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What would you do if you saw someone wearing your stolen jacket?

  • 26-10-2011 06:43PM
    #1
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭


    Your good jacket and all. Stolen in The Village, Dublin, last Saturday, my own fault for leaving something unattended in Dublin but still. Highly distinctive, bright-blue almost fluorecsent, bought abroad, don't exactly see many similar jackets in Dublin.

    I walk through the area twice a day for work, plus around at weekends, I might see someone wearing it, someone who cannot explain where such an unusual jacket was bought.

    What would you do?


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  • #2
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Nothing I would not wear it again after someone else wearing it.


  • #3
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Say: 'Give me that jacket back, it's mine!'


  • #4
    InReality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    kill them with my mind.


  • #5
    Full.Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Full.Duck


    Well if they can fit into your jacket they would be the same size as you. Its would be a fair fight. But i think finders keepers rule applies here.


  • #6
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Stalk em and steal it back.


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  • #7
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Say: 'Give me that jacket back please, it's mine!'

    fyp

    Manners go a long way you know.:rolleyes:







    :pac:


  • #8
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Open a laundrette in the area.
    Wait for jacket-wearer to walk by and have a friend throw a fake bird plop mixture on them from above window.
    Witness said ploppage, and rush outside and offer to clean jacket at a knock down price.
    Once jacket is now in your possession, close down laundrette and assume your normal life.

    Simple really.


  • #9
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Your good jacket was flourescent blue?

    Sounds like the thief did you a favour.


  • #10
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Sounds an awful lot like a jacket I bought from a charity shop recently...


  • #11
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,693 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Something like that did happen to me, it was a dress- that I had made myself so there was no chance of a mistake - that had been in my wardrobe and I met it coming down a corridor of the government department where I worked! And it was not a friend' who had 'borrowed' it. Won't bore you with details, but will just say it was in a third world country, many years ago.


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  • #12
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    looksee wrote: »
    Something like that did happen to me, it was a dress- that I had made myself so there was no chance of a mistake - that had been in my wardrobe and I met it coming down a corridor of the government department where I worked! And it was not a friend' who had 'borrowed' it. Won't bore you with details, but will just say it was in a third world country, many years ago.
    You can't half-tell a story like that! Was Robert Mugabe wearing your dress?


  • #13
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Rezident


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    fyp

    Manners go a long way you know.:rolleyes:







    :pac:

    ok we'll call that plan A.


  • #14
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    Cover it in petrol and light it on fire, while they are wearing it.


  • #15
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Tell the person wearing it that it makes their bum look big. Nobody likes to hear that.


  • #16
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I didn't steal it.

    I actively found it.


  • #17
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Put sh!t in the pockets and tell them you saw a swallow fly into one of the pockets and then when they out their hand in to check........bam, sh!tty fingers!!

    Then run!!


  • #18
    shanered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    Would ask them =something, after a lil chit-chat say nice jacket, then ask them how they got it, tell them that you had one just like that once but left it behind in the village one night, go on to tell them some rotten story about it and hope for the best.


  • #19
    orchidsrpretty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭orchidsrpretty


    This has kind of happened to me before. My cousin(who I barely knew) was staying in my house. She was going out one night and I commented that the dress she was wearing was very like one that I had. She replied "oh we must have the same taste in clothes". I went looking for the dress in my wardrobe and it was gone!
    Also when she was moving out she kindly left a big pile of clothes, shoes and bags that she had borrowed, without asking me. I wouldn't have minded if she had asked me or we were close friends, but we were pretty much strangers.


  • #20
    leonidas83
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭leonidas83


    Flake the head off the ****er


  • #21
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    throw my footwear at them


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  • #22
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    What would you do if you saw someone wearing your stolen jacket?
    Your *stolen* jacket - No honour among theives? Seems from the title that you stole it first :P


  • #23
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    looksee wrote: »
    Something like that did happen to me, it was a dress- that I had made myself so there was no chance of a mistake - that had been in my wardrobe and I met it coming down a corridor of the government department where I worked! And it was not a friend' who had 'borrowed' it. Won't bore you with details, but will just say it was in a third world country, many years ago.

    You left your dress in a night club?


  • #24
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Rezident


    Sierra 117 wrote: »
    Cover it in petrol and light it on fire, while they are wearing it.

    Seems a little harsh, I might take it off first.


  • #25
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    tell that you used to own that jacket and it brings nothing but bad luck...then stitch them one


  • #26
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,693 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    phasers wrote: »
    You can't half-tell a story like that! Was Robert Mugabe wearing your dress?

    Lol, that's a good deal closer than I might have expected...


  • #27
    xxtattyberxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭xxtattyberxx


    This exact thing happened to a friend of mine, he left his jacket in the pub by mistake, rang the next day and was told it wasnt found.
    He went in say the following weekend to see one of the bar staff coming on for their shift wearing his jacket. It was a pretty unique jacket so could be spotted a mile of. Anyway the staff denied denied denied and it was brought to the manager he basically said to my friend 'prove its yours'. As far as I know the staff member was let go not to long after it but the friend still never got his jacket back


  • #28
    TheGunRunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭TheGunRunner


    Rezident wrote: »
    Your good jacket and all. Stolen in The Village, Dublin, last Saturday, my own fault for leaving something unattended in Dublin but still. Highly distinctive, bright-blue almost fluorecsent, bought abroad, don't exactly see many similar jackets in Dublin.

    I walk through the area twice a day for work, plus around at weekends, I might see someone wearing it, someone who cannot explain where such an unusual jacket was bought.

    What would you do?
    Beat the snot out of him then take the jacket and smother him with then dump body in a garbage truck where it will be compressed to a paper thin string of misery. Then skip the country to avoid finger being pointed at you.....

    Was that the answer you were looking for??

    :-) :-) don't think so :-) :-)


  • #29
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Follow him and when no one is looking, Bust him.


  • #30
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    A guy stole a pair of cargo shorts from my shop. About a week later we saw him and his girlfriend walking near St Stephens Green and he was wearing the shorts. Followed him into the Stephen's Green Centre and they went into TK Maxx where I confronted them. Ended up in a bit of a scuffle and the security asked us to leave. I left with the shorts and left him standing on the shop floor in his boxers.


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  • #31
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    May I refer you to this post? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75130685&postcount=7


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