It's not stealing if you tell them you are going to do it

[wanderingjoe72]

While having breakfast at “L”enny’s with my younger daughter on Black Friday. So we are waiting for our breakfast goodness and I hear a lady behind us going on to her family about the little teapot they brought out for her. She then told her family that she wanted to take it with her. Someone said she couldn’t just steal it, and that is when she said “it is not stealing if you tell then you are going to do it”. She then mentioned it to the waitress and basically just told her she was going to take it. She didn’t ask where they got them or if they sold them, only that she was going to steal it. I heard the waitress tell her that they would probably not chase after her for that, but I could only imagine what she really wanted to tell her.

I left before they did, so I don’t know if she actually took it. I wonder if that approach works in banks.

[otakuneko]

Meanwhile, waitress discreetly adds a teapot tax to the bill.

[JoitheArtist]

Gah!!! I want to smack people like that with a dictionary. You cannot just make up your own definition of stealing!

Stealing = taking something that is not yours without paying for it

In fact, to TELL someone that you're going to steal their stuff before hand does not only NOT make it not stealing, it adds an insult to the theft.

[bainsidhe]

Yeah, I would've sicced a manager on her to arrive at the table and say "Ah, so I understand you'd like to purchase our teapot? It's X amount of dollars" (kudos of some random large number was given. Double kudos if some officers were eating at a table nearby

[Jack Doe]

Yeah, I would've sicced a manager on her to arrive at the table and say "Ah, so I understand you'd like to purchase our teapot? It's X amount of dollars" (kudos of some random large number was given. Double kudos if some officers were eating at a table nearby

Hahaha, my buddy Nick (Waffle house goon) used to do that all the time. Salt/pepper/both missing? $40 extra. Put your mouth to the Tabasco bottle? $10. Grabbed a fistful of napkins for tissues? Eh, who cares.

[PepperElf]

And then another $5 for the drinks they'll require after drinking the Tabasco.


but stealing is stealing
telling them ahead of time is just premeditated stealing

[mattm04]

Next they will complain about the price of the food begin higher because the restaurant must keep replacing stolen equipment.