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The value of my labor, daily.

The nominal “cost” of my healthcare, at every encounter.

Etc.

cashmaggot OP ,

Yeah, that's true. I once read an essay by a dyke who was a construction worker and wondered what life would be like if people just did the work they were interested in and everyone got paid a flat rate. I'm not sure it would work, but it is something to think on.

HUMAN_TRASH ,

About 20 years ago, when I was in middle school, some high schoolers stole a game (Halo for xbox) from me while I was walking home. I had borrowed it from someone at school.

cashmaggot OP ,

Also fuck them.

xmunk ,

Yea, I was walking home late at night with my hands full and my phone in my breast pocket. Two folks on an electric scooter zoomed by and grabbed my phone.

It fucking sucked.

cashmaggot OP ,

Fuck them.

FALGSConaut ,
@FALGSConaut@hexbear.net avatar

Besides the obvious like surplus labour value being stolen by my boss I’ve been stolen from a couple of times. I had my car broken into once (I accidentally left it unlocked since I had a family emergency to get to), they stole my jacket and some change out of the cup holder. I didn’t really care since I had more tragic matters to deal with at the time and if they needed to steal my jacket they needed it more than me. I was/am lucky enough to have a spare so I really didn’t think much about it. They did leave a half carton of coffee creamer behind though, I was a little confused about that

HubertManne ,

Im a bit busy but like I can't believe anyone can get to adulthood without having something stolen from them and likely stealing something to boot.

cashmaggot OP ,

Yeah, I hear that. I thought there would be more symbolic things in this thread. But it is true, cause we're little amoral monster that need guidance. I remember when I read Lord of the Flies for school and we had a discussion on if we we're born as such. And I remember everyone saying no, we've got what we need when we're born. I think there's some stuff in there, but nah. We're little monsters =P

xilliah ,

Yeah my new bicycle was stolen. Right where everyone could see it, and there were no other bikes. 250 euro lock.

I heard they use a spray to freeze the lock and then just break it.

Couldn’t have been happier because it was a piece of shit and my insurance got me a new one that I still have over a decade later! Karma is a bitch.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Yes, by pirates. They looted me art thinking they could get away with disregarding even any minimal courtesy for that, but I showed I can go full Julius Caesar on them, and with the power of a single prayer to mod, almost like magic, their very substance vanished in a puff of smoke. Don’t mess with creative minds.

cashmaggot OP ,

Yo, much love but that's actually like hard for me to read. I mean the text. Idk if it's cause I sit kinda back or my brain but I gave it a try and I couldn't get through it. But it sounds like a fuck-face stole your art and you got them to take it down. Which is ballin'! I knew one artist who got their stuff stolen by some Chinese company/artist something like that. They were despondant, but it seems like there's really nothing you can do in this scenario. Which stinks.

remotedev ,

About 15 years ago I went on a trip from San Diego to NY. We were staying in a shitty Days Inn in some some town. We left our luggage in the rooms, and went out for the day, and I had left my iPod nano in there. When we came back that evening, my iPod was gone and my package of brand new boxers was missing a pair also. I assumed they hid the iPod in the rolled up boxers. We went down to complain to the front desk but they didn’t give a shit. Lessons were learned that day. I was so excited to listen to Biggie “Going Back to Cali” on my way back to Cali and that’s what was REALLY stolen from me :(

cashmaggot OP ,

Maybe someone saw you listening to it on the way in and they don't get paid enough to care and grabbed something for their kid =_o! Sorry either way, that sucks. I bet you hated the rest of the trip too.

Karmmah ,
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We were on holiday at a camp ground when I was child. I had my Nintendo DS with me and I think during this vacation I even bought a carrying case and some games for it with my own money. During the day we would ride bycicles to other places so I left it in the tent buried under some stuff. One day when we came back i could not find it. At first I thought it could be stolen or my dad tried to hide it from me, because I played with it quite a lot which he wasn’ta fan of. So I tried to look through his stuff without him noticing to find it. But i didn’t find it and since i am quite reserved i didnt want to bring it up that it was missing.

In the end I think someone at that camp ground must have seen me use it and then waited for us to leave to steal it, since nothing else was stolen.

After that every time someone asked me why I wasn’t playing as much as before I told them that I didn’t feel like it. And I’m not sure whether they figured it out to this day.

cashmaggot OP ,

Yeah, I said something like that a second ago to the person who had their iPod stolen. Probably someone saw someone using it and ganked it. A couple of years ago my gal's hair dresser went on a hike with her boyrfriend and he brought his switch and left it in the car (idk if it was seen or not). But they broke the windows and stole it. And I later heard trail heads are easy targets for scummy people.

bizarroland ,

I crashed a friend's house one night, and I woke up and $50 was missing out of my wallet.

