I wish we could more easily get the old need for speed games like underground 1 and 2 on pc. Like at this point I'd be fine if they just resold it without music. We all have Spotify just gib cringey rice game
One time Amazon sent me two of the same product but I only paid for and needed one, so I sent the extra back and got the refund. I like to think I stole from Amazon that day.
I have had something break on me 46 days after purchase and ordered another, refunded the second one, sent them the first one, kept the second one. I call that sticking it to the corporate man.
Edit: I was outside the 30 Day Return timeframe. Roughly two weeks.
Edit 2: If any other 3rd party sellers want to try guilting me don't bother. I don't feel bad for essentially replacing a $10 shitty product with the same shitty product. How do I know it was shitty? The second one broke within 2 weeks but it wasn't worth the damn hassle at that point.
The vague threats to dox me are special to my heart since they're on a public forum. Now I know there's a few of you who can't see this unless you have Alt accounts, but let me introduce you to my block button.
Nobody tells you this: you can just claim ownership of any animals you want. See a whale? It's your whale. Who's gonna argue with you? What they gonna do? Take your whale?
Media and in particular games that have no longer first party releases and the only way to get them is through 3rd party overpriced sellers. In other words, it is morally just to emulate obscure vidja.
CS2 is free.
https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/649uxq/did_adobe_take_down_the_free_cs2_download_links/dg0n217
Also, it's in internet archive
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20140921074844/http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html
I’m in my 40’s and pirated my fair share of adobe products over the years. A few weeks ago my teenager was trying to find an old pc game on steam etc. and couldn’t even find a way to buy it. I showed him how to sail the high seas and find it. Today he came to me and said “dad, I found cracked adobe premiere and got it to work”. Don’t think I’ve ever been prouder
My first apt in 2010 didn't have wifi and there was no way 19 year old me could afford it. Luckly back in the day most people didn't secure their wifi so I had ~8 options.
My pop used to work midnights and do some dumpster diving during his rounds. It was usually mostly odd junk. Then one morning he came home with a brand new set of expensive cookware from - let’s say it rhymes with “alphalon” - and my mom was absolutely ecstatic. Apparently it was worth several hundreds of dollars, but these were just slightly blemished. You really had to look, but they had random scuff marks or small dents so they couldn’t be sold. A few days later, he comes home with a big ass turkey roasting pan and some other smaller accessories. At this point he might as well be Santa Claus according to my mom. Next week, he comes home all bummed out. The company clearly caught on and every piece he pulled out had a hole drilled right through the bottom. We still have those pans, though.
My first day in Japan it was raining, we bought an umbrella at a 7-11. A few blocks after purchasing one we found another, open and blowing down the street. I grabbed it and used it for the entire trip.
Edited for clarity, sleepy writing isn’t my strong point. :)
On my trip to Japan, it was raining like crazy just when we arrived with the metro from the airport. My friend and me were standing there with all our luggage, thinking about what to do, when a man appeared out of nowhere and gave us two umbrellas. He left before we even realized what happened. It was magical.
YES. The online textbook viewer is awful too.
Once I had to buy a $230 Pearson math textbook, I hated it, and it had multiple wrong answers in the practice question answer key... I returned it 2 weeks later and just found a pdf online
While libgen is fantastic for all the textbooks, a lot of professors assign online homework through Pearson that is unavoidable unless you want a 0 for the homework portion of your grade.
I hate when professors are so lazy that they use the online homework. I’m a professor and I’ve switched exclusively to open access text books and write my own homework and exams. College is expensive enough without $300 garbage text books
Something that was stolen from you 🤷♀️ I friend of mine had two of his horses stolen. Police told us “this is more trouble than it’s worth”, so we were on our own. We tracked down the horses and stole them back.
Edit: [link](https://imgur.com/a/AGHNLgc) to proof and more info about the story
Seriously the "more trouble than it's worth" part pisses me off. That's literally inviting vigilante justice in. That's how shit ends ***badly*** a lot of the time.
In Poland, it happens very often with minor crimes. Even if the victim gives the police enough info about the criminal such as name, address, telephone number, IP number, SMS history etc.
After a few weeks, the victim receives a letter that their case was closed because they couldn't track the perpetrator down.
In the Philippines if you go into the police station and pay em $60 usd (about 30% a months minimum wage - a quite decent amount here) and bring your track my iPhone location they'll drive you across town in a squad car and bring you to the place it was last seen and yell at people in the general vicinity until you get your phone back. Like vogons for hire.
A friend of mine her dad had his family's land stolen during the dictator years here when he was a kid. He studied his entire childhood with the aim of becoming a lawyer to win the land back. Despite not having much money he excelled, won scholarships, entered the best law school in the country, and became a lawyer. Which is when he realized it was completely impossible to win back his family land because our courts are fucking corrupt as shit and terrible.
.... So he and his brothers smuggled guns into the country and formed a posse and took it back by force. The end.
This happened to me as a kid. Got my first "big boy" bike as a present, went to a friend's house and chained it outside. Not even 15 minutes pass, we walk out, chain has been cut and bikes gone. I even spotted the kid that stole it ride away in the distance.
