Author Topic: What's the most expensive thing you've stolen?  (Read 9040 times)

Some kids boxers when I was at summer camp


Never ever stolen anything from a shop. I was raised not to, and my parents owned a shop at a time and they knew shoplifters and it really upset them, especially when the business wasn't doing well financially at all, and some days we were struggling to get ANY money in, and then some stuff comes and tries to pinch something.
It might not be a lot, but that can mean that my parents would've spent an entire day (5am to 7pm) sat in a shop bored, away from their children, and then lost money that day.

As for other things, I've never stolen intentionally. On occasion I've ended up with someone's property by accident, usually as a result of borrowing and both myself forgetting to return it and them forgetting to ask for it back. But I know the opposite has happened for me too.

My parents have always been quite strict on stealing.
That said, they've knowingly pinched pieces of cutlery or glassware from pubs or restaurants before.
And with the family knowing. It's always been minor though, and usually taking something interesting.
My Dad has taken a fancy pint glass before, and my mum took a fancy dessert spoon and a cake fork.
They have pretty much only done this from pubs/restaurants that have provided terrible or rude service.
The pint glass though was a case of my dad getting a bit too drunk with family friends.

I don't get the point of taking cutlery from a restaurant.

I don't get the point of taking cutlery from a restaurant.
There isn't really.
These pieces just happened to be types of cutlery we don't have, or don't tend to see in shops, or even in most restaurants.

oh yeah my parents nicked a shopping cart (small so it could fit in the car) from a huge clothes store before

I have no idea how or why because I wasn't there, but isn't life about stealing shopping carts?

inb4 somebody says "photoshop"

It cost me an arm and a leg.

I don't want to go into the expensive part, but I sometimes leave stores without paying for drinks or snacks. Trick is to act so casual that they'd feel like a fool to second guess themselves. Walk out sipping a drink in hand? No thief would be that stupid!

inb4 somebody says "photoshop"

It cost me an arm and a leg.

gimp!

GIMP is alright, but my college has a stack of photoshop plugins they paid for which I get for free which greatly assist with my stuffty texture jobs.

(Also, none of the teachers like open-source stuff...)

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I managed to pinch a fairly expensive Macbook from a friend. It's nowhere near the other stuff in this thread, but at least I can say I was doing it for the benefit of the person I stole from...

inb4 somebody says "photoshop"

It cost me an arm and a leg.
I exploited the Adobe student license program to get a significantly reduced price on CS4 web standard. Does that count?

My parents have always been quite strict on stealing.
That said, they've knowingly pinched pieces of cutlery or glassware from pubs or restaurants before.
And with the family knowing. It's always been minor though, and usually taking something interesting.
My Dad has taken a fancy pint glass before, and my mum took a fancy dessert spoon and a cake fork.
They have pretty much only done this from pubs/restaurants that have provided terrible or rude service.
The pint glass though was a case of my dad getting a bit too drunk with family friends.
i haven't stolen anything but when i was 5 my family went to a mexican restaurant and they didn't like the food so they took a ton of silverware and just ran off with it
apparentally we come from the same family