Anyone stolen anything?

[bigpriest]

I scanned a bags worth of shopping in Sainsbury's, packed it and walked out, forgetting to pay - so easy. Arrived home and had that feeling something wasn't right so drove back and pretended to do the shopping again before scanning and paying.

[toasty]

The Hofff said:

I was heading to a cash point at the local petrol station, the sun shines direct at it and the screen is aged so difficult to see in the bright day light.

I was walking up and a guy was using it, trying to block of the sun with his hand to see the screen etc. The machine ejected his card and he stood there waiting for the cash but nothing came. He tutted, shook his head and gave up walking back to his can and got in.

Now, I knew that there is a very long delay between card ejection and money being presented from this cash machine as I'd been there before, as I finish walking over to the cash point the cash from his transaction pops out - must have been a few hundred quid at least.

For a couple of seconds I consider my options.... and grab the cash.

I walk over to his car and tap on the window. Get a WTF look from his then I wave the cash so he opens his window. Get a thank you but none of the cash, ah well... good deed done. I know the machine would have eventually sucked the cash back in but if it was someone else passing it could easily have gone bye bye

I've had the same, called the guy back and gave him his cash.

[Prak]

hotchy said:

Filled a full tank, popped in and got stuff for dinner.

I have done similar. Got food at the same time as fuel. When paying, they asked "any fuel?" but I just auto-answered with "no, just this thanks", as I was so used to being upsold on some chocolate or something.

Got back in the car and was about to exit the station when there was the tap on the window ...

[anonymous-user]

Pit Pony said:

I have gone BACK to Tesco with the product I've failed to pay for and asked to pay for it.

They looked at me like I was an idiot. But it's the way I was bought up.

Honesty is most important.
If I'm over paid in change I point it out.

Done this at a restaurant. Realised they hadn’t charged for puddings , they actually apologised and refused to take the money.

[TooLateForAName]

red_slr said:

I reckon you could get pretty far these days in a fake Hermes / DPD uniform and carrying an empty amazon box.

Yep. Last year I was in a mobile phone shop in a shopping centre when they had a delivery, one guy brought a load of boxes in goes back to bring more, second guy comes in and says these are the wrong ones and takes some of them out again. 1st guy comes back, was asked about 'wrong ones' . 'what wrong ones?'

Recently I found a phone, tablet and wallet in lidl. Had been left on top of the hand dryer in the toilets.
I handed it in to staff but on my way out of the store met a worried looking bloke looking around. Asked if he'd lost something, he seemed quite relieved when I directed him to the service desk.

[so called]

toasty said:

The Hofff said:

I was heading to a cash point at the local petrol station, the sun shines direct at it and the screen is aged so difficult to see in the bright day light.

I was walking up and a guy was using it, trying to block of the sun with his hand to see the screen etc. The machine ejected his card and he stood there waiting for the cash but nothing came. He tutted, shook his head and gave up walking back to his can and got in.

Now, I knew that there is a very long delay between card ejection and money being presented from this cash machine as I'd been there before, as I finish walking over to the cash point the cash from his transaction pops out - must have been a few hundred quid at least.

For a couple of seconds I consider my options.... and grab the cash.

I walk over to his car and tap on the window. Get a WTF look from his then I wave the cash so he opens his window. Get a thank you but none of the cash, ah well... good deed done. I know the machine would have eventually sucked the cash back in but if it was someone else passing it could easily have gone bye bye

I've had the same, called the guy back and gave him his cash.

I've done a similar good deed when on holiday in Spain.
Stood with my girlfriend waiting for a bus and car with Italian plates pulled up in front of us.
Driver got out and walked off up the street.
I walked around the back of his car to look for the bus, noticing the heated argument going on in the car as Mom, son and daughter had hands flying in every direction.
Then I saw a big fat wallet lying by the drivers door and realized the driver had dropped it.
I picked it up and tapped on the window to attract the mother. She took one look at me and turned her back with a dismissive hand gesture.
I turned to the back of the car and son and daughter did the same.
Went back to my girl friend and showed her my 'fined'.
We hadn't much holiday money so it was a temptation but, no. Went back to the car and tried again.
This time the son realized it was his dads wallet. Window dropped, wallet snatched out of my hand, window closed and I wished them a happy holiday.

