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Have you ever stolen anything?

freshpopcorn

I'm just trying to think and I've never stolen anything from a shop.
When I was a teenager I did borrow my brothers euro coin collection.(He was collecting all the Euro coins from different countries, he wasn't that into it.)

Have you ever stolen anything?

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TomSweeney

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

When I was about six I went Christmas shopping with my mum and spent a few hours traipsing after her in Anthony Ryans on Shop street in Galway.

I was totally bored out of my brains so decided to essentially raid the shop while I was there. In the car home my mother found Christmas baubles, crystal earrings, a watch, a pair of Christmas socks and a necklace in my little backpack. She marched me back to the shop and made me hand them in and apologise to the owner, who was highly bemused and let me keep one of the baubles as a gesture of appreciation for my honesty.

27 years later we still hang it on the tree every year and I'm still getting an almighty slagging for it.

That was probably a great lesson you learned.
My 5 year old did the same with a pack of M+Ms years ago and I took him back too and made him apologise.

No issues since.

Lorelli!

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Apples from an orchard. It was my initialisation into the gang. Later we moved into the hard stuff.

My brother and his friends jumped into a neighbour's garden when they were around 10 to steal apples from his apple tree.

The neighbour had to knock around to all the houses because he said he had put some spray on them and he was afraid they were all going to get sick!

Hotblack Desiato

RWCNT wrote: »

Used to weigh food in the local supermarket as carrots on the self service so a roast beef joint would be less than a quid.

So this supermarket lets customers weigh up their own raw meat, and the checkout operators are all too thick to figure out that a joint of meat should be more than a quid.

Uhuh.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

When I was in my early teens I started stealing magazines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hT5iIAe43Y

GBX

Good few years ago, myself and the ex were in a cafe. We had sandwiches and coffee. She went to the loo and said she'd pay when coming back to the table. Back she comes, coats on out the door. A while later I curiously enquired how much was the bill was to which she informed me she had forgotten. Place was closed when we walked back. Honest mistake

cavemeister

My friend and I stole a pack of nudie playing cards from a joke shop back when I was about 12 or 13.

The rationale? We were too embarrassed to buy them in case the shop assistant made fun of us.

I still remember the Ace of Hearts to this day

FortuneChip

Pens from Easons (oddly, as I wasn't writing much back then)
Jellies from newsagents (not so oddly - they were forbidden fruit... well, E-numbers masquerading as fruit flavours)

And cars.

begbysback

Long time ago, sweets from Woolworth, but I always thought they were asking for it leaving them out like that.

Green&Red

On October 21st 2015 I stole a sports almanac, gave it to a relation of mine

Graces7

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

When I was about six I went Christmas shopping with my mum and spent a few hours traipsing after her in Anthony Ryans on Shop street in Galway.

I was totally bored out of my brains so decided to essentially raid the shop while I was there. In the car home my mother found Christmas baubles, crystal earrings, a watch, a pair of Christmas socks and a necklace in my little backpack. She marched me back to the shop and made me hand them in and apologise to the owner, who was highly bemused and let me keep one of the baubles as a gesture of appreciation for my honesty.

27 years later we still hang it on the tree every year and I'm still getting an almighty slagging for it.

[ Heart warming one; thank you! made me smile

Graces7

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

So this supermarket lets customers weigh up their own raw meat, and the checkout operators are all too thick to figure out that a joint of meat should be more than a quid.

Uhuh.

Think he said it was an automatic self service checkout?

TomSweeney

Weepsie wrote: »

It will be taken back into the ATM, so you should always just leave it. Takes a few days for it to appear on a statement though.

really ??

wow ... Today I Learned!

Cordell

Shotgun To The Head wrote: »

No. In fairness I would never post them anywhere else online.

