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Shoplifting

I saw a shoplifter flee from the local Aldi a few years ago, pursued by security, and about 5 other male shop staff. I think he must have been well known to all of them.

It ended up like a rugby scrum outside the store, with all of them piled on top of him, trying to pin him down.

He somehow managed to escape from underneath the whole scrum, only to make it a few meters, realise he was missing a flip-flop I believe, of all things, and he decided to go back for his flip flop, rather than make good on his escape 😐

Presumably because he'd already been done so many times, that one more shoplifting charge meant a lot less to him than his flip-flop.

What a mad world we live in :roll eyes:
 
Bleaney said:
I saw a shoplifter flee from the local Aldi a few years ago, pursued by security, and about 5 other male shop staff. I think he must have been well known to all of them.

It ended up like a rugby scrum outside the store, with all of them piled on top of him, trying to pin him down.

He somehow managed to escape from underneath the whole scrum, only to make it a few meters, realise he was missing a flip-flop I believe, of all things, and he decided to go back for his flip flop, rather than make good on his escape 😐

Presumably because he'd already been done so many times, that one more shoplifting charge meant a lot less to him than his flip-flop.

What a mad world we live in :roll eyes:
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What a fuckin chav! Who the hell goes shoplifting in flip flops? Bet he had his dirty grey trackie bottoms tucked into his shit stained socks as well.

That's the problem with criminals these days, they've got no class...
 
Yeah. He probably did.

Fortunately this was before that mercifully brief but hideously awful phase of chavs wearing their grey trackie bottoms, so baggy/ loose at the arse, that they effectively hung from people's calves.

I dunno if this was a national thing, or just local, but My God it was embarrassing to even have to look at the state of those twats.

This must have been the worst "fashion crime" that I've ever had the misfortune to witness. If the shoplifting chav had been wearing his trackies in such "style", he'd probably have lost them in the scrum too, and would have had to have gone back for them, as well as his flip-flop!
 
When I was in the mental health shelter, we had to figure out lunch on our own because we're forced to leave from 8am to 4pm. So I had two options in my opinion - go to the soup kitchen, or steal grab-and-go sandwiches from stores.

I usually picked the latter if I did eat at all. Stole maybe, 100 times? 7-11, CVS, Star Market, things like that. I'd just carry it with me like I was still shopping, and then when in an isle with no one in it, put it in my backpack that was around my shoulder and already unzipped and zip it. In the winter it's easier, just shove in the inside pocket of the peacoat.

Got caught twice. Once in a big supermarket I got sandwich from maybe a dozen times in a row, finally someone noticed I guess. They stopped me at the door and had me open my backpack, said don't come back. Other time was at 7-11, this girl on the register came out and caught me, she said put it back, so I did, then left.

To answer the justification question, it was because I was hungry and knew that the stores would barley feel the impact. 1 mans basic human need vs. 1 mans percentage of a percentage on a profit margin? Yeah fuck off why should I care?
 
When i was a teen "my friend" would go in large chain supermarkets with a reusable water bottle made of aluminium, go to the alcohol section then fill up my bottle with the strongest thing they had and walk out maybe buying a chip with cash to not raise suspicion, other times just went YOLO and chugged the booze right there on the spot then leaving as the employees debate wether or not to do something. Another thing "my friend" (who'm i forgot to mention but i hit my head and completely forgot his name) did was go to pharmacys and obtain DXM, usually for syrup it was easy peasy, grab the box, go to an empty part of the pharmacy, take the bottle out of the box (the box usually contained the anti theft thing that causes the alarm to go off as you leave) and leave with it either in the coat or under the groin in the underwear. One pharmacy in a rich part of town was not used to shoplifting, it was noticed they had no anti theft thingies so no need to take the bottle out of the box, this pharmacy was thus lifted for a couple weeks in a row until one day the alarm sounded, the manager had caught on and put anti theft thingies in the boxes, bro bolted the fuck out of there, jumped over a fence or two to evade security cameras, it was then discovered cops did'nt give a shit so now no more stealth, it was walk in the pharmacy dont even stuff the shit in your pockets just trip the alarms and get the fuck out of there. While "my friend's" face was allways hidden by a covid mask, sunglasses and a sweater i still dont know how the police never became a problem.
 
When I was around 15 I discovered a trick, though it had nothing to do with drugs. At my local 5 and 10 store I realized that a record album would fit exactly inside the Parcheesi board game box that I was buying for my brother ( no plastic wrap or seal on the game box in those days). Smart me, I stuck 3 albums in there, walked to the register and bought it, no problem.
I was pretty pleased with myself so next week I came back and got another game, loaded it up with even more records, now it weighed a ton, went up to the counter. Mrs "S" was at the cash register, the mother of a classmate and it was a small town so of course she knew me. She calmly without saying a word, opened the Parcheesi box, took out the records, and charged me for the whole lot without saying a word. Very embarrassing but I was really grateful she didn't tell the store owner would have called the cops.
 
There's a widespread myth that shoplifters in this country don't get pursued or stopped, but they
F.U.B.A.R. said:
When I was about 13/14, I had a nice little side hustle of stealing porno mags from the top shelf of various newsagents, then selling them on the school bus the next day :LOL:
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I had to deliver them, usually in a paper bag. I was thirteen / fourteen at the time. It was always fun if somebody was at the door when you arrived.
 
So this was long enough ago that it's probably not possible many places anymore thanks to how ubiquitous modern technology is. But back in the latter 00s early 10s there was this huge used bookstore that was a treasure trove of college textbooks, books, comics, albums, cds, dvds, blu ray , etc. they had so much inventory they just put color coded stickers on everything with prices on it. Was way too easy to just peel off and replace with another. Couldn't get too greedy or make it too obvious but yeah I got a lot of shit from there.
 
About 20 years ago I tried to steal a beer from a 7-11 corner shop type place. Mind you I thought I was being pretty stealthy, I only had enough money for like, 5 beers or something when I thought I could buy 6. So after paying for 5 I said I'd just put the last one back on the shelf, but sneakily put it in my bag with the others instead. Somehow the shopkeeper guy saw me and yelled at me asking what I was doing as I tried to leave, so I was like whoops you caught me shucks hah ah well here you go, and gave it back to him. For some reason he was still pissed off though and said he'd call the police. I remember thinking this was pretty unreasonable at that point since I'd given it back, I didn't know what else to do though so obviously I just left the shop and ran away. :LOL: I remember thinking afterwards if I was gonna end up running away anyway I may as well have just followed through with my plan... but there were a couple of other people in the shop, just queued up watching this stupid scene play out so I guess it was a bit embarassing and I didn't wanna cause trouble really. So that was the end of my shoplifting adventures as far as I can remember. :unsure:
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
The problem is that organised crime gangs have muscled in and are ruining it for the genuinely needy.

Them pesky cameras don't help either... :sus:
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I know there a pain in the arse ,the budget POE ones record audio very clearly as well
Supposed to be for any racial abuse etc in shops /takeaways but it's just for the owner to listen to staff
 
Actually the word shoplifting is an ancient term ,thieves would actually lift the corners of shops (market stalls) to get to the sweet olives inside
So my mate told me
 
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