theft
I shoplift quite a lot. No excuse for it at all...im not overly poor, dunno...i just do. sorry.

Doing the weekly shopping, the contents of the trolly are usually 80-100 euros or so, I think nothing of slyly opening a few pack of razor blades and shoving them in my pocket, leaving the empty pack with magnetic strip on a shelf. same with batteries and anything else small. I take a cool box with me to the supermarket for the frozen stuff. A few packs of steak or whatever fit nicely under the ice-packs. The till person only ever gives it a casual glance and never sees them.
My crowning glory in the supermarket though was a whole trolly full of food. French supermarkets always have less till operators in place than needed and the queues are often hellish. It was busy, all the tills near one end were open and i spotted a gap between tills where the barrier hadnt been closed. I calmly pushed my laden trolly past the empty tills and out the door.

In the diy shop, i might be after some specific size of bolt or whatever and find they only sell them in packs of 50. if there arent any packs already opened, i will open one and take the few i need. Buying large quantities of things is also ideal for abuse. The bored teenager on the till can rarely be bothered to count them so I just say there is about 10% - 20% less then what I have taken and they believe it.

swapping stick-on price tickets for cheaper prices or pulling a sale sticker off one item to put on the oe i want is another favourite.

I also once drove away from a petrol station without paying, but got caught :( I paid what I owed and nothing more came of it.
(dave likes cheese, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 9:26, Reply)