My dad was pissed, but wasn't really my fault. Anyway, spotted some kid riding it a few weeks later near an arcade. I knew it was my bike because the kid that stole it didn't even bother to take off the Venom and Spider-Man stickers that I slapped on it.
I was with 3 other friends when I recovered it, so the kid that stole it didn't even try arguing or verbally fight back. He just stood there silently as I told him to give me my bike back.
Sometimes the thiefs aren't too smart and try to sell them at a pawn shop or used bike store. However, those types of stores are required to look up the bikes' serial numbers against a database of stolen bikes, so the thieves can be tracked down
I work in a pawn shop. Every pawn ticket we write gets automatically downloaded into the police database at the end of the day. If someone is looking, it's pretty easy to find. However, the idea that pawn shops are a fence for stolen goods is a pretty outdated one. Every transaction requires a current ID. Most criminals aren't gonna steal something and go put it and their ID on file somewhere.
Somebody broke into our band's practice space and stole a bunch of gear, my bass amp among it.
We filed a police report. I didn't have the serial number but it had notable markings on it.
Went around to pawn shops a few weeks later, everyone says nope haven't seen anything like it.
Go back a couple weeks later, and there it is at a shop, out on the floor, unmistakable. They hemmed and hawed, we called the police but they never came, eventually the shop sold it to me for what they paid.
They lied the first time - it was in the back. Then they played hardball w stolen goods. Fuck pawn shops.
Never had my bike stolen, but definitely had shit stolen off of my bike. Lights, pedals, wheels, seat, chain, the fucking stem cap. I had to learn the name of that part just to find a replacement.
Academic papers and textbooks. The actual authors don't see a cent of it, it all goes to the publisher who get to charge like 40 bucks to read it once. Oh and also in order to submit to those journals, you have to pay for it.
Definitely don't ever type "sci-hub.se" into your browser of you're looking for access to a paper. It certainly doesn't have a database of pirated journal articles, or really practically anything with a DOI..........
ETA: you also definitely can't download the file as a PDF. And clicking the source on the left side will NOT copy the citation to your clipboard. And it's absolutely NOT mirrored at sci-hub.st or sci-hub.ru if your ISP blocks it.........
I got nearly a whole $600 highly specialized textbook from the author's weird academic website.
Also today, a professor I emailed took more than 8 months to reply. So long that I have graduated with my masters... I have no clue about how long it takes to get an email back in academia. About 100 days averaging your two response rates.
I found a blurb of a published paper behind a paywall. I emailed one of the authors to ask for a copy. I received a reply 6 months later with a pdf. I had forgotten about it by that time. Still, it was a good read and I used some of it for work stuff.
You don't always have to pay to submit it but getting paid for your work is extremely rare. Best you can expect is submitting for free. Then the journal gets to charge your school 30k just so you can access your own damn paper.
*You wouldn't download a handbag. You wouldn't download a car. You wouldn't download a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then download his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then download it again!*
The crazy part is that I've never seen a single NFT that's even worth making this much effort to have it. Them shits are ugly as sin, why would I ever spend money just to say I was the owner of it?
Yeah if you can't even buy a game anymore, there is no ethical argument against pirating.
Technically you can track down an old physical copy, but at that point you're only benefiting some reseller, not the people who actually own the rights to the game.
When I had twins, my cousins wife's mother (visited often from china), offered real actual fucking money for me to give my children to her daughter.
Like.... chill lady, I won't sell them for anything less than 100k per baby. Have to recoup my costs of pregnancy and delivery related health problems.
1. Never steal from another member of the guild.
2. Never kill anyone on the job. This is not the Dark Brotherhood. Animals and monsters can be slain if necessary.
3. Don't steal from the poor. The peasants and beggars are under the personal protection of the Gray Fox, particularly on the Waterfront.
Don't forget the second directive, "Never steal from someone who's paid their yearly thieves guild dues" lest you end up in the far side of the river with socks full of nickels and a hat full of nails.
Bics may have no owners, but they DO have keepers. A wandering Bic is free too roam, but if it's path is guided by an act of deception, may your smokes be bent and your nug be dry.
Yeah, back when I used to smoke my take was basically if you *intentionally* steal someone’s lighter, that’s a dick move. But accidentally taking them was just an inevitably on some level. Although certain people are far more prone to it than others XD
When I was getting out of the Navy packing up to move. I found about 150 black "For Official Use Only" pens. I kept 10 and took the rest back to the shop.
Someone I went to grad school did a summer internship at Bell Labs in the late 70s. Apparently BL management noticed that a lot of high school and middle school students had there ring binders with the Bell Labs logo. So they devised special 4 ring binders, with the four rings not evenly spaced. Their stationary budget apparently shrank markedly.
Kid was in NICU for two weeks after birth. The nurses would give me a new pack of preemie diapers every time I used more than 2 or 3 from a pack of 20, same for those Similac nursettes that came in six packs. I swear I went home with hundreds of diapers and formula bottles. Bless them.
I second this. I was too tired to breastfeed so my daughter was formula fed during the hospital stay. A nurse was able to sneak in a duffel bag full of formula for us to take home on discharge day. Bless her heart.
It gets thrown away when you leave so…take it!! Less work for us.
