What's the last thing you nicked & when was it?

Ghost Estate · 10-11-2010 03:26AM

i always throw in a few nice croissants into a bag of cheap ones 1/5th the price

--LOS-- · 10-11-2010 04:16AM

I'd say bus tickets and paper from college

Tar.Aldarion · 10-11-2010 08:32AM

cant remember, toilet paper from college years ago or sth

Dublinvillian · 10-11-2010 09:01AM

was using NTL's service illegally for two years , but they scrambled it all last year , and know i have to pay for it , boo hoo

strobe · 10-11-2010 09:36AM

Robbed two basketballs a few months ago. Was in the shop, one of the big ones that sell clothes, food, toys, the lot. They have very strict security on the doors, take a look in pretty much every single persons bag on your way out. So yeah, out of curiosity to see if it would work more than anything else, I just walked in, up the escalator, grabbed the two basket balls, then turned straight around and headed back down towards the door dribbling one, with the other under my arm, as I came up to the security guard. He stopped me and asked to look in my bag, which he then had a good route around in, and out I walked with two stolen basket balls in plain view.

I've always meant to go back and try the same thing with like a microwave or portable CD player or something, just to see what happens. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

Feeona · 10-11-2010 09:46AM

charlemont wrote: »

Spend 2 visits to scrapyard for an exhaust, it was almost welded due to the condition of the nuts, so i chucked it into the ditch after it was removed from car and came back that night to take it ..:D

A keg, this one was tough, residental area, had to use rope levered on a tree branch to pull keg over high wall from pub..:D

When i was very skint id take the Big roll of toilet paper you get in collage toilets etc, very easy just unlock roll holder with edge of key and there you go about two months of toilet tissue..:D

You sound like a professional. I really don't think it's keeping in with the amateur thievery spirit of the thread

smk89 · 10-11-2010 09:48AM

Later today I shall be stealing the emergency exit sign from college that has come loose

Leelaa22 · 10-11-2010 11:20AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Spoken like a true Cavan woman.

Hey im only in Cavan a month I am and always will be a Dub!!

Truley · 10-11-2010 11:31AM

Don't remember the last time I watched or listened to a legitimately acquired film/song.

fishtastico · 10-11-2010 11:34AM

strobe wrote: »

Robbed two basketballs a few months ago. Was in the shop, one of the big ones that sell clothes, food, toys, the lot. They have very strict security on the doors, take a look in pretty much every single persons bag on your way out. So yeah, out of curiosity to see if it would work more than anything else, I just walked in, up the escalator, grabbed the two basket balls, then turned straight around and headed back down towards the door dribbling one, with the other under my arm, as I came up to the security guard. He stopped me and asked to look in my bag, which he then had a good route around in, and out I walked with two stolen basket balls in plain view.

I've always meant to go back and try the same thing with like a microwave or portable CD player or something, just to see what happens. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

If you try it with microwaves, it'll look suspicious if you have two and are trying to bounce one off the ground

Duggy747 · 10-11-2010 11:39AM

I recently ate a grape from a supermarket, I panicked and fled the scene!

Now I'm holding up in an attic of a house waiting for the heat to blow over. I have to keep myself alive by drinking water from the boiler up here and eat the various mice I find.

Those coppers ain't taking me alive!!

Interceptor · 10-11-2010 11:40AM

(. ) (. ) ........ ( .) ( .)

This thread made me realise that I'm going to hell. Your innocence is wonderful, please don't change.

'cptr

10-11-2010 11:45AM

God I can't remember the last time I stole but when I was younger we used to go into the local shop, grab a penny sweet bag and throw maybe about 10 in there and then grab a can of coke, a few bars or whatever and proceed to go up to the counter and say, "10penny sweets please". This was despite the fact the bag was barely big enough to fit what I had thrown into it.

Always got away with it too.

10-11-2010 11:46AM

Two pieces of butter from the breakfast place in Dublin airport. I hid them under my toast. I hate being charged 20 cent a pop for a tiny amount of butter when I've already paid for the toast. It's like buying a car then being charged for brakes.

ederkeh · 10-11-2010 11:55AM

'Men at Work' sign from roadworks beside my house last year. Alcohol was my partner in crime!

gent9662 · 10-11-2010 12:05PM

Didn't pay for a pint in the pub last weekend (or should I say, barman didn't take the money i had left out for the pint). I waited until I had the pint finished and then pocketed the money!

