A couple (I am Scouse, afterall)
Encountered a slightly stange situatioon a couple of years back, which technically resulted in me shoplifting, I think. When living in that there London village, I did my weekly bigshop in my local Tesco. When I rattled my trolley up to the till one day, instead of the usual "would you like some help with your packing?", the checkout girl greeted me with "they've just terminated my contract" in quite a cheery manner. This seemed a little starnge, until I realised that it was just her explanation for why that she only scanned one out of every five items that I put on the belt, running the others to the bagging area as quick as they would go. Why would you leave someone you've effectively just sacked on the checkout? Weird. I think I paid a fiver for about £50 worth of shopping. I was tempted to go back and get some booze...

And: when I was 13, I used to nick porn mags out of the returns box at the newsagent where I did my paperound, then flog them for a quid a time at school.

Also: I once nicked a "Chaos Space Marine Captain In Terminator Armour" from Games Workshop. I doubt there'll be a geekier theft mentioned in this QOTW.
(ScousersPet, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 12:40, 1 reply)

Stealing porn and then selling it at school isn't theft
...its a service to society. What would happen if all those hormone-charged teenage boys were denied such an important outlet for their pent-up frustration? It doesn't bear thinking about.

You should be proud of yourself.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 13:07, closed)