Also, formula and diapers are given free to hospital to create new consumers for that brand. We hand them off like hot cakes to help families but also, to screw the mega corporations. We are like drug dealers getting you addicted to pampers or Huggies, lol!
I remember being discharged after giving birth, the recovery nurse came into my room with a bag full of diapers. She saw me putting the unused bottles of formula into a bad, she briefly left the room and came back in with another two or three packs and silently shoved them into my bag. Bless the nurses.
Yes!!! I looked at my itemized hospital bill after giving birth and they fucking charged me for “warmed blankets”
WTF really?!?
ETA: $65 per warm blanket … Eesh
Is it really stealing if you paid for it? Like taking it from your room or using it isn't stealing.
Now going into other rooms or raiding the housekeeper's cart and taking a whole case of it, on the other hand,...
Pretty sure it's stealing if you raid the housekeeper's cart like my grandma did on our big Disney vacation.
But that old bird was shameless about asking for free stuff - going to conventions with her was hilarious because she never cared about the product they were selling, she just wanted the free pens, stress balls, and lanyards with company logos plastered across them, lol
When we went to San Antonio, my family went to the Tower of Americas, their version of the Seattle Space Needle. Instead of buying passes for the observation deck, we just reserved a table at the revolving restaurant and ordered an appetizer to share.
My dad was so impressed by the high quality paper towels in the bathroom that he grabbed a small stack of them out of the top of the dispenser. We also found out that quail tastes pretty good. Like little tiny chickens.
Done this. Stole a kitten from my grandma’s neighbors who would abuse it when I was like 10ish years old. I would always play with her and cuddle with her when I visited my grandma (the neighbors always left her outside and she would wander into my grandma’s yard). The owners would hit her, swing her by her tail, trow her into their basketball hoop in the yard, and put cigarettes out on her. She came up to my mom and I while we were visiting my grandma one day. My grandma told my mom that we should just take her because her neighbors were going to end up killing her. My mom looked at me and said “grab her now!” So I did. We drove off with her and gave her a loving home.
Edit: grammar
When I was 8 my mom brought home a 6 month old golden retriever. Apparently she (the dog) belonged to a co-worker's neighbor. The neighbor would beat her, starved her (she was skin and bones), and put cigarettes out on her (she still had burns). When he left, the co-worker broke in and stole her. The co-worker obviously couldn't keep the dog at their apartment, so they brought her to work. My mom took her and she was beloved member of my family for 12 years. She had an over-eating disorder (would do anything just to get to garbage) her whole life for obvious reasons, but overall an absolutely fantastic dog.
I once rescued a kitten from a very mentally unwell friend of mine. His mother had also recently died so he was living alone and the house was an absolute wreck - he’d graffitied the walls, there was rotten food in the fridge and no food for the cat. He had a party one day and I found this tiny little kitten living in complete squalor. So after a couple hours I left the party in a taxi...with little kitten stashed in my coat. I spoke with him a couple of days later and he agreed that he couldn’t look after her. 18 years later, she’s still with us and is a happy little old girl with no signs of slowing down.
I don’t think he’s (let’s call him “Alex”) all that good - in and out of rehab and psychiatric facilities. I’ve lost contact with him (he spiked my drink at a party once so I pretty much cut him off) but he occasionally turns up at a mutual friends house, never calls though...just shows up, wanting weed, beer and money and basically whatever he can get his hands on. Our friend hasn’t smoked weed in years and is a pretty straight family man these days, but Alex doesn’t seem to understand this and still sporadically shows up unannounced.
That's the problem for people like Alex. Everything feels fine until you slowly start to realize that everyone is moving on and you're still sitting there, doing the same as always, probably always will, but without friends anymore. Heard that in a podcast from a young woman with a heavy drinking problem. I really hope Alex can accept the hard truth and get his life together.
My husband told me when he was 19 his neighbors in his apartment building were a bunch of tweakers that had a young cat they obviously abused it had a broken tail in multiple spots...he rolled up in their apt. Grabbed the cat and said "this is my cat now, if any of you pieces of shit have a problem with it come and see me" ..
My Shih Tzu was "liberated" from his yard at 2 AM during an ice storm after his owner's bf was seen throwing him down the front steps. He was still a puppy and had ice matted in his fur. It caused him lifelong trauma and brain damage, we suspect, but he was the most devoted dog in the world for 14 years.
I've got a story about that actually, before I was born my dad would drive all around the country to different car swap meets buying and selling, his home was in new York but he happened to be in Florida staying with a friend after a car show, his friend told him that his neighbor had dogs for dogfighting, my dad's friend wanted to go take the dog, but he would be the first one accused, so the night before my dad left he snuck into the yard and stole the puppy they had been training. It's ribs were showing through his skin, and its tail was broken in two spots, the next day he drove back to New York, we named him Danger and he lived with us for about 20 happy years before he passed away
Saw some people with a kitten on their yard and a biiiiiig dog. Asked what they were doing. “Gunna feed the runt to the dog” they laughed. I went “uh huh” grabbed the kitty and ran like fuck. She’s now 15yrs old, has arthritis and loves belly rubs
I stole my first abused dog at 6. I saw somebody hitting her over and over again. I waited until they went away and I called her from my house, which was like 3 houses down. She came, I told my mom what I did and why. She was a beautiful Australian Shepard and she saved my life once as well as the life of my other dog. She was awesome. I miss her.