Send them to me and I will delete them for you, I promise.

secman

My identity, I'm not really who you think I am at all at all at all.

yourdeadwright

Sweets as kid from the local newsagents ,

But recently i was traveling through north Cork , ( im a dub)
We stopped in Mallow of all places for a cup of coffee in the local Costa ,i decided i needed to get a few bit so popped into Dunnes beside it ,When i left and was putting the stuff in the car i noticed i had bag of nappies in the bottom of the buggy i forgot to pay for so i brought them back and paid,

Not a great story but there you are

RWCNT

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

So this supermarket lets customers weigh up their own raw meat, and the checkout operators are all too thick to figure out that a joint of meat should be more than a quid.

Uh huh

No but self service kiosks allow you to weigh fruit and vegetables yourself and the scale doesn't have a clue what item you're actually placing on it. It's relying on customers being honest and the usually small number of staff supervising the self service kiosks watching carefully both what the customers are doing and the final prices of the baskets the customers are ringing up. Which is often difficult for them when running about approving alcohol purchases or helping people out with that "unexpected item in the bagging area" stuff.

Not sure what motivation you think I have to lie here and I'm surprised you havn't heard of this before, it's been mentioned in a few other threads Im sure.

retro:electro

RWCNT wrote: »

No but self service kiosks allow you to weigh fruit and vegetables yourself and the scale doesn't have a clue what item you're actually placing on it. It's relying on customers being honest and the usually small number of staff supervising the self service kiosks watching carefully both what the customers are doing and the final prices of the baskets the customers are ringing up. Which is often difficult for them when running about approving alcohol purchases or helping people out with that "unexpected item in the bagging area" stuff.

Not sure what motivation you think I have to lie here and I'm surprised you havn't heard of this before, it's been mentioned in a few other threads Im sure.

Not saying it can’t happen but in any self service I’ve been to the price scanned on the item is usually referenced and translated to weight on the scales. For eg, you scan €3 worth of mince in a bag, the scales will estimate it should weigh half a pound. If what you place on the scales doesn’t match with the previously stored weight that’s when you get “unexpected item in baggage area”. You’d want to be an expert in knowing what to cheaper item to replace the exact predicted weight with and that just sounds like a colossal waste of time. It can work with things like loose fruit etc but heavier items it gets trickier.

Hotblack Desiato

Thanks retro you explained it far better than the person who did it did

So... how many carrots weigh the same as a bottle of Redbreast 12? :pac:

JupiterKid

Stationery from various work places if that counts.

And oh yeah...some sweets from a little old lady shop with some mates on a dare when I was about 12.

[Deleted User]

Like a thread some poster like gugleguy would start.
Yes, I stole about 30 zx spectrum games on bootlegged cassette tapes back in the day, like Space Harrier and Infiltrator.
I'm sure the statute of limitations applies now.

[Deleted User]

razorblunt wrote: »

The difference between being a gadaí and Gardaí though, I guess.

Na bac me mhac an gadai agus na bac mhac an gadai tusa

valoren

I used to have a huge crush on Gwyneth Paltrow around 1996/97. She would have been an 'IT' girl back then. Just cool and to this hormone addled teen the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.

This would have been before I accessed the internet so pictures would have been few and far between.
Past issues of Empire magazine featuring photo's of the lovely Gwyneth were etched in my mind and stashed away neatly.

We had our 'leath lá' from School on the Wednesday's so this meant a trip to Dunnes in Douglas Court, Cork for the shopping. Our Aunt would collect my mother and I would usually go along. While they were shopping, I passed the time browsing the magazines in the Read & Write. I was flicking through the latest issue of Total Film and there she was in a promo shot from 'Great Expectations' which was being filmed at the time. It was on the top right hand page and was the same picture as on the left below.

green+dresses.jpg

My jaw hit the floor.

I just had to have it. Now the obvious thing to do would be to actually buy it but I didn't have enough cash on me. I could have asked for the money to buy it but I didn't want to take the risk of getting a No. Logic was lost on raging hormones. In my lust driven desire I decided, with adrenaline pumping, to very slowly, deliberately and quietly rip the picture from the magazine. This delicate operation took me a few minutes and it was deliberately folded so as not to crease Paltrow.

So yeah, I once stole a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow from a Total Film magazine in a Newsagents.

