What have you stolen

These days it kind of feels like something that happened to someone else.

Although me and my mates were discussing this at the weekend and we all agreed that stealing food/disposable cameras(very popular!)/cigarettes/magazines from somewhere you've worked was not stealing at all, merely a fringe benefit.

Oh, hang on - when I was about 6 I swapped the price labels in the supermarket and got my mum to buy a liquorice selection pack because it was only 5p.

My friend stole a champagne bucket from Bad Bob's (NB we were only there cos it was another friend's hen night and we couldn't find another bar that would let the stripper do his thing) and then attempted to take it into a club / use it as a street toilet.

I guess I'm lucky to have had the experance, because it's kept me from stealing anything else ever in my life. I don't even pirate MP3s.

I once stole a bag of cheetos as a small child, my mother was with me. Ha ha

I used to steal alot. Now I don't.

First thing was the Warhol photos book by Makos. Then a couple of dumb cheap tapes. A tape cover (wretched wretched wretched!); Stationery items; a CD from a band's gig (drunk); a tambourine from a karaoke establishment (drunk); a nonfunctioning game of Simon from a party - the owners knew I was stealing it and I knew they knew but I still did it, right in front of them (horrendously drunk - mainly on a stolen &69 bottle of champagne); numerous bottles of wine; about a third of the food I ate for at least a year - mainly pine nuts, blue cheese, wine; two video camera cassette tapes from a supermarket; lots of other stuff from supermarkets which I can't remember too clearly; art magazines from an art gallery; make up; clothes from the salvation army thrift store. Plus I'm sure lots that I can't remember.

I genuinely abhor shoplifting and dine'n'ditch, actually. Have never done either. However if we're talking office stationery or candle holders/ashtrays/champagne flutes, c'est moi.

i stole an unopened bottle of water yesterday. went to the toilets in the cinema, as i was drying my hands the bottle fell off the top of the dryer. there was one otther guy in the toilets, in the actual cubicle and i thought theres no way it could have been his as he would have taken it in there with him, so i thought someone must have left it, and bagged it. 5 mins later, that guy and his gf sit down behind me, talking about how someone stole his bottle of water. the gfs all like 'disgusting!'. meanwhile im sitting there feeling a bit bad now. so i act all innocent, turn around, ask the guy oh was that YOUR water?! and tell him i thought someone had just left it. hes totally cool about it and laughs but im guessing (i cant actually see her cos its dark) the gf was hating me and eye rolling. i think it was a fair steal personally.

oh that was your Rolex!?

(i don't think i would go trough that humiliation for a bottle of water)

i can't recall having stolen something myself, but i have a computer game someone lent me one day and i never returned it. the person never asked either though.

A mirror ball. (Although I think it was Ally C who did the technical, actual, stealing.) Ah, what a night that was...
― Archel, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 01:00 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was going to say "nothing" but then I remembered that I was an accomplice to this as well.

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according to characters in a certain book that i'm reading, all women have stolen cosmetics from Boots. is this in fact a lie?

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (6 years ago)

I don't know about this, but surely every woman who uses the appropriate cosmetics has used the testers for purposes other than those they're designed for. It's the dream (THE dream) of my girlfriend to move to a city that's big enough for no one to ever notice that she gets all of her daily makeup from Boots testers.

Last week I stole someone's teabag and it was the worst cup of tea I've ever had. Lesson learned.

In a sense, they teabagged you...
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Sweets, comic books, CDs, cosmetics, trading cards, books... That was all when I was younger though, I haven't really stolen anything for 10+ years. (Except office supplies from work, but everybody does that.)

I pretty much stopped stealing after the time I was caught by the cops.

A CD, a guitar magazine, the book "Days of War, Nights of Love" (which, to be fair, advises you to steal it) among a bunch of other--mostly philosophy--books, Robitussin pills smuggled out of the store in a pack of cigarettes...

all that comes to mind at the moment

mostly when i was alot younger ~

box of clay pigeons from a shooting range

various things from 7 elevens while drunk like sunglasses, chocolate, chips etc.

in highschool (boarding school) broke into the canteen and took a heap of food.

buds off a pot plant out of some guys backyard which backed onto our school. plant was highly visible from the playground too O_o

when i was a teenager i used to get drunk and steal things from a motorway service station by just grapping the handful of stuff and then going to the toilet and throwing them out of the window. Obviously wasn't very surreptitious, but caring about it was obviously more than the attendants' jobs were worth.

