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Manchu wrote:

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

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

oh thats it. I was fully expecting some new and exciting term

When I was about 13 I stole a toy from a local gift shop. I forgot what it was but I remember when my dad found out he made me go back & pay for it. Luckily for me the owner was very nice & let me off, the event was just really embarrassing and I've never stolen again.

However I do think about it lot, would never do it again, but I'm an Information Security & Forensics major so I'm always thinking up how the best way to beat any security system is and what I'd have to do to patch the vulnerability

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:oh thats it. I was fully expecting some new and exciting term

Nah. I was confused, too, the first time I saw someone called a "fething witch gak" (or somesuch) around here. I thought "well that's an odd looking phrase."

Fateweaver wrote: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 am really surprised that The People's Republic Of Minnesota has the Castle law, there is hope for this country!

Mn leans a little left but it's surprisingly very conservative in a lot of regards. Thankfully the gun laws are one area that liberals have failed to feth with. They try but they get shouted down pretty quick.

Though are welfare system is probably one of the most atrocious systems in all of the US so that's why it still leans left. Free handouts to all.

as a child of about 7 or 8, i stole two Star Wars action figures from a TG&Y store. i remember it as being my brother's idea, but somehow i was the hatchet man, and i took the fall for it. somehow my father discovered the ruse (i had hid them under my shirt) on the car drive home, and took me immediately back to the store and made me return them personally to the manager. i was so mortified that i never shoplifted again. i still have nothing but the utmost scorn for shoplifters (sorry Morrissey!)

Lets see.... I was 15 when my friend stole some food from a local gas station. I didn’t even know till the old man that owned the place put his hands on our shoulders and asked to see what was in our pockets.
Had me freaked out something major. Had me thinking if this old dude does not get his hand off me........ I was ready to fight when my friend burst into tears. Put me off my guard.
The old man made him put all the stuff on the counter. He had taken two cans of Vienna sausages, a can of spam and those little bag sandwiches. After the cops where done with us we had both been pegged as shop lifters. Him for stealing and me for running cover for him……..?
Never had a clue, but It stuck with me till today. I forgave him though when I found out from his sister that their dad had lost his job months before and they had not been eating.
Asking him about it later he pony upped to it that the food was for him and his sis. Wish I had known I could have done something even if my family never had any money.
So yes I think stealing is wrong and I have seen some theft in my local stores. Now I know there is no reason to steal at all……but you have to have some sense that what your doing is wrong or you would just pick up said item and boldly walk out of the store.
I mean come on it takes a little planning to steal. Is anyone looking, will it hide under my shirt. Should I hold it for a little or just shove it out of sight fast.
My gaming buddies now take turns playing and watching when others our around. This after my War boss on Wyvern walked off.
Then my Lizard friend saw his Lizardmen Stegadon do the disappearing act.

Well kids story time is over, lets put up our pillows.
And a good day to you sir.

I wasn't telling a fairy tale, it was true that I stopped someone from stealing

I loved stopping shoplifters.

I tackled one guy outside of a supermarket I worked at. Jumped on his back like a spider monkey and he must have slid about 3 feet on his face and stomach.

That was back when you could actually physically stop someone without fear of lawsuit.

I was a nicer sercurity...I could've, but I didnt

One of my friends got his bud from school back to gaming. He had stolen a guard heavy weapon box and told us about it, so we never let him hang out with us. Later he got one of those big green plasma gun cardboard box things and filled it up with stolen witch hunters and grey knights stuff. One staff member saw that there was a couple demon hunters items missing found that odd since no one buys thems. As the kid is walking out the store with over $300 dollars worth of DH stuff a staff member grabbed him and gave him the banhammer. It was awesome seeing him cry like a girl in front of the whole store. hehehe.

Whats up with thieves crying when caught?

Natural Reaction?

Latent defense mechanism?

Expression of genuine regret?

Miniature nervous breakdown?

Further evidence of emotional immaturity?

I guess. Probably a sympathy attempt more then anything.

It's a big stew of fail is all I meant.

Well what ever makes them cry, I always pull up a chair and watch the snot bubbles fill up the air. And it gets really good when the parents come and go ape **** crazy at the managers. Its their kids fault, not the stores.

A kid came into my LGS, tried stealing a dvd, and proceeded to cry like a baby when he got caught. Fortunately his mom was mad at him, not management. He said "i didnt know stealing was wrong, my brother does it all the time".

Sometimes I have seen parents get angry at kids. Which is what a good parent should do. ( if i ever got caught stealing my mother would slap the shizzle out of me) But kids would end turning them around by saying "I didn't mean to, now they are going to ban me from the store and every other store around, now the hobby that cost you $$$$ for me is over wahhhhhh." Then parents get mad and Management for making such a choice for punishment which serves them right. If your stealing, then your immature too play the game.

I once saw a kid trying to steal one of my trygons. I put it on the table behind me as it was dead, and when I turned around it was gone. I noticed it sticking out of the pocket in his coat. So I jumped over the table, tapped him on the shoulder. And when he turned around I tiger punched him so hard in the face it smashed his nose completely flat. The doctors say that 11 years old is too young for plastic surgery, so we all call him tau boy now. I decided not to press charges for his inconveniencing me, and when I punched him it made my wrist a little sore.

But do you make the kid play Tau? It's the only way he'll really learn a lesson.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:I once saw a kid trying to steal one of my trygons. I put it on the table behind me as it was dead, and when I turned around it was gone. I noticed it sticking out of the pocket in his coat. So I jumped over the table, tapped him on the shoulder. And when he turned around I tiger punched him so hard in the face it smashed his nose completely flat. The doctors say that 11 years old is too young for plastic surgery, so we all call him tau boy now. I decided not to press charges for his inconveniencing me, and when I punched him it made my wrist a little sore.

They didnt try to sue you for the punch?

No, we made him paint the store owners world war 2 historical themed communist guard army.

Painting historicals? Oh God, that's even worse.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:No, we made him paint the store owners world war 2 historical themed communist guard army.

Do you have his address?

Manchu wrote:Painting historicals? Oh God, that's even worse.

Its vosotroyan guard, 250 infantry and 4 basilisks


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LunaHound wrote:

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:No, we made him paint the store owners world war 2 historical themed communist guard army.

Do you have his address?

Why would I have his address?

LunaHound wrote:I cant speak for others ( since everyone is different )
but for myself i grew up with the basic idea of. I wouldnt like that done to me ( stealing included ) so i wont do it to them.

That's how I've always endeavored to live my life as well. Matthew 7:12 speaks a great deal of sense after all.

I think Cicero's On Duties is a good example of how one should live

At my local GW we have a bitz box. A local Tau player lost a devilfish and 2 Broadsides... few weeks later they appeared in the bitz box. Which other players traded for...

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:Why would I have his address?

Dunno i'll laugh if he runs off with the owner's army he was supposed to paint.