Have you ever shoplifted?

pappyodaniel · 08-07-2016 03:40AM

BUBBLES1978 wrote: »

When i was about 8 the whole of my family went on a bus to knock, older cousins auntys grannys etc...

if anyone remembers knock as a kid out the back of it from what i remember is a load of little shops selling 6ft hail marys, and little bits a bobs

my older cousins told me if i didn't steal something for them i wasn't getting back on the bus and id be left there all alone with nonone to love me !!!!:(:(

so i rocked into a shop and sweating like a blind man in a fish shop, stole one of those little camera thingys with the clicker on the top that showed pics of knock and all its lovely statues.

never stole a thing since not even a grape...sorry holy god!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D

What is it about Knock that brings the thief out of regular well behaved kids?

I stole some sh1te from there when I was 12 out of peer pressure and haven't stolen since.

Estrellita · 08-07-2016 09:37AM

Never stolen anything in my life, the moral conscious is strong in this one.

ectoraige · 08-07-2016 09:51AM

FortySeven wrote: »

I once stole a bale of freshly delivered magazines from outside a newsagents in the early morning on my way home from an acid trip. I read all of them cover to cover. There were knitting magazines, boating magazines, gay softporn magazines, car magazines and a cosmopolitan.

I was 14 and living with my mother at the time. She found the gay ones a few days later and tried to have a 'talk' with me.

I doubt the knitting and boating magazines helped with that conversation.

Lollipops23 · 08-07-2016 10:17AM

When I was about 17 I worked in a department store that had a large open-plan style stock room with a load of different departments/concessions using the space. Myself and my mate (and coworker) used to frequently raid the pick and mix belonging to the "celebrations" department, when we were "stocktaking".

Lady is a tramp · 08-07-2016 10:28AM

I once stole 50p from the "black babies" collection box in primary school. The guilt was horrific for years afterwards!

I've never shoplifted, but I often don't pay for the LUAS ... does that count?

MilesMorales1 · 08-07-2016 10:41AM

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

I once stole 50p from the "black babies" collection box in primary school. The guilt was horrific for years afterwards!

I've never shoplifted, but I often don't pay for the LUAS ... does that count?

The gardai are on the way to your property now to arrest you for... stealing from the luas.

maudgonner · 08-07-2016 10:52AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

The gardai are on the way to your property now to arrest you for... stealing from the luas.

And then Bob Geldof will be around to chastise you for stealing from the black babies. And sing some Boomtown Rats songs.

I think I'd prefer jail to having to listen to Bob :pac:

BUBBLES1978 · 08-07-2016 12:05PM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

What is it about Knock that brings the thief out of regular well behaved kids?

I stole some sh1te from there when I was 12 out of peer pressure and haven't stolen since.

:):):):):):):):)

Aglomerado · 08-07-2016 12:54PM

There used to be a shop in the Market in Ennis known as Bowsie Casey's. He was a settled Traveller who sold all sorts of haberdashery, curtain material, carpets, furniture etc. Plus there was a big table in the middle of the shop piled high with clothes so people could go in for a rummage.

I was there one day with my mum when I was about 5. It wasn't until we got home that she found the big bundle of assorted ribbons in my pocket....

She was too mortified to bring them back so they were at the back of a wardrobe for years afterwards....:o

Burial. · 08-07-2016 01:43PM

Remember those 24/7 mints that came in the egg shaped container? Stole a few of those just because they were all the rave at school at the time.

Also one time me and a friend happened to come upon a truck where there was this middle aged lad unloading boxes of sweets and bars into a shop all on his own. We went into the shop and actually bought a few things but when we left we saw the truck was completely unguarded and there were big square boxes of those Haribo sweets within an arms reach. Myself and the buddy ran off with two of them each. We were sicker than a hospital that evening trying to eat as much as we could to hide it from our parents.

RWCNT · 08-07-2016 02:35PM

****eloads.

In school we'd weigh a few carrots from the veg section in the local supermarket to get a price tag for about 20c. We'd then stick that over the barcode of whatever we wanted to buy and pay that amount for it at the self service. This technique was used the entire way through college as well.

I used to rob DVD box-sets out of HMV the old fashioned way and sell them on ebay and second hand shops also. I developed a weird sixth sense for being able to tell if the security tags were legit or not.

I eventually got caught doing the carrot trick at my local supermarket and had to knock it on the head for fear of ending up in hot water! Not proud of it but not ashamed either. I have a job now so I just pay for stuff and I get my adrenaline fixes in different way.

Avatar MIA · 08-07-2016 02:47PM

RWCNT wrote: »

I eventually got caught doing the carrot trick at my local supermarket and had to knock it on the head

How did you get away with that for so long?

"Thanks for shopping with Supergullible. Here's your weeks shopping, the bill comes to €2.20.

08-07-2016 02:58PM

RWCNT wrote: »

****eloads.

In school we'd weigh a few carrots from the veg section in the local supermarket to get a price tag for about 20c. We'd then stick that over the barcode of whatever we wanted to buy and pay that amount for it at the self service. This technique was used the entire way through college as well.

I remember that from college!

A mate of mine used to order a nice fillet steak in the butchery section, 350g, say. But instead of scanning the steak, he'd scan a cheap jar of peanut-butter, or whatever, without taking the peanut butter.

I don't think he was ever caught. He's a journalist now, for a disreputable newspaper, so he always had the chancer's arm, god bless him.

ongarboy · 08-07-2016 03:08PM

Funny how Woolworths features a lot in childhood shoplifting! I stole a paint set from there when I was about 7 and my brother stole a ladybird story book there another time. It was a child's fantasy store! The bollicking we got off our mother when she spotted out ill gotten goods stopped our thieving careers prematurely!! ðŸ˜„

we'llallhavetea · 09-07-2016 08:55PM

went to the marble arch caves on a school tour and stole a tiny notebook, freaked out, threw it in the bin, another student seen me and came over asking wtf i was doing, "eh eh, i dont want it!!" so she took it out of the bin. sweats for days

Richard Hillman · 09-07-2016 09:15PM

I used the self service desk in Tesco one time. I was paying by card and after inputted my pin, I went straight to pack my bags. After packing my bags, whipped the card out and waited my receipt. It didn't come, so I just walked out of the shop with my bags.

After a few days I checked my bank account and the transaction never came up. I reckon I put the wrong pin in and just took my shopping and walked :pac:

Have you ever shoplifted?

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