You know those self-service things in Tesco?
Well I have it on good authority that if you pick up a bunch of bananas and something expensive that you don't want to pay for, you can select 'bananas' from the touchscreen menu, put all your goods on the scale and then pay banana price for e.g. a 42-inch television.
(Eukanuba, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 1:32, 6 replies)

Yeah, but as 42 inch tellys weigh in the order of 40kg it'll probably end up costing you more

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 2:05, closed)

Maybe if it was a CRT...
Certainly not if it was an LED screen
(Darkpie 3.243F6A8885A308D31319, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 10:56, closed)

Bananas are 68p/kilo
Most televisions cost more than that.
(Eukanuba, Sat 9 Nov 2013, 17:39, closed)

I don't know where to start pointing out the flaws in this plan.
One of the main issues is that no till monkey in their right mind will remove the security tag from the TV without checking what has been put through the tills, and most of the time the scales on self service units have a relatively low maximum load on them.

I would suggest that you look on whomever provided this nugget as no longer being an authority, but rather as being full of shit.
( Muns, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 11:10, closed)

I might have exaggerated with the TV
But I've got some lovely colour-changing candles that would have cost £35.
(Eukanuba, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 0:25, closed)

Thats nothing...
If you buy one of those lego minifigures it doesn't even register on the self checkout so you have no choice but to call over the trolley mong who will flick their card at the machine so you can leave without being nonce punched by the security guard.

True story!
(plant rolls out of bed like a fat wobbly tub of lard, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 12:26, closed)