When Dad got back to the car, all hell broke loose as his misses let rip, poor chap.

[21st Century Man]

I stole a choccy bar from the Co-op when I was little, but old enough to know better, I was seen by a staff member who didn't do anything. I've felt bad about it for fifty odd years, I've never stolen so much as a biro, a bottle of tippex or a sneaky use of a work photocopier since.

[WolfAir]

I wanted a cadburys twister (who remembers them?) when i was out with my aunt one day.. she wouldnt buy it me so i swiped it.. tried to eat it behind the sofa when we got home and my cousin found out. She grassed me up to my mother who, after a good talking to, marched me back to the shop to pay for it and apologise.
Another time i took a teacher's book.. Vlad the drac. She bad lent it to a girl whom i had a massive crush on.. danielle. Not sure why i took it and got her into serious trouble. She had to pay for a replacement.. never did get my leg over. The book wasnt even that great.. still have it.

Now that i'm older obviously i do not intentionally take anything.. and if it happens i try to go back or put the value in to a charity box or such.

[sanguinary]

hotchy said:

sanguinary said:

Just last night at the local Co-op.

I had two items, tachos and sour cream. Scanned the tachos (£2) and put them on the scales. Realised they'd scanned twice and the scales hadn't picked this up. Had my second item to scan (£1.50,), looked across at the customer service and the queue, along with the covid queue to the checkout I was on and figured the best thing I could do for everyone was to pay the £4 for the tachos and sour cream, which should have cost me £3.50.

So yes, I stole some sour cream. But it cost me 50p.

Thatll be a pain when tachos turn up as the epos says its out of stock while we all wait for the never turning up sour cream..

Yes, I see that now. Do I go back and try to buy one sour cream and get the till to register two? I don't want to be responsible for the Great North Eastern Sour Cream Shortage.

[vixen1700]

Pit Pony said:

If I'm over paid in change I point it out.

Indeed. Got paid back change from a twenty recently when I only gave a tenner, wouldn't dream of landing the till staff in trouble over it.

[CS Garth]

No - I presume the people who do petty pilfering have a completely relaxed attitude to being stolen form themselves? I suspect not.

People who steal are aholes. Integrity is doing the right thing even though no one else is looking.

I honestly believe people who steal, pilfer or otherwise obtain things dishonesty, including not correcting mistakes made by others, are pretty poor humans.

[can't remember]

lord trumpton said:

Pit Pony said:

I have gone BACK to Tesco with the product I've failed to pay for and asked to pay for it.

They looked at me like I was an idiot. But it's the way I was bought up.

Honesty is most important.
If I'm over paid in change I point it out.

You shop at Tesco!!??

Urrrggghh

I take it the security are a bit too alert for you at Tesco eh fingers?

[MG-Steve]

As a teenager I was a scout, at a jamboree camp one summer a fellow scout dared me to steal an unattended packet of Regal king size and lighter. I accepted and completed the challenge. We smoked every single one that weekend and my crime went unsolved.

I am still addicted to nicotine to this day (23yrs later) it’s cost me thousands of pounds and knocked years off my life. Crime does not pay.

[gtidriver]

Slightly off topic,I have a small wallet with 10or so credit/debit cards, there tightly packed in, i set quite a few shop door alarms off. Most super market security guards know me now and just say oh its just your wallet, i could take anything now as im so well known, i wouldnt though. On the plus side for mild humour as i walk in and beep, sometime people going out get stopped..

[underwhelmist]

The Hofff said:

I was heading to a cash point at the local petrol station, the sun shines direct at it and the screen is aged so difficult to see in the bright day light.

