pavlovscat on 3/3/2008 at 00:13
I wasn't going to post this, but I was the sneaksie type. I had to spoiler this just in case Pavlovscats Mom is reading. :eek:
Mom...really don't read this!!! You don't wanna know! :laff:
I went quietly out my bedroom window many times leaving a pillow decoy. I was very good at sneaking in or out. I prefered the quieter side door off the kitchen, but, on those really late mornings when my dad was already awake, I could unlock & open the front door, get into my room, undress and get in bed with my dad in the kitchen having breakfast and none the wiser. I could walk silently and open the creakiest door with barely a noise. Thankfully, it was a slab house so the floors never creaked.
I was such a bad teenager. :ebil:
piano-sam on 3/3/2008 at 07:24
Quote Posted by nickie
On the other hand . . . if there's something I should do to make them work, then I'll happily nick them back! Alternatively, I could ask the client concerned - I know she'd think it was in a good cause and probably beg me to nick them all.
Could it be they just need firmware? Most companies put that stuff out online nowadays, so it could be if you just grabbed some, and went to the manufacturer's site armed with serial numbers, you could have them up and working after a bit of installing.
nickie on 3/3/2008 at 07:38
Thanks for the info. I didn't know. They don't seem to have serial numbers so really are probably just demos. But as I'm not really a tea-leaf, I'm going to ask the client today.
Molock on 3/3/2008 at 15:35
I always sneak around in my house to suddenly appear in front of my totally frightened family members for fun. :p (Well, its fun for ME)
Strangely that also happens a lot of times when I walk normally, somehow I always manage to sneak without intention to fright people with my sudden appear, although I am not a small or skinny guy at all who is hard to see.
I think the thief-ness runs in my blood. :cheeky:
yubetcha on 3/3/2008 at 16:12
I don't know if this is true, but I read an item on the net that said that Bill Gates was trying to patent the binary 0s and 1s. This was a few years ago. If he succeeded, I guess that we would all be thieves by now :) . Did anyone else hear or read that? I am sure that it is probably false, but some people would probably try something like that. But then again, everything we read on the net is true, right? LOL!
shadowseeker777 on 4/3/2008 at 07:27
always was a fan of the roadrunner when I was a kid. beep-beep-zip-zoom!
me and the fam were doing a saturday visit to the mall when I came across a toy store that had glass display cases with loads of plastic looney toon characters for cheap prices. I wasn't too clear on what cheap or expensive was back in those days, mind you, so the thought of asking my mom to buy such an inexpensive item didn't enter my thoughts. all I knew was that they had the roadrunner and he was small and non-breakable. so, the choice was clear in my mind. so, I swiped him. I even vaguely remember mall security being nearby at the time, but he didn't seem to be paying much attention. so, I seemed to get away with it, but as with most new thieves, my pride came quickly before my fall. or more specifically, my big mouth - as I showed it to my sister who innocently thought I bought it with my own money and got my parents' attention. well, long story short, I got busted. the roadrunner got placed on the top of the tallest cabinet in the house and I got booted to my room.
to this day, I still have no idea what the ultimate fate was of the roadrunner.
shadowseeker777 on 4/3/2008 at 07:55
why not another one, just to reminisce some more...
this was years after the roadrunner incident, sometime in middle school. those were the shady years wedged between the innocent elementary and the grown-up high school. and there was a guy I knew that was the typical bad seed 'tough guy' that everyone despised but secretely wanted to be at the same time. and I'm sure he was aware of these feelings as he'd occassionally throw nerds like me a bone and walk home with you as he smokes a camel he bummed off his dad. watching how cool he was and quickly realizing that there was only a few blocks left before my house, I had to pull off an equally cool move to let him know I deserve to hang with him. anyways, in the dorkiest manner possible - thinking about it now - I run up to a street sign, jump up and smack it with an open hand.
yeah, very cool!
but apparently the sign was loose, so this green street sign - the kind with the two green rectangles attached to form a cross of sorts - spins like a fan. this makes me feel a little lame, so in a panic I jump up again and swipe the street sign from the post with ease and stuff it in my shirt. I use stuff loosely of course as anyone can imagine that these signs are large bulky and oddly shaped - not exactly concealable. that doesn't stop me though, because I'm on a roll here, so I just sprint off with the thing - leaving the cool guy behind me. so, here I am, a middle schooler, sprinting down the sidewalk with cars zooming past me - with a green street sign pressed awkwardly against my chest.
somehow, no one stops me, and I get to my room with no real trouble. I can't remember what I ever did with the sign, but I never got in serious trouble or anything. Looking back, I feel glad that I never got caught because stealing a street sign has to come with some hefty fine. But I do remember it took them a couple of days to replace the sign - and this time it was screwed on tight.
P.S. the cool guy never talked to me again.
nickie on 4/3/2008 at 19:34
:laff: :laff:
This is, of course, on a par with the obligatory stealing of bollards by UK students. As a mature student, I naturally never went in for this kind of prank. But I knew a helluva lot of student accommodation which always seemed to have one to fall over. :D
nicked on 6/3/2008 at 13:04
A friend of mine has a photo of himself and some friends surrounded by stolen traffic cones, a bollard, a street sign, a tyre and someone's front door. I didn't ask too many questions...
