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intensely_human ,

I was a kid once and heard a group of kids following me. I was trick or treating.

Heard them coming up behind me and was expecting them to attack me. Instead one of them just grabbed by bag of candy and ran off.

I started to go after them but my friends stopped me and said with all the solemnity a 7 year old could muster, “let it go”.

They shared their candy with me.

cashmaggot OP ,

Those are good friends =) I don't think it would have played out great otherwise. Cause of that kinda hive-minded crap, where people do way worse when in groups than by themselves.

theparadox ,

In maybe third grade I brought my collection of x-men trading cards as part of a sort of show and tell activity. It was in a sizable three-ring binder with those 3x3 slot cars sheets. I had a number of highly valued “foil/hologram” cards. The binder was gone when I got back from lunch. I was devastated and learned to never leave anything of value not locked up if I’m not watching it.

At work we have a kitchen/break room. I’ve had shit stolen from there a lot. Utensils, cups, bowls. Wash it after lunch, put it in the drying rack, come back in an hour to get it and it’s gone. Once my department had a leftover pizza from an event donated to us. I brought in a baking sheet to reheat it in the oven for a lunch morale boost for the team because we had to work that weekend. The sheet, left in a drawer and not visible to any casual observers, was gone by Monday. That was actually the first item I’d had stolen there but I thought I was just s fluke.

I’ve literally bought upgrades and utensil sets for the kitchen (maybe people “stealing” my utensils just forgot to bring a fork, borrowed mine, and brought it home by accident?). Stuff like drying towels, soap dispensers + large refill bottles, a microwave food cover… all stolen. I’d keep getting frustrated with, for example, people leaving the sponge wet in the sink. I’d think “its been a year since I last donated something, maybe it’ll be different this time…” and I’d buy an OXO sponge holder or something and within a week it would be gone. Everyone in my office, including secretaries and cleaning staff, gets paid at least a living wage with great health benefits. Some make well over 100k. I just imagine someone making twice my salary seeing a nice soap dispenser and taking it home… lost a good bit of faith in humanity and affected me way more than it should have.

I found a solution though. Whoever was stealing this shit couldn’t deal with the shame of being reminded that they stole it. I started labeling the donated items using my organization’s acronym with a permanent marker in big visible letters. None of that’s been stolen. I was going to engrave my utensils/dishes but decided instead to look like an asshole and bring my own towel when washing my dishes, drying them immediately, and taking them back to my desk immediately.

cashmaggot OP ,

Do they still do Show and Tells? Cause I def remember this happening to me too. I think if I were a school, I'd nip it in the bud. I am not sure if it's to practice speech giving in a inoffensive way. But things that promote theft among students isn't great. Especially where there are open spaces (like backpacks just hanging out). But I wouldn't know, I haven't been in a setting like that in a long time.

This second bit hurts, because I know it can be like the Wild West in scenarios like this. I think it's because people are disgruntle but have to act is if they have one setting - "Plesant." And it probably increases if there are corporate culture rituals tucked into the workday. I think doing little things like stealing the nice stuff from the office probably is a way to act-up without getting in trouble. But also some people are probably terribly ADHD (and undiagnosed/untreated) and will walk off with things like forks and stuff because they were being total space cadets.

I think you're on the money with the last bit. People would be glueing goofy stuff to things they like all over the place when stuff started going up I think around the 10s (Maybe a little bit earlier bc of 08) so that stuff couldn't be taken without a) being easily recognized and b) being difficult to take in the first place.

Also with the "joy" of toxic-masculinity men wouldn't even dare take something so "fruity" and I know that unfortunately the sentiment is still shared with certain kinds even to this day. You seem to have found the easiest solution, which is dorm-rules =_o!

Zahille7 ,

When I was in middle school, I had these really cool (imo) Nike’s that were all white except for the stitching, sole, and the trim on the tongue and the inside were a bright, almost neon green. I saw them in the store at the NEX when we were visiting my brother when he graduated boot camp, and I begged my grandpa to get them for me, and he took a or of convincing and he finally broke down and got them for me. I was so happy about those things, I wore them all the time. One Friday night, when I was at some youth thing at a local roller rink that they put on every Friday night, some bastard kid stole them! I was so upset about it, I had to use the phone at the place to call my mom and tell her what happened. I had to sit around in my socks like a jackass until my mom came to get me. I was super bummed about it for a long time; tbh I still kinda am.

