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.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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From the worst place possibleI was a good kid until university so I was a late bloomer. First time I ever shoplifted, my friends took me to a shady military surplus store (the kind with Nazi paraphernalia here and there[including apparently a swastika flag hanging from the ceiling at one point]). Lots of military surplus clothes, lots of useless antiques, books, and a LARGE selection of firearms.
I found the patches section, which was filled with tasteless and racist patches. I settled on a "Viet Cong Hunting Club" patch, and one club with Bart Simpson in fatigues. It said "Tailhook '91 - I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove a thing." All I know about the reference is that it was some sort of navy conference in Vegas where there was an unusually large number of sexual harassment complaints (83 women and 7 men according to Wikipedia).
Anyway, I slipped into the washroom, stuck these two patches deep in my pocket, and got the hell out of there before one of the gun nuts who worked there noticed.
Here are pictures of both patches.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/TailhookPatch2.jpg
www.diggerhistory.info/images/cloth/hunt-club.jpg
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 13:06, 2 replies)
It wasn't about the costI'm not going to give my money to a store that sells Nazi paraphernalia.
(, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 2:12, closed)
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