Something I've always wanted to know.
I would imagine that you need to have your wits about you whilst shoplifting, so how the heck do smackheads manage to be so good at it?

I really don't think I'd be any good with a straight head, yet these guys can do it whilst whacked out of their skulls on goofballs.

The only reason I can think for them getting overlooked or unnoticed by security is that the guards aren't paid enough to potentially have a bunch of syringe wielding drugratz ruining their day.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 15:52, 4 replies)

I think most people give themselves away when shoplifting, looking left, looking right
and generally acting a bit shifty.

I imagine most smackheads\seasoned shoplifters just aren't nervous enough to act that suspicious, or are high as kites, which probably has the same result.

I've known smackheads who've robbed fucking great big food processors and similar stuff. You just need to be high, or have hugemongous balls to get away with it it seems.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 15:57, closed)

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I agree: it's largely a matter of sufficiency of brass neck, from what I've been told by and about seasoned "community shoppers".
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:18, closed)

'Community shoppers'
Like it :D
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:52, closed)

They aren't
I used to work in a joke shop, you could hear the smack heads planning to steal from us literally a yard away, 'cos they were so smacked they would 'plan' at top volume whilst outside the door. We would just shut the door.
( ..wil, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 23:39, closed)