Edgware

Four of us travelled down thecountry to a funeral. I was driving. On the way back we stopped in Longford and had a big mixed grill with chips and a few pints. At the end one of the lads said that the three passengers would pay for me as I drove and collected the money from the other two. He went up to pay while we went to the car. As we were driving away one of the lads said" theres your man from the hotel waving at us" The first lad said " Drive on, he probably wants us to pay for the grub".
We laughed alll the way home

Edgware

valoren wrote: »

I used to have a huge crush on Gwyneth Paltrow around 1996/97. She would have been an 'IT' girl back then. Just cool and to this hormone addled teen the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.

This would have been before I accessed the internet so pictures would have been few and far between.
Past issues of Empire magazine featuring photo's of the lovely Gwyneth were etched in my mind and stashed away neatly.

We had our 'leath lá' from School on the Wednesday's so this meant a trip to Dunnes in Douglas Court, Cork for the shopping. Our Aunt would collect my mother and I would usually go along. While they were shopping, I passed the time browsing the magazines in the Read & Write. I was flicking through the latest issue of Total Film and there she was in a promo shot from 'Great Expectations' which was being filmed at the time. It was on the top right hand page and was the same picture as on the left below.

My jaw hit the floor.

I just had to have it. Now the obvious thing to do would be to actually buy it but I didn't have enough cash on me. I could have asked for the money to buy it but I didn't want to take the risk of getting a No. Logic was lost on raging hormones. In my lust driven desire I decided, with adrenaline pumping, to very slowly, deliberately and quietly rip the picture from the magazine. This delicate operation took me a few minutes and it was deliberately folded so as not to crease Paltrow.

So yeah, I once stole a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow from a Total Film magazine in a Newsagents.

Its only a mortal sin if you went home and wanked over it.

frankythefish

Was in Copenhagen before. Found it v expensive. At airport on way home I felt it necessary to lift about 20 yoyo of magazines from shop to get back at the country for robbing me blind. Felt good I must say

turdball

valoren wrote: »

I used to have a huge crush on Gwyneth Paltrow around 1996/97. She would have been an 'IT' girl back then. Just cool and to this hormone addled teen the sexiest thing I'd ever seen.

This would have been before I accessed the internet so pictures would have been few and far between.
Past issues of Empire magazine featuring photo's of the lovely Gwyneth were etched in my mind and stashed away neatly.

We had our 'leath lá' from School on the Wednesday's so this meant a trip to Dunnes in Douglas Court, Cork for the shopping. Our Aunt would collect my mother and I would usually go along. While they were shopping, I passed the time browsing the magazines in the Read & Write. I was flicking through the latest issue of Total Film and there she was in a promo shot from 'Great Expectations' which was being filmed at the time. It was on the top right hand page and was the same picture as on the left below.

My jaw hit the floor.

I just had to have it. Now the obvious thing to do would be to actually buy it but I didn't have enough cash on me. I could have asked for the money to buy it but I didn't want to take the risk of getting a No. Logic was lost on raging hormones. In my lust driven desire I decided, with adrenaline pumping, to very slowly, deliberately and quietly rip the picture from the magazine. This delicate operation took me a few minutes and it was deliberately folded so as not to crease Paltrow.

So yeah, I once stole a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow from a Total Film magazine in a Newsagents.

I'd say it's well sticky by now

freshpopcorn

I just remembered I stole condoms and beer off a relative when I was a teenager!

[Deleted User]

Edgware wrote: »

Four of us travelled down thecountry to a funeral. I was driving. On the way back we stopped in Longford

Your boards nickname bears a striking similarity to "Edgeworthstown", the next town from Longford going towards Dublin. But you might call it Moss Troim.

harry Bailey esq

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Have you ever stolen anything?

No.

Hotblack Desiato

Edgware wrote: »

Its only a mortal sin if you went home and wanked over it.

What if he licked the spunk off the picture, and then wanked over it again? Double mortaller?

Andrew00

Stole a pair of knickers from the drawer of a mate’s mum years ago. Still have them to this day and haven’t washed them