Shoplifting

I shoplift, frequently. On occasion, I even walk out of the grocery store with a free case of beer. EVERYTIME I go into a grocery store, I pick up a drink and start drinking it and just walk out the store while I'm still driking it, like I'm not doing anything wrong. A couple of times, when I didn't have any money and we needed food, I would go to the grocery store, fill up a shopping cart full of food, and just walk out and put everything in my car. Sometimes I steal out of necessity and sometimes I steal because I'm just cheap and don't want to pay for something. hahahaha me and some friends stole a payphone one time, along with the 12' steel pole it was attached to. We busted the change out of it, exchanged it for cash, and bought a 1/4oz of weed with it. lol

 

I'm not going to lie: I used to enjoy the hell out of shoplifting... which is how I came to have that conversation with a judge. Gets to a point though where one is almost too old for walking around stealing stuff just to steal stuff.

 

Yeah I have been arrested for shoplifting too. Had to go to court, do community service, take shoplifting classes, pay fines, etc. It sucks.

 

They teach you how to shoplift?

.... seems sensible, since you got caught..

 

Mine was like an entitlement thing...like okay I want this sweater, but it is 70 dollars and they are charging too much...so I am going to steal this shirt and then the sweater will only be 50 dollars.
But then Andy said that ultimatley it's the slave labor overseas that suffer-their wages go down as well because the store certainly isn't going to penalize it's employees and in some cases it can't raise prices because there isn't enough demand and they can always lower the cost of labor by going to an even poorer area over seas.
So that kinda sunk in...
bummer I did get off on it, which is sooooo wrong and way immature-but I did

 

HAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

I stole some candy from a store when I was five, my partner in crime broke down when his parents asked him where he got the treats from.

I don't think I've stolen anything since, and I've never needed to. I understand stealing to feed yourself and/or your family, but as much as I despise corporations, stealing for kicks just seems wrong.

 

hahaha yeah it was more of a class to teach us to resist the temptation to shoplift.

 

I was lucky and was 17. 4 months probation, 3 weeks house arrest.

When my buddy's laywer had the prosecutor review the tapes, he said, "Mr. Nila would've been facing adult charges had I seen this sooner".

Appearantly since I pleaded guilty, upfront, immediately, they didn't feel the need to watch it, but my buddy pleaded innocent to push for conversion instead of theft.

Double Jeopardy clauses saved my skinny white ass.

 

Yeah the reason my stupid ass got caught is because I was on a whole bunch of xanax and I got sloppy. I went into walmart, picked up a case of beer and just walked out the door. Usually, when I would do that, I would look around and make sure nobody was paying attention to me before I try to walk out, but I just walked out. While I was walking out with the beer, a loss-prevention guy walked up behind me and said something along the lines of "hey buddy.....you gonna give me that beer back before you leave?" And I said "oh yeah.....here you go" and proceeded to walk out, as though nothing had happened. He said "no, you need to come with me" and I was like "alright, let's go". I was all fukt up from the xanax, so it wasn't really phasing me too much. I was making jokes with the dude and busting his balls about shit. haha All of the loss-prevention people were sitting in a the room with me in the back of the store and they were talking to eachother saying "he's on something" and I was laughing at them and whatnot, getting on their nerves like a mofo. I sat there until the cops came and took me away. They booked me and all that shit, and they searched me, looking in my shoes, stripping me down and shit, and looking under the hat I was wearing. Little did they know, my hat had a little pocket on the inside of it, which contained some more xanax that I decided to eat while I was sitting in the holding cell. I would've been fukt if they found those. haha

The really fukt up thing is, at the point when I was stealing the beer, I already had some beer in my car that I had forgotten all about because of the xanax. lol

I went to court for it and pleaded nolo contendre. I got off with no probation, but I had to do community service and take that shoplifting class and pay some fines, so I got off pretty light I guess. I'm lucky I didn't get a DWI charge, since I was driving fukt up as hell on the xanax and drinkin beer. I don't guess they knew I was driving though.

 

It was under $35 dollars. That's why the no probation.

I had over $600 worth of electronics packed into the cart, hidden between cases of soda, jackets, etc. All the security tags had been cut out, except ONE(goddamn that made me mad), and I had a flat razor on me. I also argued with the bitch that followed me out, and tried to run - not from the police, just store clerks.

Got to the end of the parking lot to see the driver leaving. All of the sudden a big black SUV comes screeching to halt and an old man jumps out telling me to get on the ground, so I did.

I overheard the cops talking while I was waiting for the parental units to arrive. They guy in the SUV was a civillian. I sat on the ground for 8 minutes, FOR A CIVILIAN, while the police showed up.

So much for thinking I was brilliant.

 

Damn dude. That fuckin bitchfuck old dude got you caught, and it was none of his business. Did you think he was a cop or something? You definitely got off lucky, considering it was felony shoplifting.

I still think I got off light, considering I was 21 years-old at the time. Being an adult, I figured they'd put me on at least 6 months probation. I just know that a $17 case of beer ended up costing me a few hundred dollars and 40 hours of community service. That sucks donkey balls man.

 

this thread makes me smile =]

 

When you steal from Wal-mart it means you steal the nickel paycheck that went to the kids who made the products.. You steal from Wal-mart, you steal the souls of the babies who fingers bleed for their products...pfft, duh...

and stealing cough medicine, guess the PCP just isn't hittin' the spot for you anymore these days...

 

Ah, obviously WalMart didn't make 11 billion in profits in 2005 then shroom. It's taking from that, not the 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% of that that goes to the people that make their products.

 

Man there's a lot of shoplifters on this forum. I don't know what I'd do if you guys and gals were at a party at my place. Maybe a search on the way out?

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I don't shoplift myself, not for moral reasons, just because I'm a clumsy fuck and would never get away with it. I'd never steal if there was a direct victim though.

 

i havent stolen anything in probably 6 years or more...i dont have the need nor the inclination...

 

well, store i work at is a chain and our mngr and asst managers get in shit when we find stolen prodcut. and it makes us hella mad. theres no need. i mean, we dont sell food or anything, stealing movies is just being an ass. especially when you can download em much more easily

 

I only once was tempted to take a little perfume from a magazine... the perfume was a present anyway... and did take it. This was after I bought a pack of margarine without its cd present. Someone had shoplifted it.