Then later, also in middle school, during a school event at night during the winter, my mom’s car got broken into and her purse was stolen from inside. That was very upsetting for both of us.

cashmaggot OP ,

Legitimately I grew up thinking why you can't have nice things because some asshole always swoops in and takes them from you. I always wonder who all is out here just taking this stuff? Like, you know you've gotta still cohabitate around these people. They at some point in your life gotta look you in the eyes o_o and have that heat on them.

Eh. There's gotta be some science behind it. I wonder how much is compulsive @_!?

p.s. - I have a friend who had to lie one way or another. They told me they'd say some of the stupidest lies they could so that they could get it out of their system and talk to others normally. I wonder if thieves were out here just taking pens at banks and shizz if they wouldn't feel the need to be ganking so many people's stuff.

BugleFingers ,

I lived in an apartment complex in my early 20s. Left the car unlocked one night and someone rummaged through it. The only thing they took was my prescription sunglasses. It aggrivates me to think that the moment they tried it they realized it was a prescription and threw em out. $600 just gone to steal something absolutely useless to anyone but me.

Like bruh.

cashmaggot OP ,

Woah, I talked about someone who had their car broken open and the only thing they took was sunglasses @_. Totally, like bruh moment. I've heard people say it's easier to keep nothing in your car and keep it unlocked than to keep it locked with stuff in it. Shrugs.

Either way fk thieves!

FALGSConaut ,
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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

AceSLive ,

People broke into our house while we were upstairs with our 1 week old baby, at 1am. They took our keys and our car. We have 4 kids. No way to get them to school or me to work.

Turned out they were aged between 15 and 17 and got a slap on the wrist. We got an insurance payout and a different car.

Ridiculous.

10_0 ,

Yes, you stole my heart

cashmaggot OP ,

<3 <3 <3!

Here's three back, pass two on, steal another - keep the cycle going =)!

PumaStoleMyBluff ,

I took my bike out for a trail ride, decided to stop at home for a quick refill of water before going out again. I was in my house for under 3 minutes and my bike was stolen from my enclosed front porch.

Reported it with serial number to the police and a stolen bike website but never heard anything back.

I was in college and had to start leaving for classes 20 minutes earlier. I was pretty angry at the time. Now l’ll never leave a bike out of my sight unless it’s locked indoors or with two U-locks.

cashmaggot OP ,

Yeah, I wrote a thing up here. I actually heard it's not even two u-locks you want but a u-lock and a...chain or something? There's some kinda master-class crap on Youtube or something but basically the were some people out here probably ten years ago trying to figure out what would keep a bike from getting stolen. And they found that mixing a u-lock and a __ (I am going to assume a thick ass chain yet again - with a solid ass lock) was the best combo. But tbh nothing stops a monster =/!

Glad you're holding it down though.

Jarix ,

Probably not what you were looking for but this week i had cheese curds stolen at work out of the work fridge. Could only have been 1 of 23 people. Won’t ever find out who. I can be reasonably sure it wasn’t half of them, can’t accuse anyone since im a manager and the company response is basically don’t use the fridge if you don’t want to have things stolen

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.

keepcarrot ,

I don’t think I have, but I’m always mildly irked by broke people stealing from other broke people instead of from people that can afford to replace the stolen whatever.

I used to steal food from the local big chain supermarket.

Nemo ,

Yeah, about five minutes ago. It happens. I’d rather extend trust and sometimes be disappointed than live in paranoia.

cashmaggot OP ,

=(

I don't know what I want to live in. Cause I have been open as a book, and gotten jacked up. Being closed off is most certainly not healthy either. And things are things. But I really wish people stayed in their lanes.

Hextubewontallowme ,
@Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml avatar

An umbrella…

Some fellow student named Jordan did it years ago…

I’m still pissed and wondering where wtf he lives

cashmaggot OP ,

Fuck Jordan, let's go jump his ass =P!

Hextubewontallowme ,
@Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah… let’s make it quick, boys : )

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.

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.

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