other co-workers.)
You people are all too kind.
Call me a prick or whatever, but if some cretin were stealing my lunch, I would have a nice dog shit sandwhich waiting for them, nicely packaged in the fridge.
Call me old fashioned if you want, but there’s a few things you don’t fuck with:
People’s family, money and food.
Stealing someone’s lunch is just plain wrong and deserves a swift beating.
Here’s hoping your revenge sandwich works. However … if it doesn’t, go get a more secured lunchbox (say, with a padlock) and chain it to the inside of the frig! It’ll look weird in the frig, but who can fault you if the lunch thief won’t stop.
Yes it does. I had problems with someone stealing my lunch at work a couple years ago. Made deviled eggs with a nice big pool of Dave’s Insanity Sauce under the filling. Never lost a lunch after that.
Tuna and Jabanero Pepper sandwich is edible and would not be assault. There’s also the added bonus that the perp would be suffering mexican heartburn a day later.