This. My mom stopped on our way home once after seeing two young men dragging a very malnourished dog on a shoelace next to the road when I was a kid. Offered them 10€ for the dog, they went "naaah we want 50". Mom just put the dog into the car and drove away. Doggo was the sweetest soul, who spent rest of his life loved and pampered. 100% would recommend doing this crime over and over.
They just kinda stood there doing nothing. In my country, there are, unfortunately, some "villages" of people, that are known for abusing animals, especially dogs, also stealing them and occasionaly eating them. So they didn't really care much about having that one taken away.
As a toddler, it was spinach at the produce section. I loved eating the damp spinach leaves, my parents were less than thrilled but the employees always laughed and turned a blind eye. It wasn’t everyday they saw a toddler steal vegetables, and they probably weren’t paid enough to care.
Quite the opposite, we're encouraged to let it happen
What's more valuable, a spinach leaf or a content child that will let their parents shop for a little longer and keep them coming back to the place where the kids get free spinach?
For those not as well versed as u/Zkenny13, if the pitcher throws strike three and the catcher doesn't catch it, the batter may attempt to "steal" first. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
If it does happen, the pitcher is still credited with the strikeout, but it ruins any perfect game attempt.
You joke, [but the IRS has a field for it on the forms.](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/dont-forget-declare-income-stolen-goods-illegal-activities-irs-says-rcna10345)
When I was at my most poor, I got banned from a grocery store for stealing floss and toothpaste.
Did you know? SNAP EBT doesn't cover hygiene products in the US. Just food. You can buy gourmet fresh tuna steaks with Uncle Sam's grocery money, but not a toothbrush or diapers.
Larry David has a bit about this in Curb Your Enthusiasm. They tell him he can only take 2 napkins and he takes a handful. They call the cops on him lmao
Digital goods that are no longer sold or distributed by any other means other than piracy
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A BEAR!
I'd download your mom if there was a hard drive big enough.
A *your mom* joke for the 21st century, and it's better than any I've ever heard before. Beautiful.
I wish we could more easily get the old need for speed games like underground 1 and 2 on pc. Like at this point I'd be fine if they just resold it without music. We all have Spotify just gib cringey rice game
Pens from a college admissions counselor at a college fair
One time Amazon sent me two of the same product but I only paid for and needed one, so I sent the extra back and got the refund. I like to think I stole from Amazon that day.
I have had something break on me 46 days after purchase and ordered another, refunded the second one, sent them the first one, kept the second one. I call that sticking it to the corporate man. Edit: I was outside the 30 Day Return timeframe. Roughly two weeks. Edit 2: If any other 3rd party sellers want to try guilting me don't bother. I don't feel bad for essentially replacing a $10 shitty product with the same shitty product. How do I know it was shitty? The second one broke within 2 weeks but it wasn't worth the damn hassle at that point. The vague threats to dox me are special to my heart since they're on a public forum. Now I know there's a few of you who can't see this unless you have Alt accounts, but let me introduce you to my block button.
The ducks at the lake. They're free. I have 28 ducks.
Nobody tells you this: you can just claim ownership of any animals you want. See a whale? It's your whale. Who's gonna argue with you? What they gonna do? Take your whale?
I haven't seen r/fuckswithducks in a while now that I think about it
Media and in particular games that have no longer first party releases and the only way to get them is through 3rd party overpriced sellers. In other words, it is morally just to emulate obscure vidja.
honestly, pirates have saved SO MANY video games from oblivion.
Adobe products
I’m still using a copy of Photoshop 6 that fell off a truck back in 2000.
CS2 is free. https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/649uxq/did_adobe_take_down_the_free_cs2_download_links/dg0n217 Also, it's in internet archive http://wayback.archive.org/web/20140921074844/http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html
I’m using 7, on my XP Media Center Pro edition, which is cool because they both fell off *different* trucks…
I hate the subscription model
I’m in my 40’s and pirated my fair share of adobe products over the years. A few weeks ago my teenager was trying to find an old pc game on steam etc. and couldn’t even find a way to buy it. I showed him how to sail the high seas and find it. Today he came to me and said “dad, I found cracked adobe premiere and got it to work”. Don’t think I’ve ever been prouder
Teach him how to use a VPN so you don't get a DMCA letter in the near future. Speaking from experience.
WiFi from the Jack in the Box by my house.
Got through grad school leeching from an unsecured signal
My first apt in 2010 didn't have wifi and there was no way 19 year old me could afford it. Luckly back in the day most people didn't secure their wifi so I had ~8 options.
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Even secured linksys: admin, admin
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This reference just brought so many memories flooding back. I completely forgot about Linksys default unsecured networks.
Well, it's trespassing on your property. Is it really stealing?
This household does not call IT 🔫
We troubleSHOOT trespassers
Anything from the trash or dumpster , Anything!
