Dumb Shoplifter

[dalesys]

Nope, snow sleds.

Not that I'd know from experience.

The evil things we did when we were younger... last week.

[bankworking]

...and they all moved away from me on the bench...

"AND creating a nuisance"
...and they all came back.

[emt_cookies]

We have had people go in the back of the store to grab a TV and run.

[PatchO'Black]

Nope, snow sleds.

Not that I'd know from experience.

Afraid not where I'm from, Geek King. Distinct lack of snow hereabouts, making sledding not an option.

[ShadowBall]

I think I love when people steal gift cards. It seems many of these dolts fail to realize that a gift card's balance is not activated for use until it's been purchased. I can only imagine how sweet of a kick in the ass it is when someone takes what they think is several hundred or thousand dollars in gift cards, goes on a big shopping spree online and then finds out they can't use the cards.

Anyone ever had someone like this call the store to complain that the cards they stole didn't work?

[Lace Neil Singer]

We stopped selling iTunes cards in the petrol station cuz of all the teens who'd steal them. Not cuz we lost money; the cards need to be activated otherwise they're just worthless pieces of plastic; but cuz it was annoying having to constantly reorder them. As well as finding the discarded cards shoved in the forecourt bins.

[Syriilord]

Afraid not where I'm from, Geek King. Distinct lack of snow hereabouts, making sledding not an option.

I beg to differ. Around here we also have a distinct lack of snow. At best we get slush for a day or two. But when I was younger we would slide down a rather steep grassy slope on large pieces of cardboard.


Until a local resident called the police on us when one little (male) idiot decided that it would be a great idea to do it naked

[PepperElf]

seriously? think steal the cards thinking they're worth something before being registered?

[Flying Grype]

seriously? think steal the cards thinking they're worth something before being registered?

I bought my copy of Beatles Rock Band from a little game shop that only kept empty boxes on the shelves for their used games. I had called before I went in and made sure that they had a copy, which they did, but when I went in I couldn't find it on the shelf. The guy checked and found the disc in the binder behind the counter and sold it to me in a blank box. So someone probably swiped the empty box from the shelf thinking the store was stupid enough to actually leave the game in it...

[manybellsdown]

Useless things to steal:

My best friend's dad was a LAPD detective during the LA riots in 1992. He nabbed a looter with a humungous cardboard box. When they opened the box at the station, everyone had a good laugh and then let my friend's dad take the box home.

It was filled with hundreds of packs of chewing gum.

[PatchO'Black]

I beg to differ. Around here we also have a distinct lack of snow. At best we get slush for a day or two. But when I was younger we would slide down a rather steep grassy slope on large pieces of cardboard.

I sit corrected.

I do seem to recall doing something similar in my youth. Still, these fellows didn't seem to be the "let's go sliding down a hill" kind of folks....

[taxguykarl]

Anyone ever had someone like this call the store to complain that the cards they stole didn't work?

I recall a tread or two about that.