Real life stealing experience

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**Kirbinator**

carmachu wrote:No I wouldnt. I'm not a theif.

Thieves are bad, mmkay?

**Flashman**

carmachu wrote:
LunaHound wrote:The examples in this thread ultimately asks one thing.

Pushing all the consequences aside , i would like to know:

If you can steal something and no one will never know and you'll never get caught.

Would you do it?

Of course someone would know. You yourself would know.

No I wouldnt. I'm not a thief.

I'm not sure taking a board game piece when she was 7 equates to Luna being a master criminal. My actions on the other hand... Mmmwhahahahaha.

Seriously, is nobody else going to own up to minor violations of the 8th Commandment?

**Blarglord**

When I was young me and another accomplis (partners in crime), used to go to the local gas station/grocery store and take money from the coffee kitty. Basically when all the people would come in the morning to get coffee, they would come in get a cup, and leave 50 cents in a bowl. We would take a dollar out of it and buy candy. I was involved with it a few times until one day my "partner" decided to perform a petty heist on his own and got caught. Never again would I ever steal anything.

**c34r34lk1ll3r**

I'll go ahead and point out that I was taught Right and Wrong and when I was 16 I was stealing things. I wasn't into war gaming and I wouldn't steal from others. I would always steal from the big faceless corporations because "feth those guys" . My parents didn't screw up teaching me morals I screwed up by not listening.

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figure I would go ahead and add that I haven't stolen anything since then. I did get busted and I got the great joy of paying for it and then some.

I do find it difficult to believe that so many people have never stolen anything. Most everyone has taken something without thinking about it or has stolen something very minor. I stole some pieces of candy from a wal-mart when I was 5. I also steal internet from my friend's neighbors when I'm at his apartment.

**Klawz**

I've stolen some candy from my grandmother once.

I've also stolen a Yu-gi-oh card.

Both happened when I was 7.

Am I a criminal?

**Davylove21**

Does anyone know any kids that can steal some on my behalf? I'm too morally upstanding to do it myself but, you know, these little dudes cost £2 each!

**Tony the guardsman**

I confest that I've stole a wallet from one of my classmates before, but I got caught eventually and was beaten to death after that.After that I would rather get sacked in the balls than to steal another candy.

I really hope I have the same courage again

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Tony the guardsman wrote:Hey all,

This is totally true believe it or not

I caught a model thief yesterday at the store.A 13 ish old kid was watching my game against a nid player, who had his 3000gaunts laying on a side table.He was picking them up, and playing with them.I got suspecious cuz he was not looking at the model when he was playing with it.So then I kept an eye on him until he put like 4 or 5 gaunts into his pocket.He was trying to leave after that, but I stopped him and ask him politely for the stuff back, and thats when my VERY friendly opponent came.

We didnt want a new gamer to get into so much trouble, so we let him go without any charges, and to my suprise,the nid player even gave him a gaunt and taught him a good lesson of how a gamer should earn thier models, not steal them.That kid cried in front of us, maybe too impressed by my opponent.

This is just a briefing, it was much more exciting than this.

Anyone have any similar experiences?

Touching story. You were wrong, but touching story.

You arent doing him any favors by sheildinghim from the consequences of his actions.

**Mr-_-Flidd**

As my dad used to say.

"If you're going to break the law, make sure it's worth it"

Make of that what you will.

We weren't all brought up in morally correct bubbles. Personally, I had quite a troubled youth and made many mistakes. Some small, some massive. But, I like to think that I learned from each one of them.

In a way they have made me the (I like to think decent) man I am today.

Kids will be kids and desperate people do desperate things. Each case is different and most are minor lapses in judgement.

My 2 pennys worth.

**Davylove21**

Mr-_-Flidd wrote:As my dad used to say.

"If you're going to break the law, make sure it's worth it"

My dad used to say: "If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying"

I imagine GW lose more product to screw-ups in the moulding process than to kids. No-one loses. GW might even make a fan who will one day be raped by price increases and dropped support for his squat army.

Rape is worse than theft.

Never take drugs.

**mattyboy22**

Orion_44 wrote:One of the saddest days I worked for GW was when a manager called me and one of our vets had stolen 2 demon princes off the wall and was caught by mall security. GW always presses charges and he got banned from the store. He was 22 years old, his mom called me crying and he was very upset. He was just desperate. It was sad mainly because the manager probably would have given him personally owned demon princes if he needed them that badly.

I usually tried to stop them before they left the store and do something similar to your opponent, sometimes you just can't.

Really, desperate for 2 Demon Princes? How can you be "desperate" for models? That's a pretty lame excuse.

**LunaHound**

Tony , i know many young ones seem to think with the mentality of

"Thats enough , he was caught and learned his lesson"

because you see , lots of the time they arnt caught , and repeat such offense over and over again.

**carmachu**

Tony the guardsman wrote:

I do think it was wrong to let him off the hook just like that, but I also think that he's learnt his lesson as he was crying for my opponent's act

Or he's learned how to cry and gain sympathy for the next time.

I dont think he needed to be arrested and do the perp walk. But certainly confessing his crimes to his mother when she showed up, or calling her to say hey you kid try to steal a couple models was certainly in order.

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Kirbinator wrote:
carmachu wrote:No I wouldnt. I'm not a theif.

Thieves are bad, mmkay?

Sorry, didnt steal when I was a kid. There's certainly a difference when a kid takes stuff when their 3,4,5,6 then when their 13, 15, or so. One's still learning, the other is odl enough to know better.