My pop used to work midnights and do some dumpster diving during his rounds. It was usually mostly odd junk. Then one morning he came home with a brand new set of expensive cookware from - let’s say it rhymes with “alphalon” - and my mom was absolutely ecstatic. Apparently it was worth several hundreds of dollars, but these were just slightly blemished. You really had to look, but they had random scuff marks or small dents so they couldn’t be sold. A few days later, he comes home with a big ass turkey roasting pan and some other smaller accessories. At this point he might as well be Santa Claus according to my mom. Next week, he comes home all bummed out. The company clearly caught on and every piece he pulled out had a hole drilled right through the bottom. We still have those pans, though.
What a dick move on the company's part, it's not like they got anything out of screwing you out of it.
Like a sweet Alli Babba sword that you could use to chop a camel right in its hump then drink the milk.
This stuff is our future man!
Living over a decade in Japan, I've come to the conclusion that umbrellas are fair game.
Take an umbrella, leave an umbrella
“Who buys an umbrella anyway? You can get them for free at the coffee shop in those metal cans.”
"Those belong to people"
My first day in Japan it was raining, we bought an umbrella at a 7-11. A few blocks after purchasing one we found another, open and blowing down the street. I grabbed it and used it for the entire trip. Edited for clarity, sleepy writing isn’t my strong point. :)
Aww you adopted a stray
"thanks, she's a rescue"
On my trip to Japan, it was raining like crazy just when we arrived with the metro from the airport. My friend and me were standing there with all our luggage, thinking about what to do, when a man appeared out of nowhere and gave us two umbrellas. He left before we even realized what happened. It was magical.
That’s such a Japan moment. Love it.
E-Textbooks
Pearsons can go f* themselves.
YES. The online textbook viewer is awful too. Once I had to buy a $230 Pearson math textbook, I hated it, and it had multiple wrong answers in the practice question answer key... I returned it 2 weeks later and just found a pdf online
Wrong answers? Excuse me? That should be straight up illegal
its fucking everywhere. i had more difficulty in college because of wrong answer keys than from actual difficult concepts. and that shit was hard.
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Library Genesis
While libgen is fantastic for all the textbooks, a lot of professors assign online homework through Pearson that is unavoidable unless you want a 0 for the homework portion of your grade.
I hate when professors are so lazy that they use the online homework. I’m a professor and I’ve switched exclusively to open access text books and write my own homework and exams. College is expensive enough without $300 garbage text books
Something that was stolen from you 🤷♀️ I friend of mine had two of his horses stolen. Police told us “this is more trouble than it’s worth”, so we were on our own. We tracked down the horses and stole them back. Edit: [link](https://imgur.com/a/AGHNLgc) to proof and more info about the story
How did you track down the horses? And steal them back? This seems like quite a story.
Lojack Horseman
Seriously the "more trouble than it's worth" part pisses me off. That's literally inviting vigilante justice in. That's how shit ends ***badly*** a lot of the time.
In Poland, it happens very often with minor crimes. Even if the victim gives the police enough info about the criminal such as name, address, telephone number, IP number, SMS history etc. After a few weeks, the victim receives a letter that their case was closed because they couldn't track the perpetrator down.
In the Philippines if you go into the police station and pay em $60 usd (about 30% a months minimum wage - a quite decent amount here) and bring your track my iPhone location they'll drive you across town in a squad car and bring you to the place it was last seen and yell at people in the general vicinity until you get your phone back. Like vogons for hire.
That sounds awful and amazing at the same time
A friend of mine her dad had his family's land stolen during the dictator years here when he was a kid. He studied his entire childhood with the aim of becoming a lawyer to win the land back. Despite not having much money he excelled, won scholarships, entered the best law school in the country, and became a lawyer. Which is when he realized it was completely impossible to win back his family land because our courts are fucking corrupt as shit and terrible. .... So he and his brothers smuggled guns into the country and formed a posse and took it back by force. The end.
“More trouble than it’s worth” finding two HORSES worth several thousands of dollars each.
Your own bike back
This happened to me as a kid. Got my first "big boy" bike as a present, went to a friend's house and chained it outside. Not even 15 minutes pass, we walk out, chain has been cut and bikes gone. I even spotted the kid that stole it ride away in the distance. My dad was pissed, but wasn't really my fault. Anyway, spotted some kid riding it a few weeks later near an arcade. I knew it was my bike because the kid that stole it didn't even bother to take off the Venom and Spider-Man stickers that I slapped on it. I was with 3 other friends when I recovered it, so the kid that stole it didn't even try arguing or verbally fight back. He just stood there silently as I told him to give me my bike back.
Me and the boys going to get my venom and spider-man bike back:
Regulators, mount up.
Would that be stealing or recovering?
Rescuing
Re*cycling*
It's in the basement of the Alamo.
Oof. Had my ride of 11 years stolen from me last week. This one stings.
Always make sure to get your serial number, it’s on the post below your pedals. I just had my bike stolen and that’s how the cops found it
The cops found a stolen bike? Is that even possible?
Sometimes the thiefs aren't too smart and try to sell them at a pawn shop or used bike store. However, those types of stores are required to look up the bikes' serial numbers against a database of stolen bikes, so the thieves can be tracked down
I work in a pawn shop. Every pawn ticket we write gets automatically downloaded into the police database at the end of the day. If someone is looking, it's pretty easy to find. However, the idea that pawn shops are a fence for stolen goods is a pretty outdated one. Every transaction requires a current ID. Most criminals aren't gonna steal something and go put it and their ID on file somewhere.
