To the person who stole seventeen dollars from my change purse, at a coffee place in the University Student Union Building around 7pm on Friday December 2. I left the “dining room” area to take a phone call, while sitting just outside the area on a couch the coffee place closed. I didn’t have my jacket and the gate to the area was pulled closed. I told the maintenance man cleaning the floors inside that I left my jacket on the back of a chair. He looked and it wasn’t there so he asked the people working. A woman working said that “one of the other workers” had found it and gave it to the front desk in the SUB. I collected my jacket a minute later, reached into my pockets to double check that my student ID, debit card and change purse were still there. I said thanks and left. It wasn’t until Saturday morning when I went to use my money that I noticed it was gone, you took my 10 dollar bill, my 5 dollar bill and even my toonie, you left my three nickels though. Thanks asshole. That was all the money I had to last me the next few days. I guess I should be happy that you didn’t steal my jacket and maybe you needed the money more than me but it’s doubtful. I hope karma finds you. —Poor, Hungry and Pissed Off Student
This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2011.
OB, you’re not a bright one, are you?
It’s your own fault for leaving MONEY in your jacket and then walking away from it – even for something as simple and quick as a phone call.
You’re just fortunate that the thief didn’t take everything, walk away with it, then toss it in a dumpster somewhere leaving you with absolutely nothing, except the replacement costs of a jacket, a student ID and a change purse, which are all definitely more than $17 dollars.
Also, since you’re on such a shoe-string budget and $17 will absolutely break you, I’ll seriously give you $50 if you promise not to leave it in your jacket pocket again.
What are you doing leaving your purse unattended. One would think in this day and age and for hundreds of years in the past, that you don’t leave things unattended or unsecure.
You’re going to be treated to the same message in varying tones of empathy, so I’ll just say:
Never let your valuables out of your sight in public. You have to be lucky all the time; the predators only have to get lucky once.
Karma is going to do fuck all for you sweetheart.
Lol next post titled “why me dumb”?
OP I can only imagine the trouble you get into at airports..
People steal. It sucks but it’s a reality. Don’t leave stuff lying around unattended or someone is likely going to steal it.
Lesson learned? Lesson learned. You’re lucky it only cost you $17 to learn it.
Yeah, I know OB should’ve kept an eye on their shit, but it still sucks when someone steals your shit.
Someone stole my can of diet pepsi out of the staff fridge last week. The one I had chilled in the freezer, no less, all frosty waiting for me for lunch time.
Seriously though — who does that? My iPhone got returned, yet someone stole my can of diet pepsi? Someone with access to the STAFF fridge, at that. 🙁
Now I have to write all over my cans and be all “STEALING IS WRONG SO DON’T DO IT” and “STOP STEALING MY DIET PEPSI BECAUSE I WILL FIND YOU, YOU DIRTY THIEF!” because you don’t fuck with my beverages.
While chopping off a hand for theft, may be too harsh a punishment.
What about if we only break a couple of bones ? Save the hand removal for say a 3rd offense ~;p
As for the karma thing…do I have to repost Karma & Karmuns photo again ?
They still don’t give a damn.
http://www.holytaco.com/25-passive-aggress…
here more, i found some others http://www.funpeak.com/funnypics/two-big-d…
It seriously sucks that asswipes lacking a moral code exist and feel the need to take things that don’t belong to them … so, I do sympathize with you OB. Particularly since you’re obviously on a tight budget and that sucks even more. But, ditto what the others are saying … don’t leave your shit unattended. Naivety on your part leads to a life lesson learned.
PK … if it continues, I’d be tempted to leave a teaser can coated with something on the outside that would mark and clearly identify the thief (although I don’t really know what that would be). After being busted, I’m sure the resulting embarrassment would teach them not to fuck with your diet Pepsi.
Bla bla cut off hand, third offence sexually mutilate haha me like hurt bad man, me smart like good. God good ,me good, love god good, next me give juice box, kids all die haha. Everyone listen to me, I big and strong.
hey, ya got most of your stuff back…
17 bucks for that mistake is getting off pretty easy.
http://assets.scumbagsteve.com/hashed_silo…
Consider if the cost of transporting the jacket to the SUB’s front desk. You didn’t expect them to not take their “reward”?
I call bullshit on the bitch replies.
It’s not OB’s fault someone stole her money, she did nothing wrong. You know ‘wrong’ in the moral sense. Remember morals. Where does the attitude that if you leave your belongs unattended for a few moments it’s your fault if someone steals them come from. If the thief is reading this he’s probably thinking “That’s right, it was her fault.”.
Yeah, it’s not the stealing that pisses you people off it’s the OB answering her phone. Christ, what is the world coming to.
BPS, you’re 100% correct that it’s not the OB’s fault that someone stole her money, but it is 100% the OB’s fault for leaving their jacket containing money unattended thus giving someone with low morals the opportunity to pilfer her of $17, which will now cause bankruptcy.
Odds are, if the opportunity wasn’t there in an unattended jacket, then the money would not have been stolen in the first place.
It’s not like she couldn’t have done something with her jacket when she stepped away – like say, wearing it – it is a jacket after all.
The lesson here is simple: If you choose to leave your stuff laying around in public – be it a jacket, a backpack, your pants, whatever – then you’re taking a chance that someone is going to see what goodies you may have left in the pockets.
It truly sucks that people are shady, sketchy bastards, but this “crime”, could have easily been prevented by simply removing the opportunity in the first place.
Sorry dear, its not attitude, its reality. The world is not what your mommy told you, she lied because she didn’t want to answer the hard questions. Like how they would tell you santa will not come if you are bad, do not blame society for your parents lies.
The world is a hard place and is not gonna conform to your will. Not one person here has proclaimed the thief a national hero, but when im shopping I do not leave my smart phone laying in my cart while I run to another isle, and just rely on humanity and their good will.
Sorry OP, that totally sucks! 🙁
most people would happily pay $17 to get their ID and debit card back.
OP suck it up, you pussy.
Eh, stealing something from someone is still wrong.
No one’s saying the thief was in the right — we’re just saying that if OB hadn’t left her shit unattended, she’d probably still have her 17 bucks.
But let’s face it — most of us have left our shit laying around here or there every once and a while. It just takes something like this to learn our lesson.
So OB likely won’t leave her stuff lying around from now on and this is a lesson to all of us.
Having something stolen from you, no matter what the circumstances, feels like a violation. Because it *is* a violation.
Well OP, you learned a lesson most of us learned when we were 8. It just took you about 10 extra years. Nobody’s perfect!
get a timmie’s cup, and a cheapo guitar, need i say more?