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[–] 55 points 7 months ago
[–] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have never witnessed someone stealing groceries...and I never will.

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    [–] 133 points 7 months ago (37 children)

    Just remember, if you see someone stealing food...

    ...No you didn't

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I once remember reading a story where a police SQUAD chased a woman for over 3 hours in a police chase.

    The crime? She had stolen 2 loafs of pumperknickle bread, and ran out of the store. Employees chased her, got her liscense plate, and cops pursued.

    They then arrested her, and I forget the exact jailtime she got, but it was more than 10 years. If I were an employee, I'd have "chased" her. Just enough to get my bosses to think I was trying, but then oh no, I'm too fat and slow! She got away in the parking lot.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Stealing anything not from a private non rich individual.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I actually am excited to teach my kid tricks to get free shit from places like Amazon and Walmart. I've mentioned my excapades a few times, and have instilled in him we don't steal from our neighbors no matter how small, people work hard for their shit. But companies that report $54 BILLION in profit and treat their employees like trash are fair game.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I'm a school bus driver in a good school district and I drop off one kid who then waits at a bus stop for a city bus heading for the really poor city right next to us. I know exactly what's up and I would never say shit about it. And I also live in this district and pay the exorbitant school property tax every year, so it's not like this doesn't affect me.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    *stealing anything. (As long as they're stealing from a business, at least.)

    You could be holding the cashier at gunpoint and emptying out the register, and I didn't see shit.

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Corporation, you mean.

    The word business covers honest people making an honest living running their own thing, too.

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  • [+] -11 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Just because a business is small doesn't mean it's honest.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    True, but they're probably not ripping you off and reporting billions in profit. Corporations are almost guaranteed to be. My neighborhood gas station is not on the list.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    but they’re probably not ripping you off and reporting billions in profit.

    Nah, they're just ripping you off and reporting thousands in profit.

    They're doing the exact same thing, just on a smaller scale. And if you got rid of the big corpos, they'd grow to fill the void left behind and start doing it on a bigger scale.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    So every working person is an asshole and the only ethical way to obtain food is to steal it?

    Doesn't seem too ethical to me. Sounds like a justification for being an antisocial asshole.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    So every working person is an asshole

    Nah, most of them are just working for an asshole.

    and the only ethical way to obtain food is to steal it

    Well, you could also grow it yourself.

    But, sure, stealing is one of the most ethical ways to obtain food.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That is true, but it doesn't automatically mean that business = dishonest. I like to give human beings some benefit of the doubt in a way that abstract things like corporations do not get. They were born into the same superficial capitalist dystopia I was, and their job might simply mean being self-employed and dealing with the general public. As somebody with a desk/wfh job, that sounds sucky in a retail sort of way.

    Don't misunderstand me though -- plenty of them are total shitbags. I need to find a new local mechanic and it sucks. I'm just saying check your assumptions.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I was getting tires put on and the parking lot was connected to several other businesses one being a large chain jewelry store like Jared or Smythe. So I'm standing out front smoking a cigarette and I see commotion at the jewelry store a few guys jump in a car , it winds through the parking lot at high speed and blows right by me standing on the curb ,out onto a main street and towards the interstate. It was a gold seabring from enterprise with a driver that looked like Troy Polamalu and two guys laying down in the back seat.

    It was a fucking heist ! I thought wow that's cool , finished my cig and sat back in the waiting room . 15 minutes later the pigs show up , I act like I'm reading a magazine and I hear two dudes ( that were preachers at some Baptist church from their conversation i had overheard earlier) point at me and tell the pig " oh he was just outside maybe he saw something ". Pig came over I said "nah , don't now what your talking about" and kept reading the magazine. The tire store let the pig see their security footage and then he comes back over to me , red faced demanding I tell him what I saw. I just said man I don't know what the fuck your talking about and wasn't outside at all since I got there and those two guys were lying. I kept reading the mag and the clown walked away after trying to explain to me how serious the situation was .

    Nobody got hurt , they locked a UPS guy and the workers in a vault and took a bunch of jewelry. 6 months later I saw on the news they all got caught, it was an crime ring with pigs from NYC involved in the hyjinx. Glad I never wound up in that court room.

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  • [+] -27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The only people who say this are out of touch rich kids

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    Most people pay twice as much

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Some grocery stores only give a staff discount on certain days of the week. But the five-finger discount works every day

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Don't even need to steal it, just gotta show the staff your fidget spinner tits and they get so amazed that they give you everything for free. I've been doing it since 2019

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Wait. Am I replacing my tits with fidget spinners, or am I supposed to be affixing fidget spinners to my tits?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Born that way, your mother would have had to use fidget spinners as utensils the entire time she was pregnant. For every single meal.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I once saw a lady walk right through the self checkout and out the door. The only reason she got caught was she picked up a big frozen crab legs box and that triggered the alarm.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Entrapanure is great, love their shit on youtube. Maybe I should look for their other accounts. Didn't realize they had any. https://youtube.com/shorts/N3CiOjTDTEs?si=LXd6noh0wlGS3IpU This is their most popular short so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We are not that far from vandal hordes surviving by pillaging and looting. Just make sure you are on the bigger hordes side and you should be okay. It all starts with shoplifting out of necessity and lack of opportunity.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Where I live, there are entire homeless encampments, like little villages of tents and tarps.

    Fentanyl is said to be a big part of the problem. Meth was already a huge problem by itself.

    So long story short drug war= heroin and cocaine scarcity= cheap quickly available chemical alternatives like meth and fentanyl= addiction spiral increase= poor and homeless= Windows can't open a window without lagging. IT'S IN THE NAME YOU CAN'T EVEN DO IT

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Shoplifting? Y'all need Cheez-its!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    shoplifting is based as hell, this worked really well for me. /j

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    [–] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This is a funny meme and all but allow me to ruin the fun. This kind of small scale thievery in the absence of actual systemic change just leads to things being more expensive for the common person.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Do you not remember the 90s where food spoilage, warehouse theft, and petty shoplifting were rife? And yet, whaddayaknow, the retailers still made profit with their low prices.

    Retailers jacking up their prices under the pretense of covering theft losses and the public lapping it up is the best mind trick they've pulled yet.

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