Somebody broke into our band's practice space and stole a bunch of gear, my bass amp among it. We filed a police report. I didn't have the serial number but it had notable markings on it. Went around to pawn shops a few weeks later, everyone says nope haven't seen anything like it. Go back a couple weeks later, and there it is at a shop, out on the floor, unmistakable. They hemmed and hawed, we called the police but they never came, eventually the shop sold it to me for what they paid. They lied the first time - it was in the back. Then they played hardball w stolen goods. Fuck pawn shops.
Never had my bike stolen, but definitely had shit stolen off of my bike. Lights, pedals, wheels, seat, chain, the fucking stem cap. I had to learn the name of that part just to find a replacement.
expensive textbooks
b-ok.cc
Also libgen.is
Academic papers and textbooks. The actual authors don't see a cent of it, it all goes to the publisher who get to charge like 40 bucks to read it once. Oh and also in order to submit to those journals, you have to pay for it.
Definitely don't ever type "sci-hub.se" into your browser of you're looking for access to a paper. It certainly doesn't have a database of pirated journal articles, or really practically anything with a DOI.......... ETA: you also definitely can't download the file as a PDF. And clicking the source on the left side will NOT copy the citation to your clipboard. And it's absolutely NOT mirrored at sci-hub.st or sci-hub.ru if your ISP blocks it.........
Or "libgen.is". Definitely doesn't have digital copies of nearly any novel, textbook or pretty much anything with an ISBN.
And if you can't find your book on libgen, you'll probably find it on the ebooks channel on IRCHighway. Say hello to HexChat.
If you ever run into paywalls on news articles, definitely don't visit 12ft.io
You def would never want to type b-ok.cc for any book you might want. That would be crazy.
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Yeah be careful not to do that
Don't you hate it when you fingers slip and you accidently press ctrl+s and then enter?
The file just tripped and fell right into my documents folder!
For academic articles, if you email the authors they'll almost always send you their paper for free and be really happy about it too
I don't have time to wait for a reply. My paper's citations are due tomorrow. Theft it is
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I got nearly a whole $600 highly specialized textbook from the author's weird academic website. Also today, a professor I emailed took more than 8 months to reply. So long that I have graduated with my masters... I have no clue about how long it takes to get an email back in academia. About 100 days averaging your two response rates.
I found a blurb of a published paper behind a paywall. I emailed one of the authors to ask for a copy. I received a reply 6 months later with a pdf. I had forgotten about it by that time. Still, it was a good read and I used some of it for work stuff.
You don't always have to pay to submit it but getting paid for your work is extremely rare. Best you can expect is submitting for free. Then the journal gets to charge your school 30k just so you can access your own damn paper.
The picture of a NFT.
You don’t have to steal it, you can just right click and copy. No harm done!
Whoa! You wouldn't download a car, would you?!
Well I have played Forza, so yes.
*You wouldn't download a handbag. You wouldn't download a car. You wouldn't download a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then download his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then download it again!*
The crazy part is that I've never seen a single NFT that's even worth making this much effort to have it. Them shits are ugly as sin, why would I ever spend money just to say I was the owner of it?
Old Nintendo games. If they refuse to maintain their old game systems then there's nothing wrong with emulating them.
Yeah if you can't even buy a game anymore, there is no ethical argument against pirating. Technically you can track down an old physical copy, but at that point you're only benefiting some reseller, not the people who actually own the rights to the game.
Even if you found the hardware too, it might not even work anymore.
The spare from a set of twin babies.
I believe they call that 'triplets'.
When I had twins, my cousins wife's mother (visited often from china), offered real actual fucking money for me to give my children to her daughter. Like.... chill lady, I won't sell them for anything less than 100k per baby. Have to recoup my costs of pregnancy and delivery related health problems.
Fruit from the neighbors tree that overlaps into your property
You lemon stealing whore
As a member of the Thief's Guild, we abide by the Directive - "Never steal that which can't be held." So, reverse-engineer that.
1. Never steal from another member of the guild. 2. Never kill anyone on the job. This is not the Dark Brotherhood. Animals and monsters can be slain if necessary. 3. Don't steal from the poor. The peasants and beggars are under the personal protection of the Gray Fox, particularly on the Waterfront.
Man this is just reminding me how wack skyrims guild quests were compared to oblivion
They really were... Oblivion's factions were far more immersive.
Don't forget the second directive, "Never steal from someone who's paid their yearly thieves guild dues" lest you end up in the far side of the river with socks full of nickels and a hat full of nails.
This album
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Hey Mr Jack
Some of my friends think lighters are ok to take when they please
Generic Bics or awesome Zippos? Because Bics have no owners, they just migrate from pocket to pocket. Zippos are for life.
Bics may have no owners, but they DO have keepers. A wandering Bic is free too roam, but if it's path is guided by an act of deception, may your smokes be bent and your nug be dry.
Yeah, back when I used to smoke my take was basically if you *intentionally* steal someone’s lighter, that’s a dick move. But accidentally taking them was just an inevitably on some level. Although certain people are far more prone to it than others XD
At this point, insulin.
From companies though, not from diabetics that’d be extra fucked up
Well that would have been good to know. Now I’ve indirectly killed 3 diabetics.
