Who in the world steals that?

[bluewraith]

Coming home from work I noticed that my internet was out. Restarting the router, etc didn't fix it. Meh.. I'll just wait a while and go watch some TV. Hmm... TV is out too... odd. Give it an hour or so to do its thing and try again.. no dice. Call Comcast up and they "are aware of an outage in my area, and a tech has been sent out". Well, that's all fine and dandy, aside from my neighbor still having full service.

Around 11pm, I decide to go out back and check the cable, see if its packed with ice or something.. and my 2 way splitter is gone. O.o

Seriously? Who steals a cable splitter? Good thing I have a small box of them that I acquired from my hotel stays.




.... oh wait..

 

[BGDave]

Used to have trouble at work with guys ripping off my flashlight (issued free to anyone). I wrote on the new one with big black marker "FREE TAKE ME". Never lost another one. Took the thrill away, I guess.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

Some people, given the chance, will steal anything that isn't bolted down. And if it is, they'll try. When I was still working for Kroger, we had someone at a store that was stealing Land o Lakes unsalted butter, 4 sticks at a time. We'd find the packages all over the store. Never caught the person, and not sure if we'd have wanted to. Seriously, who steals butter?

 

[Dolton916]

I like butter

 

[Classic]

Someone took the cover off my electric meter. Still trying to figure that one out.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

I like butter

I don't suppose you spent a lot of time near Thompson and Emerson in Indy, say 2 years ago?

 

[findingZzero]

Someone took the cover off my electric meter. Still trying to figure that one out.

That would be me. They work perfectly as candy dishes.

 

[87iroc]

I had a friend in college that used to steal bathroom keys at gas stations. He'd return the key ring, pole, brick, whatever they had tied to it...but take the key.

Still funny....

Even funnier...he's a police officer now.

 

[BGDave]

I had a friend in college that used to steal bathroom keys at gas stations. He'd return the key ring, pole, brick, whatever they had tied to it...but take the key.

Still funny....

Even funnier...he's a police officer now.

That's just so wrong.

 

[Mgderf]

When I worked at the Triple XXX outside Purdue campus it would be the same thing every year.
Each spring, when the new semester started we would start losing condiment containers, and silverware.

We would lose 15-20 sets of glass salt and pepper shakers (full of course), glass sugar dispensers, and uncountable amount of silverware.

The funny thing was that we would get about half of the salt and pepper shakers and the sugar dispensers back at the end of the year!
They would just show back up one morning after a football game, empty, and dirty of course.

 

[nascarfantoo]

When I worked at the Triple XXX outside Purdue campus it would be the same thing every year.
Each spring, when the new semester started we would start losing condiment containers, and silverware.

We would lose 15-20 sets of glass salt and pepper shakers (full of course), glass sugar dispensers, and uncountable amount of silverware.

The funny thing was that we would get about half of the salt and pepper shakers and the sugar dispensers back at the end of the year!
They would just show back up one morning after a football game, empty, and dirty of course.

Education is so expensive no days we must not be able to afford $5 worth of condiments.

 

[other dave]

Some people, given the chance, will steal anything that isn't bolted down. And if it is, they'll try. When I was still working for Kroger, we had someone at a store that was stealing Land o Lakes unsalted butter, 4 sticks at a time. We'd find the packages all over the store. Never caught the person, and not sure if we'd have wanted to. Seriously, who steals butter?

And unsalted butter at that. Sounds kinda kinky....

 

[Sgtusmc]

Was it a newer high bandwidth splitter or an older 600-800mhz splitter? Make sure you get a high bandwidth splitter or you're just capping your speed. The cable company doesn't tell people this since it's not in their best interest.

 

[printcraft]

Some people, given the chance, will steal anything that isn't bolted down. And if it is, they'll try. When I was still working for Kroger, we had someone at a store that was stealing Land o Lakes unsalted butter, 4 sticks at a time. We'd find the packages all over the store. Never caught the person, and not sure if we'd have wanted to. Seriously, who steals butter?

I can't believe they were never caught.

 

[boogieman]

my guess would be a neighbor had one go out and took yours instead of buying a new one

 

[CathyInBlue]

The house I'm day dreaming of buying to rehab was gutted of its copper plumbing, electrical conduit, and ductwork. While I'm now reasonably certain it was the previous legitimate residents who did the deed, I'm still paranoid about what will I do once I have a new A/C condenser sitting on its new concrete pad and visible from the street. I'm thinking make the pad about 6" thick and full of rebar with big, honkin' threaded rod sticking up, bolting (nutting?) down an angry looking steel cage to prevent its future theft. Not sure what to do about plastic utility boxes. Those things would still succumb to a sledgehammer blow, even if you welded wire rope around their security ties.

 

[Rehab]

Someone stole my Christmas decorations a few years back.

 

[findingZzero]

Nobody loves me but my mama, (but she could be jivin' too.....)


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[femurphy77]

The house I'm day dreaming of buying to rehab was gutted of its copper plumbing, electrical conduit, and ductwork. While I'm now reasonably certain it was the previous legitimate residents who did the deed, I'm still paranoid about what will I do once I have a new A/C condenser sitting on its new concrete pad and visible from the street. I'm thinking make the pad about 6" thick and full of rebar with big, honkin' threaded rod sticking up, bolting (nutting?) down an angry looking steel cage to prevent its future theft. Not sure what to do about plastic utility boxes. Those things would still succumb to a sledgehammer blow, even if you welded wire rope around their security ties.

Mount it on the roof. Pretty common for the very reason you speak of. I've seen where they were bolted down to a formidable slab and the thieves destroyed it when they realized they couldn't steal it.

 

[femurphy77]

When I worked at the Triple XXX outside Purdue campus it would be the same thing every year.
Each spring, when the new semester started we would start losing condiment containers, and silverware.

We would lose 15-20 sets of glass salt and pepper shakers (full of course), glass sugar dispensers, and uncountable amount of silverware.

The funny thing was that we would get about half of the salt and pepper shakers and the sugar dispensers back at the end of the year!
They would just show back up one morning after a football game, empty, and dirty of course.

The senior prank when my oldest graduated high school was similar. Throughout the year the kids pocketed all of the silverware. By the end of the year they were using plastic "silverware". At graduation as the principal handed each student their diploma each student handed him a handful of silverware!