Now That's Just Ghetto

[MouseKilla]

Now I can respect a good thief, like the guys who steal expensive art or jewels, competent bank robbers that score millions then bugger off to South America. What I have no respect for is thieves who think small, people who just lack ambition.

There have been a several threads on this site regarding stolen animals, sometimes these have been valuable collections and sometimes it's been a $200 boa constrictor or funnier still an adult iguana which would take considerable effort to adopt out.

I have recently been the victim of this brand of sad thief of the lowest calibre. This is just my tedious way of complaining that some fuggin loser stole my blue box! lol! Who the hell steals a recycling bin and why? Is there a black market for them that I don't know about?

I propose a new section of the criminal code dealing with theft under $20. This should automatically be accompanied by a second new type of charge for aggravated criminal stupidity which would carry a penalty of either voluntary chemical castration or euthanization, perpetrator's choice.

Now what the hell am I supposed to do with all these pop cans?

[m1k3_88]

LOL! thats happened to me too, i thought it was pretty funny, but my mom didnt:p

[daver676]

OMG LOL!! Sorry for laughing man, but that is just sad. In my last apartment, some shmuck (or shmucks) kept steeling my garbage can! I'd put the garbage out on Monday night, see the can sitting on the curb when I left in the morning, but alas! It would have disappeared by the time I got home. It's a good thing they were at my landlord's expense. I lived there for about a year, and went through 8, yes 8 garbage cans. What the hell? I'll support your proposed punishment Mousekilla. The gene pool needs a good chlorinating!!

[justinO]

HEY.. ours was stolen two months ago... stoopid humans.

[MouseKilla]

Kinda throwing around the word "humans" aren't you? lol!

[marisa]

Dude we feel your pain over here at my house. We live on a well used route home for the High Schoolers and our blue box has been stolen twice, and broken many times.

I went to the school which said they could do nothing off school property, the cops claim they will come by more often but dont....so after a full winter of me watching between 2-3 pm last year (the time they walk by) and threatening an *** kicking to anyone who was doing anything, we haven't had problems since. They realized its hard to vandalize our house, or steal from us if they had broken fingers.

Seems people, kids, humans in general will steal anything that isn't nailed down.

Marisa

[sleddergirl]

The kids in our neighbourhood will take the blue boxes and use them as skateboard jumps.............:mad: They never use their parents, oh no............only other peoples...

[Matt_K]

now let's have a show of hands, everyone who has stolen Christmas Lights in the winter.. If you say no, i think you're lying.. LOL..

[MouseKilla]

Ok, ok... I'm remembering my teenage years... Goddammit I probably had this coming... a flood of cloudy, disorganized memories rushing back to me now...

Travelling back to a time when Hallowe'en no longer meant candy, too big and ugly for trick or treating, it came to mean eating a bunch of acid and roaming the neighborhood, breaking and stealing things gratuitously... I kicked innocent pumpkins, threw eggs, stole random toys and Hallowe'en decorations, peed on car doors.

I remember one year we went out and ended up spending most of the night taking shopping carts from the front of a plaza, riding them and crashing them into eachother until we got to the back of the plaza. From there we ran them over the guardrail seperating the parkinglot from a steep drop into the woods. The carts would tumble and clatter down the hill to a chorus of giddy, insane laughter that made your face hurt. This went on for hours, each cart funnier than the last. My teeth still gnash together remembering those cold, drug fuelled rampages.

Damn it, it's hard to be mad now that I have been reminded of my own history of pointless, petty crime. Guess it's all part of growing up but I still have nowhere to put my empty pop cans! lol!

[Sunrunner]

why would you steal someones Christmas lights?

[Matt_K]

I think we all did stuff like that growing up, but i can HONESTLY say that i have NEVER stolen a recycling bin.. That is just ridiculous.. I'm not sure why someone would steal that.. By the way, pumpkins left out after 10 on Halloween, are fair game.. And once the first egg leaves your hand, there's no turning back you have to empty the carton..

We have a pretty fancy Inn down the street from me and we used to go there nightly and rummage for things.. We always left with a few bottles of Vodka. And every Devil's Night a friend that worked in the kitchen would bring us a box of eggs.. A box consisted of 12 flats of 24..

Just toss the pop cans in a clear garbage bag, they'll get picked up.. Either that, or steal your neighbours bin.. LMAO

Kim: Have you ever thrown one against the ground??

[ChokeOnSmoke]

You can't even buy eggs in Thunder Bay on gate night or halloween unless you have ID. How ridiculous is that?