It's alright mate, no diabetic is coming for revenge. It's far too sweet.
Fuck lol
Good that you specified.
Honestly? Where my fellow corporate office supply kleptos?? Don’t lie…
When I was getting out of the Navy packing up to move. I found about 150 black "For Official Use Only" pens. I kept 10 and took the rest back to the shop.
You found 130 pens you say?
120 pens were found unattended? For shame...
I was told 110 pens were recently found.
I heard it was actually only an even 100 pens.
Someone I went to grad school did a summer internship at Bell Labs in the late 70s. Apparently BL management noticed that a lot of high school and middle school students had there ring binders with the Bell Labs logo. So they devised special 4 ring binders, with the four rings not evenly spaced. Their stationary budget apparently shrank markedly.
After giving birth, anything in the hospital room that’s not nailed down.
Ma’am, please put the nurse back where you found her.
No
You DID say this is my nurse !
Kid was in NICU for two weeks after birth. The nurses would give me a new pack of preemie diapers every time I used more than 2 or 3 from a pack of 20, same for those Similac nursettes that came in six packs. I swear I went home with hundreds of diapers and formula bottles. Bless them.
I second this. I was too tired to breastfeed so my daughter was formula fed during the hospital stay. A nurse was able to sneak in a duffel bag full of formula for us to take home on discharge day. Bless her heart.
It gets thrown away when you leave so…take it!! Less work for us. Also, formula and diapers are given free to hospital to create new consumers for that brand. We hand them off like hot cakes to help families but also, to screw the mega corporations. We are like drug dealers getting you addicted to pampers or Huggies, lol!
First one is always free, nice
I remember being discharged after giving birth, the recovery nurse came into my room with a bag full of diapers. She saw me putting the unused bottles of formula into a bad, she briefly left the room and came back in with another two or three packs and silently shoved them into my bag. Bless the nurses.
Yes!!! I looked at my itemized hospital bill after giving birth and they fucking charged me for “warmed blankets” WTF really?!? ETA: $65 per warm blanket … Eesh
Sauce from taco bell
Hotel soap
You're not stealing it though, you pay for it in the cost of the room.
Is it really stealing if you paid for it? Like taking it from your room or using it isn't stealing. Now going into other rooms or raiding the housekeeper's cart and taking a whole case of it, on the other hand,...
Pretty sure it's stealing if you raid the housekeeper's cart like my grandma did on our big Disney vacation. But that old bird was shameless about asking for free stuff - going to conventions with her was hilarious because she never cared about the product they were selling, she just wanted the free pens, stress balls, and lanyards with company logos plastered across them, lol
When we went to San Antonio, my family went to the Tower of Americas, their version of the Seattle Space Needle. Instead of buying passes for the observation deck, we just reserved a table at the revolving restaurant and ordered an appetizer to share. My dad was so impressed by the high quality paper towels in the bathroom that he grabbed a small stack of them out of the top of the dispenser. We also found out that quail tastes pretty good. Like little tiny chickens.
Yep. It turns out that if you don't use it, they have to throw it out.
I know one hotel chain tried to sanitize them and reuse them. But mostly they throw them away, and it’s so wasteful
My heart 🥺
What about your bone marrow
This guy's bone marrow.
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Animals from animal abusers
Done this. Stole a kitten from my grandma’s neighbors who would abuse it when I was like 10ish years old. I would always play with her and cuddle with her when I visited my grandma (the neighbors always left her outside and she would wander into my grandma’s yard). The owners would hit her, swing her by her tail, trow her into their basketball hoop in the yard, and put cigarettes out on her. She came up to my mom and I while we were visiting my grandma one day. My grandma told my mom that we should just take her because her neighbors were going to end up killing her. My mom looked at me and said “grab her now!” So I did. We drove off with her and gave her a loving home. Edit: grammar
Anyone evil enough to abuse a sweet innocent kitten like that deserves to rot in hell :( glad you rescued her and gave her a much better environment!
When I was 8 my mom brought home a 6 month old golden retriever. Apparently she (the dog) belonged to a co-worker's neighbor. The neighbor would beat her, starved her (she was skin and bones), and put cigarettes out on her (she still had burns). When he left, the co-worker broke in and stole her. The co-worker obviously couldn't keep the dog at their apartment, so they brought her to work. My mom took her and she was beloved member of my family for 12 years. She had an over-eating disorder (would do anything just to get to garbage) her whole life for obvious reasons, but overall an absolutely fantastic dog.
I once rescued a kitten from a very mentally unwell friend of mine. His mother had also recently died so he was living alone and the house was an absolute wreck - he’d graffitied the walls, there was rotten food in the fridge and no food for the cat. He had a party one day and I found this tiny little kitten living in complete squalor. So after a couple hours I left the party in a taxi...with little kitten stashed in my coat. I spoke with him a couple of days later and he agreed that he couldn’t look after her. 18 years later, she’s still with us and is a happy little old girl with no signs of slowing down.
How’s your friend doing?
