Grape Gate

[Help-Ma-Boab]

With a well known posters admission of a minor, low level indiscretion it got me thinking of mine.

Some cola-bottles from Moonies sweet shop in the 80s and, a err, a Gents Magazine (special interest) while Holidaying in the Med while a teenager.

Yours?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Were the Moonies enticing kids with sweets?

[numbers]

A lemon sherbert or two from Woolworths.

My mum had refused to buy sweets and found them in my pockets later. I had to return them the next day and apologise.

Haven't stolen since, although have absent-mindedly (almost) walked out of a shop with unpaid items still in my hand.

[Pickle]

I swapped the price tag on a cobalt blue mascara when I was 15 (saved myself at least 25 cents). Still feel guilty when I walk past the shop, 26 years on!

Is blue mascara still a thing, I find myself wondering.

[peckham_ryu]

Swapped price label on a He-Man jelly sweet in Woolies, c.1988.

Woolies insolvency a mere couple of decades later. Coincidence?

[TheArtfulDogger]

Some one once stole my heart ... Never been able to trust anyone since

[red devil]

Panini football sticker packets expertly slipped up the arm of my snorkel parka...Paul Daniels stylee :)

[titch juicy]

I was a bit of a bugger in my early teens- Graffiti and shop lifting were what we did for fun. Paint, pens, records, t-shirts, jeans, boxes of panini stickers. NEVER grapes though- we weren't monsters.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Swapping stickers on the records in WH Smith, in order to ensure 'value for money'. I did take a boat once with some friends whilst very drunk. We returned it to (roughly) the same spot we'd found it at the end of the night though and (by no small miracle), in undamaged condition. I wouldn't say we were law abiding, but we generally didn't nick stuff.

[Jules-and-Boo]

was accessory to the crime of hot wiring a tractor as the tent was too far away...

[rendelharris]

Delightedly rushing home, aged ten or so, when a Macfisheries (what happened to them?) cashier accidentally gave me a ?20 note instead of a fiver in change when running errands. Unfortunately my criminal career shuddered to a halt when I was silly enough to tell my mother, who made me not only go back and return it but personally apologise to the cashier. I always check my change assiduously nowadays, which makes cashiers think I'm suspicious of them, but in fact I'm checking they haven't shortchanged themselves. Shows what an early influence can do...

[Otta]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> a Gents Magazine (special interest)

I actually got collared nicking a similar style mag, and the absolute bastard called my mum. I'd have rather it had been the police.

[Otta]

Razor blades were something iI'd quite often pinch when I was a student. So easy to do in a supermarket if you are actually paying for a load of other stuff.

Razor blades are stupidly expensive!

[Jeremy]

I used to steal biscuits, fruit, etc from the school canteen occasionally.

More recently... I got a takeaway from Honest Burgers without paying (totally slipped my mind and I just walked out). My wife went in the next day and fessed up though!

[uncleglen]

I was working in a large department store on Saturdays and there was a particular expensive item that cost exactly ?5. It was very busy and twice (because that's all I sold, the item being very expensive for the time) people gave me the exact ?5 and left without the receipt, so I trousered the money.....the company is still in business so I suppose I didn't harm it long term. AND they were slave drivers...

[rendelharris]

Otta Wrote:

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> I actually got collared nicking a similar style

> mag, and the absolute bastard called my mum. I'd

> have rather it had been the police.

[Alan Medic]

I can't actually remember ever stealing anything material. I was though a co-conspirator with a friend when he kneeled down as if to tie his lace and broke a little capsule which contained a stink bomb in Quinnsworth.

Obviously none of you realise how many Our Fathers or Hail Mary?s you might get as a sentence once you confessed to your crime.

Bloody pagans....

[KidKruger]

Is this a shoplifting thread ?

Just wanna make sure I mention the right kind of thieving.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

KK any tale from you is gold, but yes, low level pilfering and taxing. But fill your boots.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Is this a shoplifting thread ?

> Just wanna make sure I mention the right kind of

> thieving.

[mancity68]

Packets of vegetable seeds when I was about 7 from the shop across the road which I then plants behind our garage. Shopkeeper caught me eventually and told my mum - got such a hiding.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Strawberries from the field next door. My mother sent us over with a bowl.

[Cassius]

A friend's owned a corner shop which gave money back on empty bottles, so she used to pass the bottles from the back yard over the wall to us and we'd go and collect money on bottles that had already been redeemed - then we spend it all on sweets from that shop anyway so I guess it was a redistribution rather than an actual theft.