Have you ever stolen something?

[tyred]

In the days before barcodes, I used to swap price tags around in the local supermarket...

 

[ChrisKH]

No never have. Remember having a panic attack when I was 12 (big for my age) as I had just bought a load of fireworks and the legal age limit was 14. Shop assistant asked for my name and address and I was too shocked to make up a false one so gave my real one. Nothing happened, but i had visions of the police turning up and locking me up.

Actually, tell a lie, when I was 15 and skateboarding had just become popular, we were making our own rocker boards out of plywood, fibre glass and fibreglass resin. I ran out of the latter on a Sunday and I was desperate to get the board finished and took it from the boat yard scrap bin and barrels left outside the factory at the end of my road.

So Auntie Helen, if your Catamaran hull should fail sometime in the future, it's because the boat makers didn't have enough resin and fibreglass left to finish it off............

 

[threebikesmcginty]

when I was 15 and skateboarding had just become popular, we were making our own rocker boards out of plywood, fibre glass and fibreglass resin.

Off topic but We must be similar ages - I made my own skateboard too, had no chance of getting the fancy ones advertised in the mags. Mine was made from a piece of 6 x 1" with a roller skate, split in two, nailed to the bottom - the front corners of the plank were cut off for aerodynamics. Basic but functional....halcyon days.....

ahem! - carry on with the thieving so to speak...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

ps 2000 posts - ooo 2001 now!!

 

[yello]

think she may have even let me feel her boobs

obviously memorable

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

I did once accidentally steal a magazine from a motorway services. I'd tucked under my arm when I'd gone to the cash desk. I had my hands full with a bottle of water, maybe a sandwich, and my wallet etc. Put said water and sandwich on the desk and paid for them and left... mag still firmly clamped under my arm so I didn't drop it!

 

[Wigsie]

obviously memorable

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

I did once accidentally steel a magazine from a motorway services. I'd tucked under my arm when I'd gone to the cash desk. I had my hands full with a bottle of water, maybe a sandwich, and my wallet etc. Put said water and sandwich on the desk and paid for them and left... mag still firmly clamped under my arm so I didn't drop it!

So thats a YES then you theiving gypsy Yello... not a "In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever stolen anything."

 

[yello]

100% of all thefts are, um, knowingly committed.... or something like that

Oh god... is that the police at the door?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh god... is that the police at the door?

bonjour bonjour bonjour - ce qui est tout ceci alors ensoleille jim?

 

[ChrisKH]

Off topic but We must be similar ages - I made my own skateboard too, had no chance of getting the fancy ones advertised in the mags. Mine was made from a piece of 6 x 1" with a roller skate, split in two, nailed to the bottom - the front corners of the plank were cut off for aerodynamics. Basic but functional....halcyon days.....

ahem! - carry on with the thieving so to speak...

Oh yes, we made ours with roller skates first as well. This was in the halcyon days when I had got enough money for green Kryptonic 65mm wheels and ACS 651 trucks but a really crappy board. Solution; make it yourself.

We also had a very understanding Metal Works teacher at school, and whilst I never took it for cse or o-level he would let us take somebody else's skateboard, make a sand mould, and pour molten aluminium into the mould to make our own boards. Bit deadly round the edges though. Mr Kirkham, wherever you are, I salute you. You wife was a bit of alright as well.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We also had a very understanding Metal Works teacher at school, he would let us take somebody else's skateboard, make a sand mould, and pour molten aluminium into the mould to make our own boards.

Mr Kirkham, wherever you are, I salute you. You wife was a bit of alright as well.

 

[Arch]

At my primary school in one class (when I was 6 or 7) we had a box of little plastic odds and ends to play with - probably things that came out of crackers. I took a small green plastic elephant from that.

Sadly, that really is the only thing I can think of.

 

[got-to-get-fit]

Ive stolen one or two virginities

 

[tyred]

The book thread has helped me remember stealing two Professor Brainstawm books from the school library. I still have them yet, complete with library stamp.

 

[Arch]

It's certainly had a lasting influence though.

Gosh, yes, I wonder if that was the start of it all!

 

[Lisa21]

Its not REALLY stealing but when Asda did pick&mix I got a huge bag,weighed it and it came to something like £3.95but I thought sod it its a neccesity!!! but couldnt resist having the occasional nibble as I was doing the rest of my shopping. By the time I got to the checkout and the girl weighed it it had gone down to about 70p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im sure the first lot of scales were broken tho