There's a big diff between "what have you stolen from yr employer" and "what have you burgled, robbed, or shoplifted?"

i stole an unopened bottle of water yesterday. went to the toilets in the cinema,

Unopened or not, I wouldn't take ANYTHING that had been in a public toilet and that I hadn't personally supervised for every second of its time in there.

Who's that dude whose life work is showing how every system for showing that a bottle has been previously opened can be circumvented?

a weirdo

dart board from the swanny hotel before it was demolished

when I first came to college, before I had a job, I was really poor and I used to steal things from the supermarket.

Me and gf occasionally steal wood from the outside of B&Q. We have an alibi all worked out as well.

Me: What, you didn't pay for it?
Her: I thought you were paying for it?
Me: (rolls eyes at security man) Sorry about this mate, I'll go in and pay now.

That'll work, won't it?

petrol
bikes
fish
angle grinders
go kart
concrete sidings
copper

I was an accomplice (but not the recipient) in a heist operation involving a signed photograph of a Tori Spelling (apparently appraised at $50, but I'm kind of dubious). I felt really guilty about it, so much so I gave $10 to the homeless to wash off the guilt.

I have stolen a bunch of things while intoxicated. The only thing I remember stealing while sober (in the last couple of years) is some fridge sushi from the supermarket.

I appear to have liberated a stuffed badger from last night's work "retox" party.

Also a quantity of booze but I think I can get away with that.

keep the badger imo

the only thing I've ever stolen is a life sized cardboard cutout of the actor who played Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle taken from a Mexican restaurant owned by his parents.

some guy at a party was a dick to me and tried it on with my g/f at the time. so i stole an unopened bottle of diesel aftershave from his bathroom and gave it to my cousin for his birthday.

the party was at his house, btw. i didn't find out where he lived and break in later :D

use to shoplift sweets and comics from a little local newsagent as a kid too, they didn't have cameras or mirrors and the guy would always be in the back, so easy. i feel guilty about it now though, he was a nice fella.

I once stole a Paula Deen magazine, and another time I stole a life-sized poster of a naked Guillermo Diaz for fellow ILXor donna rouge

But that's it. People who steal bikes are truuuuly THE most disgusting of all savages

oh, i forgot that me and my uni housemates once accidentally stole a bike.

there was a mountain bike in our front garden and it was starting to rain. we assumed it belonged to our housemate's friend who was staying over but was out with her at that time and brought it inside. they both come back and ask "who's bike is that in the hall?". oops. we took it to the police station the next day, i think someone else had stolen it and ditched it in the garden.

- giant Pearl Jam concert billboard/poster that we tore off the side of a building (it took five of us!) and gave to my best friend for her birthday. She nailed it to her ceiling which was LOL

- paper cocktail umbrellas. friend of the family collected them and one day I was visiting, and for some reason I decided to steal them all. I don't know why. I was not very old. I have a vague memory of her being mean to me, maybe that's why. I took them home and played with them in the backyard cos you can make them fly when you spin them. She found out they were missing and called Mum and mum made me go over to her house and give them back. I hated that bc she was so "why did you take them" and I remember thinking "leave me alone, why do you even collect them anyway if you don't play with them"

- candy. Went through a klepto phase of stealing candy from corner stores and newsagents. Didn't ever get caught but guilt made me stop.

haha, i once saw somebody get frogmarched off by bouncers after trying to steal gig posters from a venue (for gigs that hadn't even been put on yet) the way the guy did it was so smug, "hey look at me everybody, i'm stealing posters, i'm such a badass, right?"

"no you're fucken not" - huge bouncer

we did ours in an alleyway in the middle of the night. But LOL at a) stealing from the venue and b) upcoming gigs!! Thats hilariously bad form,

the only thing I've ever stolen is a life sized cardboard cutout of the actor who played Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle taken from a Mexican restaurant owned by his parents.

