ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking 32x'sThis is a retelling of a mates story. As I don't think I've ever nicked anything from a shop, not intentionally anyway.
My mate discovered an aptitude for thieving at an early age, and being smarter than your average criminal was also more successful than your average criminal. He'd started small, the odd bag of sweets here, the odd item of clothing there. The items being thieved did escalate, to effectively anything that people asked for, shoplifting to order.
So after growing more and more confident in his criminal endeavours, my mate accepted an order for not one, but two, 32x megadrive addons (a slightly obscure peripheral, for what is now, a slightly obscure videogames console), retailing about £100 I think, about 15 years ago. Each of these items came in fairly large boxes, so getting them out in their packaging was not an option. A diversion was hastily arranged, packaging was discarded, and items were stashed. All in all, quite successful trickery.
Now for the escape; my mate realising that legging it arouses suspicion, sauntered out of the shop. Well, he would have done, had the shops security guard not detained him on his exit.
The two 32x's were wrestled from his possession, authorities were notified, but worst of all his mum was phoned.
He maintains that the look of disappointment on his mum's face was enough for him to never try his hand at shoplifting again.
Length, girth, depth, etc.
(, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 15:53, Reply)
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