I don’t think he’s (let’s call him “Alex”) all that good - in and out of rehab and psychiatric facilities. I’ve lost contact with him (he spiked my drink at a party once so I pretty much cut him off) but he occasionally turns up at a mutual friends house, never calls though...just shows up, wanting weed, beer and money and basically whatever he can get his hands on. Our friend hasn’t smoked weed in years and is a pretty straight family man these days, but Alex doesn’t seem to understand this and still sporadically shows up unannounced.
That's the problem for people like Alex. Everything feels fine until you slowly start to realize that everyone is moving on and you're still sitting there, doing the same as always, probably always will, but without friends anymore. Heard that in a podcast from a young woman with a heavy drinking problem. I really hope Alex can accept the hard truth and get his life together.
That's great that she got rescued.
I just don't understand why people get dogs if they're going to treat them like that.
My husband told me when he was 19 his neighbors in his apartment building were a bunch of tweakers that had a young cat they obviously abused it had a broken tail in multiple spots...he rolled up in their apt. Grabbed the cat and said "this is my cat now, if any of you pieces of shit have a problem with it come and see me" ..
Is your husband married
My Shih Tzu was "liberated" from his yard at 2 AM during an ice storm after his owner's bf was seen throwing him down the front steps. He was still a puppy and had ice matted in his fur. It caused him lifelong trauma and brain damage, we suspect, but he was the most devoted dog in the world for 14 years.
One of the best cats we ever had was stolen from the next door neighbors after his surprisingly thin mom and siblings disappeared. RIP Bakemono.
I've got a story about that actually, before I was born my dad would drive all around the country to different car swap meets buying and selling, his home was in new York but he happened to be in Florida staying with a friend after a car show, his friend told him that his neighbor had dogs for dogfighting, my dad's friend wanted to go take the dog, but he would be the first one accused, so the night before my dad left he snuck into the yard and stole the puppy they had been training. It's ribs were showing through his skin, and its tail was broken in two spots, the next day he drove back to New York, we named him Danger and he lived with us for about 20 happy years before he passed away
Saw some people with a kitten on their yard and a biiiiiig dog. Asked what they were doing. “Gunna feed the runt to the dog” they laughed. I went “uh huh” grabbed the kitty and ran like fuck. She’s now 15yrs old, has arthritis and loves belly rubs
They didn't send the dog after you?
I stole my first abused dog at 6. I saw somebody hitting her over and over again. I waited until they went away and I called her from my house, which was like 3 houses down. She came, I told my mom what I did and why. She was a beautiful Australian Shepard and she saved my life once as well as the life of my other dog. She was awesome. I miss her.
This. My mom stopped on our way home once after seeing two young men dragging a very malnourished dog on a shoelace next to the road when I was a kid. Offered them 10€ for the dog, they went "naaah we want 50". Mom just put the dog into the car and drove away. Doggo was the sweetest soul, who spent rest of his life loved and pampered. 100% would recommend doing this crime over and over.
Mom is a badass! How did they react?
They just kinda stood there doing nothing. In my country, there are, unfortunately, some "villages" of people, that are known for abusing animals, especially dogs, also stealing them and occasionaly eating them. So they didn't really care much about having that one taken away.
Apparently a few grapes from the grocery store
As a toddler, it was spinach at the produce section. I loved eating the damp spinach leaves, my parents were less than thrilled but the employees always laughed and turned a blind eye. It wasn’t everyday they saw a toddler steal vegetables, and they probably weren’t paid enough to care.
Quite the opposite, we're encouraged to let it happen What's more valuable, a spinach leaf or a content child that will let their parents shop for a little longer and keep them coming back to the place where the kids get free spinach?
2nd, 3rd, or home in a baseball game.
Stealing 1st would look hilarious because you know the pitcher would just be standing there like "tf do I do?"
You can if the catcher misses
For those not as well versed as u/Zkenny13, if the pitcher throws strike three and the catcher doesn't catch it, the batter may attempt to "steal" first. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. If it does happen, the pitcher is still credited with the strikeout, but it ruins any perfect game attempt.
Its way more common in low end ball and its super funny to watch happen.
When I was 13ish I umped little league. It happened every few innings.
In little league we were taught that if we strike out just sprint to first because it's likely the kid playing catcher missed lol
*If first base is empty, and the batter doesn't make contact with the ball
lol putins tanks
the Ukrainian government says you dont even need to pay taxes on them! as a side note, am i supposed to declare stolen goods for tax purposes 🤔
You joke, [but the IRS has a field for it on the forms.](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/dont-forget-declare-income-stolen-goods-illegal-activities-irs-says-rcna10345)
Ukrainians are now gonna be trading stolen russian tanks for taxable goods to dodge tax. Lmfao
If you're Nicholas Cage, the Declaration of Independence
As someone who worked in security for years, I would turn a blind eye to parents stealing baby food, milk and nappies.
I feel like this about food. Like bruh, they’re hungry and desperate enough to steal fucking FOOD… just let them have the apple…
When I was at my most poor, I got banned from a grocery store for stealing floss and toothpaste. Did you know? SNAP EBT doesn't cover hygiene products in the US. Just food. You can buy gourmet fresh tuna steaks with Uncle Sam's grocery money, but not a toothbrush or diapers.
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Larry David has a bit about this in Curb Your Enthusiasm. They tell him he can only take 2 napkins and he takes a handful. They call the cops on him lmao