― Sheenastia Easton (ENBB), Saturday, January 29, 2011 4:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uhhhh need more details next time i see you

LOL OK. We should go there. It's in Milton (or somewhere near there) and is plastered with amazing pictures of that kid with everyone from A-list celebrities to hilarious has-beens.

A mens room sign from Disney

oh shit it's local?

oh yeah

I'll have to find out from my friend what it's called again. Basically we did kareoke in the upstairs bar and were just marveling at all the Dewey paraphernalia. We stayed until closing and on the way out I noticed this cut-out. I don't know what came over me but I had to have it and the next thing I knew I was running through the parking lot with it and telling my friends to hurry and take off. I've always felt sort bad about it cause it was his parents' and all but it was awesome and I'm sure they could afford another.

oh and he had a tag on his shirt that said "gracias"

A copy of Twilight (it was well-thumbed, and appeared to have been forgotten in a TJMaxx). After all, I couldn't in good conscience pay money to read the thing.

wise choice. though reading it Im sure was a far greater disappointment than the thrill of stealing it (having read it, i kinda wish I had stolen it, lol)

john julius norwich's three-volume history of byzantium in hardcover

years later, it has just about driven that bookstore (then my employer) into bankruptcy

the neverending story from a library. riding on falcor atm

lots of candy/baseball cards circa 1986 - last thing i can recall stealing was two throw pillows from ikea in 2002 out of spite, now ikea knows not to fuck w/me

lol

in 6th grade i snuck into my classroom after hours and stole one of the paperback greek mythology encyclopedias so i could finish some project i hadn't done on time. then i couldn't figure out how to put it back without getting caught, so i kept it. i still have it actually, i keep it on my nostalgia shelf with the stephen king and anne rice books.

Erica, do you still have the cardboard Dewey? I am so jealous!

This insane Dewey restaurant sounds like my dream hangout.

oh shit. Stole a brand new, uncatalogued copy of "In Search of the Trojan War" from school library. They let us use them for Classics class under strict instructions to return at end of semester but I liked mine so i kept/stole it. Feel kinda bad about it now.

x-post - Sadly, no. One of the times I moved I'd brought it home and put it temporarily in my bedroom at my parents' house. When I noticed that it was missing a couple months later I asked my mom where it was and she said, "Oh, that kid? I threw it away because he was freaking me out." :( The place was awesome. I'm gonna find out if it's still there and go back. It was unreal.

http://thealamomexicano.com/

i work really close to there

That's it! That's totally it! O_O

I can't even express how strange it is. You walk in and the place is literally covered with pictures of him and complete randoms. It's amazing. NEXT FAP @ THE ALAMO IMO.

lol it'd actually be a good midpoint for us and chris v. iirc

Previous clients have included: "the cast and crew if the independent film Wendigo" :D

once i stole a bag of doritos from a subway sandwich shop. first i bought a subway sandwich, though. and another bag of doritos.

stole a copy of Les Miserables from my HS library, which I still have.

I also managed to walk off with a book of Italian arias from Florida STate's music library, which I accidentally placed with my things when I moved back to Orlando, and forgot to return.

I stole an industrial strength sharpie from staples once. they only came in boxes of 12. they didn't have any blister packs. fuck knows what I'd do with 12 industrial strength sharpies.

Tag the city doooood

just remembered in high school that i stole a "letter" (the kind you sew onto letterman's jackets) out of the drama office, because the old teacher had claimed we could letter in drama and the new one thought we were making it up. later on she did pass out letters and was surprised when i declined to take (another) one.

i never sewed it onto anything and it's still sitting in a box somewhere. clearly i need to stop hoarding old stolen shit.

I kind of steal stuff all the time from supermarkets. It's always something tiny like a bulb of garlic, and I'm always buying something else at the same time. It's almost like I'm putting one to The Man without any sense of fear of recrimination, like a noble, useless final act of defiance against global capitalism. I think that's how my subconscious would rationalise it if subconsciouses rationalised at all.

behringer audio mixer from school music department while in school

it was collecting dust and i needed one

trucker hat, wig, soda, snickers bar, some advertisement posters that weren't for sale, bagel w/hummus, pint of ice cream

i don't like stealing though, even from places that i hate/find indefensible