Shoplifting

[HARDKOREBJ]

i saw the cops arrest someone who was caught shoplifting in the store today.she wouldn`t let the manager look in her purse.now that is just so sad that someone would have to resort to that.

 

[fgarvb1]

shoplifting

people do it far many reasons. most have the money to buy the stuff to start with. i think a lot of it has to do with instant gratification.

 

[Always]

hey, i only shoplift when it's something i want and i don't have the money. i don't get the stealing stuff for the thrill, and you don't stick in in your purse, you drop it down your pants.

 

[Sad Man]

hey, i only shoplift when it's something i want and i don't have the money. i don't get the stealing stuff for the thrill, and you don't stick in in your purse, you drop it down your pants.

I used to shoplift a lot when I was younger, I only did it for the thrill and I found sliping it up my sleave worked best.

 

[Never]

hey, i only shoplift when it's something i want and i don't have the money. i don't get the stealing stuff for the thrill, and you don't stick in in your purse, you drop it down your pants.

I've been surrounded by things I wanted but couldn't have for most of my life, yet, I've never shoplifted.

 

[Renegade]

Shoplifting: Been there, done that. Mostly did it when I was younger. Guess it was a phase or something that I went through at a time. These days I've no real intention to ever shoplift anything again. Although, some prices for things these days sure make it tempting at times. Sheesh.

 

[Cheyenne]

hey, i only shoplift when it's something i want and i don't have the money. i don't get the stealing stuff for the thrill, and you don't stick in in your purse, you drop it down your pants.

Are you purposely trying to make us hate you for some reason? First the fake story about your brother being saved in NY, and now this? I see the trend- lying and stealing is okay in your book.

It isn't in mine.

 

[Silverlily]

Obviously being in retail, to me a thief is the LOWEST (did you hear that AJ?) form of life on the planet. Always, I hope they catch you and cart you off in cuffs.

There is never a good excuse for stealing.

 

[teresafannin]

I also work in retail & the cost to consumers is horrendous. We prosecute shoplifters as much as we can. Lying & cheating is wrong, but when you live in a fantasy world, I guess you can make up your own rules. Always, have you ever heard of getting a job??? It is amazing, you can pay for the things you want.

 

[Samuari]

Obviously being in retail, to me a thief is the LOWEST (did you hear that AJ?) form of life on the planet. Always, I hope they catch you and cart you off in cuffs.

There is never a good excuse for stealing.

AMEN!

We caught a woman tonight trying to steal 3 CDs, total value: under $50. Her ten yearold daughter got to see her mother led out in cuffs. Some people put a really low value on their integrity.

 

[Adoratrice]

I am ashamed to say that when I was about 11 or 12 I went on a shoplifting spree and stole some makeup and nail polish from a Walgreens.............I have never forgot it and It is the one thing I would hate to tell my kids that I did......and they know pretty much everything I have ever done. I still go to Walgreens just to give them my business cause I felt so bad.

About 2 months ago I was at Walmart and I bought a whole bunch of stuff....well when I got to my van I realized that I forgot to pay for a stencil that was at the bottom of the cart....it was $1.77. I did not have time to return it right then but I took it back 2 days later and paid for it. Even though I knew I was going to take it back I felt horrible and could not even use it til it was paid for.

 

[YoungGun69]

I used to steal porn magazines from a store when I was younger to rent them to kids at school.
Then I got caught.
After that never again.

 

[Adoratrice]

ewwww...rented porn mags.

Nuh-uhh

 

[YoungGun69]

ewwww...rented porn mags.

Nuh-uhh

not that way.
we charged them $2 a week to borrow a magazine.

 

[Lancaster]

I used to steal porn magazines from a store when I was younger to rent them to kids at school.
Then I got caught.
After that never again.

I used to buy them and then give them away.
You can see why I'm still buying lottery tickets.

 

[GuyJD]

THAT'S NOTHING

I was always working at a drug store but I kept my police badge on me at all times. One night, a homosexual couple came to do some shopping. One was dressed in drag. The "drag queen" bought over $100 worth of cosmetic. But the boyfriend decided to shoplift a $2 eye pencil. The greatest thing is that he lovd his fiery so much that he hightailed up the block and left the drag queen take full blame. The drag tried to play it off and claim that he/she didn't know what was taken. But after I notified a unit to come and take him in for accessory to theft, he panicked and told the assistant manager that he'll pay for the item that was shoplifted. I replied, "How can he pay for it if he doesn't know what was stolen?"
The drag told the Asst. Mgr. what was stolen and when the asst. mgr. repeated it to me, I told him, "Cool, then he does know what was stolen. He can explain it to the guys at the station."

 

[teresafannin]

The shoplifting incident that made me the angriest was when we caught a 40 something woman who had been stuffing things in her daughter's backpack. When our AP guy went up to them as they tried to leave the building, the mother ran to her car, jumped in & left her 14 year old daughter to take the blame. I was furious that a woman would leave her young daughter behind with a man she didn't know. Our AP people wear regular street clothes & they rotate to different stores so the theives don't get quite so famililar with them. Luckily, the daughter told everything & the police went to the woman's house & arrested her. She ended up being charged with theft over 500.00 & abandonment of a child.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I have never shoplifted. I don't think I'm missing out.

 

[cymbidia]

I shoplifted one time when i was about 13 years old. I was with a couple friends and they were used to doing it and i wanted to be cool, have them like me. (Yeh, peer pressure strikes again. Thirteen is such a hard age. Anyone willing to go back there?)

Anyway, i stole a cool pencil.

They laughed at me, those girls, when we were outside and around back and looking at what we'd taken. My pencil versus their cosmetics.
I was humiliated.
I was also stricken with a FIERCE sense of having done something very wrong.

I decided not to steal again, unless it was something worth being humiliated over. (Since then, "worth being humiliated over" has metamorphosed into "worth being jailed for".)

And i've never shoplifted again.

Now i have a 13 year old daughter who has a few questionable (can we say "pregnant by 17", boys and girls?) friends of her own.

Parents walk a very fine line with 13 year olds - too much pushing about friends and they cling more tightly to those friends than they really wanted to, you know? At this point, i have to hope that the moral groundwork i laid in the girl from the time she was a little thing kicks in and holds up despite what her friends do, you know? I still have influence over her, a lot of influence - we are very close - but she's 13. Fourteen is next. At 15, as she often reminds me, she will be able to begin driving. She's taller than me already, and is beginning to slide one foot out the door, and that is as it should be, however hard on me it is.

I really hope she doesn't do any shoplifting.