[marisa]

It's not ridiculous. Anything worth getting is more fun getting "illegally" and that includes eggs. Personally I would like to think I enjoy that so my house wouldn't get egged, but I also like that rule because it means only the smarter kids get to do the damage. Not just some buffoon who could grab eggs at the local store and simply throw his arm and consider himself a "rebel" No nonono! That's no fun.

Marisa

[ICULIZARD]

Too funny!! Thanks for the laugh....I guess most people (not me though!) have done something like that when they were kids.

My husband did the: stealing the christmas lights thing....wasn't too smart though:
He and his friends went to all his neighbours homes and stole every single christmas lights on the street....forgot to "steal" his own. Police came and wanted to know how his house had excaped the wrath of the christmas light bandit!

ICULIZARD

[JonD]

Around here, recycle bins AKA "blue boxes disappear quite fast. People are too lazy drive over and get them free at the Public Works, so they just take em...I;ve had to replace the boxes a few times....:mad:

[BWSmith]

What a coincidence, we just had a huge shipment of used ones smuggled into the U.S. :D

[drewlowe]

ahh, the good ole days...TPing, soaping, eggs, and stealing the road block on main street just to piss of the cops(i came from a small town, what can i say). Oh and those wonderful late night paintball fights through the streets at 3 in the moning.

[xtgrovex]

what the hell? ive never stolen christmas lights lol. I am in my teenage years. Y a lol drewlowe that stuff is fun. That makes me laugh ppl stealin garbage cans. I mean does that give them an adreneline rush??

[bubba]

People in Arizona don't steal our garbage cans. They just run into them with their cars and send s**t flying. It's a real pain cleaning up the mess. I was thinking about filling one with concrete just to see what would happen. Probably get arrested for creating a public hazard. Hey, I had a pair of fuzzy dice stolen from my car mirror. Now that's just pathetic. (Hey, they were a gift!)

[JonD]

Originally posted by bubba
People in Arizona don't steal our garbage cans. They just run into them with their cars and send s**t flying. It's a real pain cleaning up the mess. I was thinking about filling one with concrete just to see what would happen. Probably get arrested for creating a public hazard. Just put the concrete one in front of the neighbours house. :D

[C.m.pyrrhus]

I was thinking about filling one with concrete just to see what would happen.

Actually, I watched on TV a while back how an older man had done this.......

Some punks (young kids) were smashing his mailbox and smashing his garbage can with their car a few times a month. He had taken some video of it after a few times and getting so pi$$ed about it, but I believe got nowhere with it. So he gets this idear.

He redoes his mailbox, again, but this time made the support beam with solid steel pole, and concealed that to make it look as if the whole thing were made from wood. He then also takes his garbage can a filled it a good will cement. That is one heavy thing to contend with.

So here come the youngins later on a few days...:) This time he had video taped it as well. Just watching the kids smashing the mailbox was great. Bet it hurt like hell. Then here comes this car to plow through the garbage can...and WHAM!!! Car comes to a sudden stop. Kids hitting the windshield...dismay everywhere. If I can remember, a few kids had bailed out of the car while limping to get away...LMAO. Just to see the look on their faces as they hit the can would have been priceless....

It turns out it had been a few groups of kids, as I remember a few cars coming around trying to destroy his property ever so often. The whole problem came to an end. Smart ol' man he was. I do think he got in a bit of trouble for that though.

[C.m.pyrrhus]

what the hell? ive never stolen christmas lights lol. I am in my teenage years.

Never? You missed out...

Between the years of the 4th and 6th grade, my friends,brother and I would make a trip to the town Christmas tree one night. This was years ago when I lived in Colorado.

The tree was on the property of the town bank on a corner downtown. There was a small 3 foot brick wall running around the bank along the sidewalk. We would all take as many of the lights as we could reach, and place them in a small container. We would hide behind the wall and toss lights out at traffic and people walking out at night. Some people would walk by, then would come...BOOM BOOM BANG CRASH BOOM BANG.....startled the hell out of them. Cars were the funnest though. I remember we took a bunch of these lights on one of the buildings roofs nearby and threw them down at cars one year...LMAO... Folks would brake hard..jump out and look everywhere for us and scream like mad. We had the greatest time of the winter laughing our asses off like crazy.

[Cruciform]

When I was a kid we just blew stuff up.

Those were the good old days.

And we painted our house number on the blue box and no one touched it :)

[WRX]

haha.. so did we! My brother and I blew apart more than our share pf park benches, made a mortar out of a car jack and spent CO2 cartridges filled with match heads.

Damn that was fun!:cool:

BT

[TheRedDragon]

Oh man, that's so lame. Maybe there's someone out there that's building a fort out of blue boxes. *L*