I was walking up and a guy was using it, trying to block of the sun with his hand to see the screen etc. The machine ejected his card and he stood there waiting for the cash but nothing came. He tutted, shook his head and gave up walking back to his can and got in.

Now, I knew that there is a very long delay between card ejection and money being presented from this cash machine as I'd been there before, as I finish walking over to the cash point the cash from his transaction pops out - must have been a few hundred quid at least.

For a couple of seconds I consider my options.... and grab the cash.

I walk over to his car and tap on the window. Get a WTF look from his then I wave the cash so he opens his window. Get a thank you but none of the cash, ah well... good deed done. I know the machine would have eventually sucked the cash back in but if it was someone else passing it could easily have gone bye bye

I've done similar, went to use an ATM and a hassled young woman with a toddler and a baby in a pushchair had wandered off leaving her £50 in the machine. Took me a few minutes to find her. She just rolled her eyes when I gave it back to her, it must happen a lot!

When I was a kid I absent mindedly walked out of a shop with a comic I hadn't paid for, I did go back and pay for it though.

[Ewor]

Not quite stealing in fac5 I think the opposite...Went to Madonalds drive through with the the works admin girl, oredered the food at window, drove to next window paid for food, got back to work and discovered we had driven off without picking up the food on third window-I think I was distracted by the admin girl

[Nickp82]

I never scan carrier bags in Sainso’s.

[gtidriver]

Slightly off topic. A few years ago I found an unlocked iPhone on the floor at Gatwick arrivals hall, i could have just pocketed it i suppose but i thought id do the correct thing and find the owner, i scrolled through contacts and found "home" i called it and said id found the phone, the woman i spoke to started to rant about me picking up her dads phone, how i had no right, how i was a criminal for going through her dads private property etc, i just said if she didnt wind her neck in id put a pin lock on it and either hand it in or id bin it, some people are so fking ungrateful, i gave it to a worker at whsmiths, the owner worked at the airport.

[konark]

TooLateForAName said:

red_slr said:

I reckon you could get pretty far these days in a fake Hermes / DPD uniform and carrying an empty amazon box.

Yep. Last year I was in a mobile phone shop in a shopping centre when they had a delivery, one guy brought a load of boxes in goes back to bring more, second guy comes in and says these are the wrong ones and takes some of them out again. 1st guy comes back, was asked about 'wrong ones' . 'what wrong ones?'

Recently I found a phone, tablet and wallet in lidl. Had been left on top of the hand dryer in the toilets.
I handed it in to staff but on my way out of the store met a worried looking bloke looking around. Asked if he'd lost something, he seemed quite relieved when I directed him to the service desk.

Are you sure it was Llidl? . No Lidl I've ever been in has had toilets or a service desk , or any other facilities, you're lucky if there's a bloody cashier on the till..

[CourtAgain]

konark said:

TooLateForAName said:

red_slr said:

I reckon you could get pretty far these days in a fake Hermes / DPD uniform and carrying an empty amazon box.

Yep. Last year I was in a mobile phone shop in a shopping centre when they had a delivery, one guy brought a load of boxes in goes back to bring more, second guy comes in and says these are the wrong ones and takes some of them out again. 1st guy comes back, was asked about 'wrong ones' . 'what wrong ones?'

Recently I found a phone, tablet and wallet in lidl. Had been left on top of the hand dryer in the toilets.
I handed it in to staff but on my way out of the store met a worried looking bloke looking around. Asked if he'd lost something, he seemed quite relieved when I directed him to the service desk.

Are you sure it was Llidl? . No Lidl I've ever been in has had toilets or a service desk , or any other facilities, you're lucky if there's a bloody cashier on the till..

More than likely staff toilets, the only "desk" is opposite the tills where you hurriedly pack your 9 bags of shopping for £26 before the cashier rushes to serve the next customer

My two year old is always picking up anything like sweets or biscuits at her level within her reach in our local convenience store.