**Grabzak Dirtyfighter**

When I was 13-14 I used to steal cartons of smokes from the drugstore and sell them off in my neighborhood for beer and pot money. My mom usually bought them from me as well.

Wow my parents were

up!!!

**RiTides**

mattyboy22 wrote:Really, desperate for 2 Demon Princes? How can you be "desperate" for models? That's a pretty lame excuse.

I agree... if you're really on hard times, you shouldn't be in a GW store, it's just too expensive.

As for younger persons/gamers... the only way to learn (if it doesn't sink in from being taught) is through consequences. I'm not sure if I'd press the issue or not... I think it was a noble thing that the OP did. Sometimes an act of kindness goes farther than the letter of the law... it really depends on the situation and, imho, isn't quite as black and white as people think.

But this would be why I don't like having younger gamers around my models

**Tony the guardsman**

I love to have people watching my game, as I've mentioned before, I just love it when people from different ethnities join together and talk about the same hobby(especially when you have those mohowk gangster and a young korean kid high fiving...)

But I always, Always, ALWAYS count my models again and again in the game to make sure that my warriors are not "running away".

But until now it haven't been that much of an issue for me cuz I have a very small army

**Manchu**

Tony the guardsman wrote:but I got caught eventually and was beaten to death after that.

lol

And I've been meaning to say, do you realize that you've only posted about five times for every one topic you've started? Dude . . . chill.

**c34r34lk1ll3r**

Manchu wrote:
Tony the guardsman wrote:but I got caught eventually and was beaten to death after that.
lol

And I've been meaning to say, do you realize that you've only posted about five times for every one topic you've started? Dude . . . chill.

From the guy with over 2k posts

**Manchu**

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:
Manchu wrote:
Tony the guardsman wrote:but I got caught eventually and was beaten to death after that.
lol

And I've been meaning to say, do you realize that you've only posted about five times for every one topic you've started? Dude . . . chill.

From the guy with over 2k posts

I know you must have meant 4k . . . but I'll forgive it this time. Also, I see you yourself have a 10:1 post to topic ratio.

In other news, I declare this very thread stolen.

**Tony the guardsman**

LOL, I like to talk within my threads, it feels like "my territory" for some reason

**I grappled the shoggoth**

When I was 5 I stole a really cool rock from a garden center, my mom found out, and made my turn it back in to the manager.

When I was 16 I used to steal energy drinks from wal mart. There was a spot cameras couldnt see, I probably made off with about 10 of them. It was more an "I cant afford these, and dont need them, but feth the corporations" attitude than anything.

Thats about it. I mean the temptation can always be there to steal. "You know, I could get that box of guys for free, this game store is a hundred miles from my house and doesnt have cameras, etc etc". But Ive never done it. Its wrong, and thats the end of the story.

**Manchu**

@Tony: More than a sixth of your posts have started new topics. That must be some sort of record. Maybe give responding to other people's threads a go?

**Stormrider**

I will admit I stole a .50 cent piece from my Art teacher in 3rd grade. I didn't have one, she didn't look for it after class and I still have it.

Although, I never got caught, I did feel pretty guilty for a while.

In other more troubling news, my house was broken into last October, My PS3, all 8 of my games, a Wii Fit board and about 300 CD's were lifted from my house by drug addicted slime from across town. Then they tried to break in two more times in the next 4 weeks and finally one was caught, the other is still on the run.

Fortunately for those detestable pieces of excrement I wasn't home (in school 2 1/2 Hours away) and my parent's were working. In Missouri, if you find someone in your house, and you didn't invite them in, you can shoot them on site, no questions asked from the police. I would have gone "Iron Hand" Straken on those methheads with my Rmeington 870!

**c34r34lk1ll3r**

Manchu wrote:
c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:
Manchu wrote:
Tony the guardsman wrote:but I got caught eventually and was beaten to death after that.
lol

And I've been meaning to say, do you realize that you've only posted about five times for every one topic you've started? Dude . . . chill.

From the guy with over 2k posts
I know you must have meant 4k . . . but I'll forgive it this time. Also, I see you yourself have a 10:1 post to topic ratio.

In other news, I declare this very thread stolen.

I like to ask questions. Also if you think that is bad you should see my ratio on the White Wolf Forums. ~3800 posts and I've created around 400 threads.

**Manchu**

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:~3800 posts and I've created around 400 threads.

Lol, par for the course it would seem! My own rate is something like over 60 per topic started.

**Papaskittels**

I have never stolen a model but once....

I was in vacation on palm springs.
I saw the FLGS
walked in
loved it

Fell on a Land Raider
Was charged 30 bucks.
Got to keep the LR
And thats how i got into warhammer

**Fateweaver**

How did you fall on a land raider? Did you trip over that invisible laser line used to prevent shoplifting? LOL

I too love Mn castle law. Some donkey-cave breaks into my house to steal my 40k stuff he's a dead man.

**I grappled the shoggoth**

What the hell does donkey-cave mean

**Manchu**

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:What the hell does donkey-cave mean

Click the quote button on Fateweaver's post to find out!

**NoToTheMan**

the owner of the club i play at is good friends with the store owner which we have our groups
he allows us to play after the store closes in a sectioned off room with a lock
this went fine and dandy for a while until people would bring codexes (codices?) in to the area we would play in
they when had to lock the door earlier than normal—forcing people to go outside in order to go to the main part of the store
slightly ticked about that

**Manchu**

@NoToTheMan: Could we have that one more time please?