Rabidlamb · 10-11-2010 12:12PM

Over 5 years road tax unpaid.
Started off like a protest against poor roads then I just preferred having the money myself.
Since bought a new car so back on the grid.

jimthemental · 10-11-2010 12:17PM

I've heard of cops who don't tax their car coz they can wave off other cops with their badge.

Myself I have a habit of lifting my friends wallets when their not looking in the pub. I give them back after they've had an anxious few minutes. I could probably make a better living from this if I used my skills for gain:rolleyes:

jimthemental · 10-11-2010 12:19PM

dclane wrote: »

Didn't pay for a pint in the pub last weekend (or should I say, barman didn't take the money i had left out for the pint). I waited until I had the pint finished and then pocketed the money!

That's beautiful but I can top it, I was down to my last €5 in a pub last year so bought my last pint. Got change of a fifty, happy days! Wasn't a computer till either and the place wasn't busy so there was nothing on my conscience about getting the bar woman in trouble.

FortuneChip · 10-11-2010 12:29PM

Twenty Euro from my dad. I had gotten a taxi home and realised I was out of money.
I just replaced the twenty rather than telling him the story, to keep the trust like!

travelguru · 10-11-2010 12:50PM

€12,000 about 1 year ago.. no need to thief anything since then.

jackiebaron · 10-11-2010 01:00PM

Wasted drunk last Thursday, had a Doner Kebab and cola and walked out without paying.

who what when · 10-11-2010 01:04PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Mine was in the supermarket a few weeks ago... I usually eat a croissant from the bakery section while I shop. Now, technically it's thieving, but I write it off as a supermarket tax which I feel obliged to charge Tesco while I'm in there.

So, what's the last thing you stole & when?

Stealing is what scumbags do.

jackiebaron · 10-11-2010 01:06PM

Mr Marston wrote: »

Ehh... about four years ago in first year of college, I was given €60 by my parents to buy a calculus book. I spent it on drinks as I was accustomed to do at the time. I then went into a certain bookstore in town, stuck it in my bag after pretending to look at it for a while, and walked out. What can ya do?

Used to fleece Eason's and Hodges Figgis for all my acedemic documentation and drink the cash.

Rabidlamb · 10-11-2010 01:10PM

who what when wrote: »

Stealing is what scumbags do.

Ah, good work my internet crusader.
Now onto the next scene where injustice is being carried out.

Orando Broom · 10-11-2010 01:11PM

When I was in college I robbed 300m meters of paper (It was about a meter and a half wide and ten inches or so wide) from a skip. Drunk as a stick hauled this roll out, over the shoulder and home.

Woke up the next morning, looked at my quarry and rolled it under my bed. It remained there until I was moving out of the gaff. My oul fella was in the house saying how the creche at home was looking for money to buy paper and materials for art. I produced my 300m roll of paper and promptly donated it to the creche.

Heaped with praise I was.

Tzetze · 10-11-2010 01:11PM

Nicked myself while shaving this morning. :mad:

AnonoBoy · 10-11-2010 01:14PM

I illegally downloaded some Irish band's entire back catalogue there recently.

StarBelsomething-or-other I think they're called.

stovelid · 10-11-2010 01:17PM

Can't remember but it was definitely a supermarket food item like the OP.

Kids are good for covering your tracks as you can blame them on the empty packet if you're caught.

maxwell smart · 10-11-2010 01:33PM

Stationary from my former employer.............lots of stationary.

I do remember a mate of mine working in a big store on the Naas Road (its where Woodies is now) it sold furniture and electrical goods. Anyway, two guys arrive to the store, double park at the door and get out. All dressed up as electricians with Phillips on the rear of their Hi-Vis vests.
They head straight for the 50" plasma (one of the first in Ireland) and proceed to remove it from display. A salesman went over to see what was happening and they got him to sign for them removing it as Phillips had issued a recall due to some type of gas escaping from them.
They took about 15 minutes to get if wrapped up and loaded and off they went.
Needless to say they were not from Phillips!

What's the last thing you nicked & when was it?

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