Stealing when hungry.

you can only live on ramen for so long. thankfully i've never been quite that hard up, i'e always had family, especially my mother, to lean on when times are hard. it's why i like to give back so much. i'd never be judgemental about someone stealing when they're hungry. i'd consider it a charitable donation.

 

Many years ago, I lived in the woods with my family of 7, and we lived in tents. We both did odd jobs, as we had burnt our ID, and dropped out of mainstream society. I did housecleaning for quite a few families, and I would look around and determine what I thought they could do without, and then rationalize that I was like "Robin Hood", and take many essentials home to the kids. I did not take things I thought they would miss, mostly the kinds of things that looked spaced out in dark corners, and food from freezers, or cans etc. I took clothes for my husband and myself, and fed our family alot better .


I worked for a church, cleaning, and I went through the food bank donation basket, and leftover snacks form Sunday service, figuring it was collected for people like me, people of limited means. I even stole from "friends" (people I networked with ) who might not agree that I was one (a friend), if they knew that I pilfered for years from them. Why this seemed OK at the time, I don't know, but I somehow felt it was justified. I have embarrassments and regrets about this behavior, and I don't steal anything anymore, but I think i could still be capable, if the situation presented itself. If someone is rich and has too much I just figure it should be mine if I need it. I am glad I have everything I need right now.

When one of my daughters got sick and went in the hospital, I stole many different alternative medicines from my co-op. I read about her illness on-line and they said this and that would help, so I checked out the prices and they were so high, and I just wanted her to get better, that I just got everything they said to, just took them. It seemed right at the time.

I went through stealing as a teenager too, but stopped stealing from stores when I got caught. I dined and dashed and spent a week in jail. Now, I have everything I need, which is still poverty level in some peoples mind. I think it was having children that made me feel I needed to get what they needed no matter how I had to do it. Food was of major importance at the time.

I feel like I am a good person, and these instances just taught me alot about myself and the world around me. I am not sure why some people feel it is allright to take things, and others feel they just couldn't.

 

You stole from a co-op?

I can ALMOST justify stealing from a large corporation, but I work at a food co-op and we don't hardly make any money as it is...and I get paid a wage that makes me below poverty level.

I'm not saying you're a bad person, but I just think that's really sick. That's why it's hard for me to justify any stealing...because someone is ALWAYS losing out. I don't want people to steal from me. I work hard for everything I have...that's why I have such a guilty conscious about stealing anything...because someone somewhere along the way had to work their asses off for what they have.

 

Rich is a very, very relative term.


A person from say Liberia or Sierra Leone would view the poorest
Westerner as well off.

Would anyone justify the loss of a posession to disparity of wealth?

 

I remember stealing foodage from the store... but then I also remember there was this bakery that would always give like slightly misformed bread and that kind of stuff away.. same with the restaraunt I worked at like if someone used like linguini noodles instead of spaghetti noodles for something they would put it in a takeout box and leave it in the window like they knew someone was comming.. and the kids/people always knew it was all right.. and if it had been a really good night they would leave pizza's and stuff out because they knew they made enough to cover the cost of it..

 

Not the one I worked at when I was younger.


And no, I don't think stealing food when you're truly hungry is wrong. Gotta eat.

 

My brother was a cart boy for a major grocery store. He watched some guy steal a bunch of meat. Security tackled and body slammed him and the whole time meat just kept flying out of the guys jacket.

They could've stopped him and let him go. It wasn't necessary to kick the shit out of the guy and have him arrested.

In answer to the question, however, I'd have no problem stealing food if I were hungry. However, there are far better alternatives such as food banks. We have them all over the place here. Especially in low-income areas.

 

I've never had to do that thankfully, but you better believe if my kids were hungry and I wasn't able to afford to feed them, I would.

 

i actually never left the store - i snuck down into the basement and ate the food down there and then left. the basement was where they stored all the food before it was shelved - well, all the dry food that didn't need to be refigerated or frozen.

 

Ha, that reminds me of a time I took some frozen pizzas from the freezer at Walmart...went into Walmart's break room, microwaves them there...and just sat and ate them at a table... no one questioned me.

 

haha, thats great. sometimes, i'll go into a store with a microwave and get a burrito or something. and microwave it and just walk out haha. i mainly do that when the place is busy or when the microwave isn't right in front of the registers

 

dave and i had a date night a little while back, and we went out and got a bit drunk. we had to stop at the grocery store, and i had to pee. so we went into the break room and while i was in the bathroom, dave sat at the break room table eating chips and watching jerry springer.

 

Haha

I love big stores that are full... shit...christmas season... you can literally walk out with a thousand dollars worth of groceries and no one will know. (ofcourse I wouldn't do that... Santa would be uber pissed! )

 

Hahaha, did he talk to the other people sitting there?

 

no, they just kept looking at him.

 

I've stolen food when I was hungry, but I'd rather shovel shit in Hell before having to resort to that again....

An 8 hour workday for 5 bucks will get you a days meal before you steal...

Big Corp. Inc., robbing or not, you're still just a thief.

 

I think if I were in a situation where I had to, then I would.... but I wouldn't steal for the sake of stealing.

 

stealing from a large corp is as impossible as stealin from the rich.

 

yeah when i was little i didnt always have to steal. like at school i got lunch for free. and when me and my best friend lived in sacramento in elementary school there was this salvation army that we would always pass by when we walked home from school. we would stop in every day after school and they would give us croissants or like make us sandwiches or something. it was the elderly people that worked there they were so nice. like in the summertime and when i wasnt in school or like when we were in between houses was when i had to steal.

 

we used to go to the church up the road for free sandwiches.