Why do people (with money) steal?

[Anonymous]

Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

[Anonymous]

Thanks!!! I'm calling her right now. This is so helpful. I had better get a pen and write this down...

What exactly are you looking for here? People have given you some good ideas and thoughts which you've responded nastily to. You posted on an anonymous forum and seem to be looking for the ACTUAL answer as to why your BF does this. How the hell would any of us know? Ask your friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

I paid for my item. And, I think a simple, "are you going to purchase that?" would be a better plan than trying to wait for someone shopping with special needs kids to walk out with something would be better. Why prosecute instead of bring it to their attention? She wasn't shoving electronics into her bra.

And, I did pay for my item, as noted on my story about the annoying rent-a-cop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

snitch. very uncool.

[Anonymous]

I'm typing on a phone and annoyed by the poster implying I'm a thief. My sentence structure sucks in the prior post.

[Anonymous]

It could be due to mental illness. I knew someone who was a serious kleptomaniac beginning at age eleven.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she wants more control of her life.

Anyway, Martha Stewart is rich beyond belief, but she had to get her insider dealing in to reap a little more than what could have been gotten soon after the financial markets opened. Wynona Ryder had the money, but she also chose to shop lift.

You think it's mental illness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

snitch. very uncool.

No, snitching is awesome -- it gets the bad apples in trouble and it makes things nicer, cheaper, and easier for us honest people. If you don't like snitches, it's because you're a cheat yourself.

Thank you for reporting her, PP. I would have done the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see many former career women who quit to stay at home and then don't have any separate income so they start stealing when they want something. And the "oops it was an accident," defense is a favorite of this kind of client. Since the recession began their numbers have only increased.

Happy for you and your career but you didn't answer my question at all. What is your point, that stealing is wrong? That you can get in trouble? Um, duh.

I think that's the answer.

Wow, you aren't too bright are you?

Is this the OP -- the person who posted the quotes in bold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

I paid for my item. And, I think a simple, "are you going to purchase that?" would be a better plan than trying to wait for someone shopping with special needs kids to walk out with something would be better. Why prosecute instead of bring it to their attention? She wasn't shoving electronics into her bra.

And, I did pay for my item, as noted on my story about the annoying rent-a-cop.

If you walk out of the store with an unpaid for item it is shoplifting. End of story. No one needs to ask if you plan to purchase that item as you obviously do not. Tough. Sto blamng your child because you are stealing. If you can't watch your child and shop at the same time then find someone to either take care of your child, shop for you, or shop online.

[Anonymous]

18:37 - AMEN!

Let's not make shopping miserable for the honest moms who are responsible. I so would turn someone in, also. Special needs my ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in a store last week and security was following me around. It was a discount store. They didn't have what I was looking for, but I did buy one item. They made an announcement over the PA to check and record a numbered section soon after I entered the shoe dept. The rent-a-cop followed me from one side of the store to the other and then stared at me while I stood in the check out line. I don't know if the stroller was the issue or if the empty stroller with a baby on my hip made me look suspicious. I did put the item in the stroller umbrella thing, maybe that was the problem. But, I couldn't hold the item, the baby and push the stroller. I was annoyed and wanted to throw the $5 pack of socks at him and leave the store. I'm never going back to that location.

This has happened to me, too. I think it was because I had such precious little time to shop for clothes that I was just piling my cart insanely high, with my kid sitting in the front. i'm sure I looked wild-eyed, too -- I was waiting for my kid to put an end to my shopping and trying to do as much as I could before the wailing began. The rent-a-cop was pretty breathless herself trying to keep up with me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I paid for my item. And, I think a simple, "are you going to purchase that?" would be a better plan than trying to wait for someone shopping with special needs kids to walk out with something would be better. Why prosecute instead of bring it to their attention? She wasn't shoving electronics into her bra.

And, I did pay for my item, as noted on my story about the annoying rent-a-cop.

If you walk out of the store with an unpaid for item it is shoplifting. End of story. No one needs to ask if you plan to purchase that item as you obviously do not. Tough. Sto blamng your child because you are stealing. If you can't watch your child and shop at the same time then find someone to either take care of your child, shop for you, or shop online.

Reading is an important life skill. You missed it twice? Really? If your the attorney poster, I bet you're top-notch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops, I rambled on and forgot to get to the point. The lawyer poster may have a point. Do they look for people who are likely to overlook an item so they prosecute? WTH?

If you walk out of a store with merchandise you haven't paid for then you are stealing, no matter how you try to justify. When you steal this makes my prices go up. I saw a woman give her children a box of cookies and then toss the empty box and I reported her. OP, you friend is a thief and there is no other way to put this fact. I would not continue a friendship with someone who admits to stealing.

I paid for my item. And, I think a simple, "are you going to purchase that?" would be a better plan than trying to wait for someone shopping with special needs kids to walk out with something would be better. Why prosecute instead of bring it to their attention? She wasn't shoving electronics into her bra.

And, I did pay for my item, as noted on my story about the annoying rent-a-cop.

If you walk out of the store with an unpaid for item it is shoplifting. End of story. No one needs to ask if you plan to purchase that item as you obviously do not. Tough. Sto blamng your child because you are stealing. If you can't watch your child and shop at the same time then find someone to either take care of your child, shop for you, or shop online.

This is insane. Most well-adjusted people recognize that intent matters. Someone who doesn't know their kid put something in the cart and left with it is responsible for either returning it or paying for it, no doubt, but not for paying the price of shoplifting. That's extreme, rigid thinking. I hope our courts system and police aren't wasting my tax dollars on stupid things like this.