• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉
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    1 day ago

    stealing food is a high risk low reward, you might be lucky to get away with a few snacks in your pocket.

    struggling desperate people aim for more expensive items that can be sold. Bluetooth headphones, smartphones…

    so if you see someone stealing from a shop, you saw nothing.

    chances are the boss is the biggest thief in that shop

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      1 day ago

      stealing food is a high risk low reward, you might be lucky to get away with a few snacks in your pocket.

      struggling desperate people aim for more expensive items that can be sold. Bluetooth headphones, smartphones…

      True, but the risk of stealing food is often lower than the risk of stealing more expensive items, as more expensive items are often better secured and better covered by surveillance.

      Just remember to steal smartly.

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        20 hours ago

        they started filming everyone to try to get them to stop buying so many damn bananas. it didn’t work.

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        23 hours ago

        Maybe. Some places like Walmart won’t stop you the first few times regardless of what you take. They have a history of waiting until they can prove it’s a pattern and get you with federal charges

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          22 hours ago

          *felony charges, not federal.

          It would only become federal charges if you’re doing something that brings it into federal jurisdiction, such as somehow conspiring across state lines to steal from walmart, or stealing from a walmart that’s located in DC or on an indian reservation.

          And it’s Target that’s infamous for waiting and watching while they build up enough total thefts on your record to amount to felony theft charges. Though I certainly wouldn’t put it past other stores to do that. They don’t always do that, though, so you can’t count on being safe as long as you keep it under your state’s felony theft limit.

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            20 hours ago

            huh. i bet if you plan hard enough around statutes of limitations