I asked my friend, who I knew had stolen it, "how can $50 disappear from my wallet overnight?" and he looked me dead in the eye and said:

"I don't know man. It's a mystery."

We aren't friends anymore.

xilliah ,

So did you ever solve the mystery? 😐

nichtburningturtle ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

Must have been the wind

xilliah ,

Maybe his friend’s wind 😐

ped_xing ,
@ped_xing@hexbear.net avatar

My surplus labor value at my first job, my second job, a few jobs in between and my current job.

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

My first ebike was stolen, about a week after I’d put it together. I was looking forward to zipping around my city with it. What really sucked is that I had bought it before getting laid off, and was looking forward to zipping around the city for fun while I looked for a new job. Luckily, I did find something new after 6 months and could eventually buy a new one.

cashmaggot OP ,

That super sucks, especially the timing. I'm sorry. I hope you're in a better place now?

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

I am, thank you! It’s pretty common in my city, the police took one look at the surveillance footage and shrugged it off. I hope the thief got a decent amount for it.

The new ebike was my first big purchase after getting the new job, and it’s a ton of fun. :)

cashmaggot OP ,

It's those small victories right? Hahaha! Thanks for putting a smile on my face =)!

p.s. - Cameras are so worthless more times than not. I was going to say most, but I do think a camera helped catch that messed up guy who killed those kids in Michigan (was it Michigan? The dorm kids). Either way, most times in my own experience cameras are worthless.

2xsaiko ,
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Someone stole my digital camera when I was a kid. I left it near the window at the place we were staying at for our vacation and someone must have grabbed it from the outside while we were gone. I was probably pretty mad about it back then. Nothing since, that I can remember right now at least.

cashmaggot OP ,

Hey, that's pretty good! I mean in the grand scheme of things.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep. Fucking hate thieves

Pushbike stolen … Many times. Once was kinda my fault for leaving it out, but every other time it was some cunt working hard to get a push bike. Every time I only found out just when I was going to the bike to go some where. One time, the bike was in a secure garage with two gates and the fucker secretly tail gated a car on foot to get in and then waited for another car to leave to tailgate them.

Motorbike stolen … it was a cheap and nasty one but still

Apartment broken into … 18th birthday present fancy watch stolen along gaming console

cashmaggot OP ,

Nah, never your fault. You were just being you. Humans make mistakes. Assholes just take advantage of that fact. That garage bit there is why I always tell my girlfriend safety is an illusion. Cause like you could have some Fort Knox shit going on, and still get absolutely screwed out of something. I mean, I'm still locking my doors. I'm not saying like...I'm not, but you know - if people see something they want they'll work their damndest to get it. I'm sorry people kept hitting you up, but I hope things are somewhat better now? At least on the homefront. I don't know about bikes, cause those things are still being stolen like crazy.

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
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Recent story but not me. A friend of mine just had his car stolen two days ago. He was going to bed around midnight and heard something outside, so he looked out the window just in time to see his vehicle rounding the corner on the street.

He phoned the RCMP who managed to catch the guy a few miles down the road. The thief had ripped the Sirius radio out of the vehicle but otherwise there didn’t seem to be any damage. My friend and his mom had picked up the vehicle the next morning and was driving home when they heard a loud “pop” and the vehicle caught fire, burning to the ground. (My guess is when the guy ripped out the radio some wires got damaged and shorted out.)

So now he’s scrambling to find a new set of wheels that he can’t really afford to do because he needs it to get back and forth from work which is 16 miles one way. He will eventually get some insurance money for the vehicle, but who knows how much, and that probably won’t be for a little while. In the meantime he’s kind of up the creek without a paddle.

cashmaggot OP ,

Getting a new car in a pinch is ass. Just pure ass. I think he can get a rental for now, but make sure he makes them move on it because otherwise he'll be ass-out on all of this. We had to deal with something similar recently, and it just was 100% booty. Used cars suck unebelievably right now too. If he knows someone with an older car who's looking to upgrade it might actually cost less to just buy it off the person than grab one from a dealer. But really, it's all just one giant ass-sandwich. Ugh.

xilliah ,

Just get a bicycle?

cashmaggot OP ,

I mean, yeah! But there's a ton of places in America (not sure about anywhere else) that you can't bike. I mean, like period. Even places you can, you're gunna get hit by a car at least once.

xilliah ,

Doesn’t it count as a road vehicle like in Germany? Wear a camera and a hammer. You can also get one of those sticks that sticks like half a meter out so they have to pass with legal clearance.

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