I Was Burgled Today

You turn your back a lot. Did you catch them?

My wife and I were cheering for you. "Go get 'em!!"

My buddy Dan used to work at a gameshop and chased down some guy into the parking lot that swiped some stuff. Caught up to him and beat him up a little bit. Gets back to the store and his boss congratulates him but doesn't give him anything else other than recognition. So he swipes a ton of SW:CCG packs before heading home that night.

What kind of store was that anyway? Was that a pornography store? Were you selling pornography?

Didn't catch him. This guy was lightening fast. He was arkund the end of the building by the time I even got to the door. The reason I tudned my back so much is because I was lookjng for an nba2k14 disc that was nowhere to be found.

This is why you should never let anyone into your shop.

So would you recognize him if he came back in?

Technically, you were robbed. Burglery is when they illegally enter for the purpose of theft.

Sorry, man. He probably just saw what a newb you were and decided to newb up a norbie newb newb norbleburp.

Bull Nakano wrote: You turn your back a lot.

Yeah, he needed some kind of swiveling surprise chair.

He probably just got tired of waiting.

Seriously, though, why did the transaction take so long? NOT KNOWING ANY OTHER DETAILS THAN WHAT I SAW IN THE VIDEO, if I just wanted to buy a game and the clerk kept on turning away and making phone calls, I would have walked out.

Not with the game, though.

Was he asking you for something else, causing you to have to call a different store to check on it? That's what it looks like it could have been.

You know, from the look of it, that was totally spur of the moment...I bet the guy actually was going to buy the game...but he saw an opportunity and took it. Pretty bold, but those are the kinds of thieves that are the hardest to catch...the ones that are really bold like that.

I used to run with some guys in high school that were big time shoplifters...these dudes were crazy, it actually made me nervous to go to the mall with them. Except for the fact that they'd come out of B. Dalton with like every D&D book on the shelf and they'd just give them to me. They wore overcoats with these pockets sewn into them, they'd justload 'em up. One time, one of the guys asked to see this handheld TV (remember those?) at Macy's and literally just walked out of the store with it, not batting an eye. But they were bold like this guy, never got caught. They'd always look for employees not paying attention and just walk out. Didn't even run.

I only shoplifted three times, in case you were wondering. One time was Falcon 3.0, which was just nuts. Another was when I boosted those terrible Sleeping Beauty books Anne Rice wrote, a girl I liked wanted them and, well, they're full of sex. The third time I got busted stuffing a Ministry tape into my pants. The lady got the janitor of the shopping center to "arrest" me and he wrote my name down.

I stole some Certs from a 7-11 when I was in Grade 3 and got busted by the shopkeep. Somehow my mom found out (this was when I lived in 'Peg) and she said the cop cars that were driving around the neighbourhood were looking for me.

i didn't steal again. heck, i even buy my music on iTunes and my movies on Xbox Video.

Never nicked anything from any store.

When I was still a kid I used to buy the Micky Mouse magazine every week from the local village store. It cost something like 2.30 DM and I only received 1.50 DM allowance/week, so I always had to plan how to expend my birthday and Christmas money over the whole year. Despite all that strategic plotting I remember I was short 0.12 DM on the magazine once. But the store clerk gave it to me anyway. Luckiest day of my life!

Wait, no. The luckiest day of my life was when I found 50 DM bill in front of the same store once, which was like a huge fortune for me at the time; I think I was 8 years old or so. I actually had my guess as to who dropped the money in front of the store; namely the village drunk, whom I saw leaving the store a few minutes earlier. So I asked my mum if I should go and bring back the money to him, but she replied that he is an alcoholic anyway and probably already forgot losing the money and that I should just keep it. In hindsight she probably didn't want me going to his house. I then went to the store again and bought a chocolate bar, a ping pong bat and that week's Micky Mouse magazine.

Black Barney wrote: I stole some Certs from a 7-11 when I was in Grade 3 and got busted by the shopkeep. Somehow my mom found out (this was when I lived in 'Peg) and she said the cop cars that were driving around the neighbourhood were looking for me.

i didn't steal again. heck, i even buy my music on iTunes and my movies on Xbox Video.

I have a similar story, but even younger. I pocketed some lead weight thing from a fishing tackle store when I was probably 4 or 5. It was the kind of thing that I had no use for but liked for some reason, and it probably cost about a dime. When we got to the car, my dad saw me playing with it. He marched me back into the store, made me confess, apologize, and return it to the clerk. It was humiliating, and effective.

Back to the original topic, I agree that he just got tired of waiting so long.

hey, if the guy had decided to shoot Cloudy in the back, would our reasoning be because he got tired of waiting so long? Cuz that's what I'm putting in the Get Better Soon card for Cloudy as he recovers from his near-miss. "Hang in there, towel-man. I hate that this happened to you but after seeing the security footage, you did make him wait a long time. Just saying. Signed, typical gamer"

Around 6th - 7th grade, on occasion I would wake up really early to deliver papers and afterwards bike down to the Price Chopper on Rte 50 (a road I wasn't allowed to bike on). I would play a couple game of Donkey Kong and then go to the magazine rack and stuff a bunch into my parka. The mags were mostly Cracked, Crazy, and C64 programming magazines. I was confronted one day; fortunately, they just scared me from coming back and didn't tell my folks, else that would've been a painful beating.

In high school, I worked at a supermarket deli/meat counter and fed myself freshly sliced cold-cuts all the time. Until you've had cold cuts fresh off the slicer, don't judge me, bro.

One college summer, I worked as an overnight stocker at K-mart and lifted pencil puzzle magazines occasionally. By the end of summer, they were doing employee bag inspections but I stopped by then.

I'm now a perfectly upstanding citizen. Funny how not being broke will change you like that...