Vengeance is mine!

[thebitterguy]

What to do when somene is stealing your lunch.

So very nice. An outline of who steals food, and proper modes of vengeance. Such as making tuna salad with cat food, or meatloaf with laxative.

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[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Your link is flawed. Here's a fixed copy: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/4137785.html

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Vaguely-connected county jail story:

There was this guy, can't recall his name, but apparently he enjoyed the food served there. So much he always made rounds asking for everyone's untouched bits, or their leftovers. And he wasn't one of the homeless ones who would get arrested for "3 hots and a cot" for a weekend or so.

Anyhow, a bunch of the guys got tired of him bothering everyone every. single. meal.

So, long story short, they put the powdered laxative you could get through the commissary into some chili mac we were served one night. A whole bunch of it. A whooooooooooole bunch of it.

He spent about half the night on the toilet. :P

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

My favorite is the Tupperware toner bomb. Take a Tupperware container, preferably one with a sticky lid. Line it with paper towels. Fill it with copier toner, cover with a loose paper towel and snap the lid on the sucker.

There's no covering up that crime.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

See, to me at least, there's a big difference between someone stealing lunches and someone asking for the stuff folks aren't eating.

One's... well, stealing. Anonymous theft, no face, no name, no way to deal with the problem up front.

The other isn't. If someone is irritating you by asking for your leftovers, there are more ethical ways to deal with them than spiking their food with laxatives. Unless, of course, you're being physically intimidated, beat up, threatened, etc. I think it's pretty damned cowardly to spike someone's food with laxative just because they want to eat what you don't. (Not to mention wasteful and meanspirited.)

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

If it were happening to me, as a first offensive I'd probably go with very very hot sauce. Chances are, most other people aren't as tolerant as me so I could still eat it if it didn't get nabbed that day, and if it does get nabbed it might point out who stole it. Only if that failed would I go to stronger measures.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I did say "vaguely-connected", ya know.

And it's connected to the laxative in the article.

As for it being meanspirited or whatever... um, yeah. I didn't paint it in a favourable light.

Also, it's jail. If you think that's "meanspirited"... *shakes head*

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

I guess I was just pointing out that it wasn't amusing (to me) in the same way that the lunch-thief-revenge was. One was sort of a justified vengeance, another was just mean (yes, I realize it's far from the meanest thing that happens in jail, but it doesn't make it amusing or not-mean.)

But that's just my 2 cents worth.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

And I'm all the richer for it. ;)

[anidada.livejournal.com]

This really happens? I can't imagine why people would steal other folks' lunch. There is nobody here, for example, who would do that, partly because they'd be caught, and partly because nobody's lunch is worth stealing. People bring food that smells and looks totally vile as it is -- if they don't go out for lunch. The only thing that's ever been nabbed is milk, but that's only out of confusion over whether what's in the fridge was bought by the company.

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Same here, the only time anything has ever gone missing out of someone's lunch, it was likely a mistake, (someone thinking one of those mini pizzas in a baggie was for one of the kids and making it up for the kid's snack/lunch.)

[thebitterguy]

"Hey, it's not like they SHIVVED the guy!"

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

You didn't see too many shanks (shivs) in jail. That was more a prison thing.

What did happen is someone would "fall off their bunk in the middle of the night" and be taken to the hospital. That happened a lot.

It's amazing how many different and diverse bruisings, swellings and fractures simply falling off the bunk can cause.

It's even more amazing to think about it when you realise that half the people in jail are on the lower bunk!

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

How many people work there?

[anidada.livejournal.com]

We're holding at around 55.

[thebitterguy]

I have no idea. All I know is it happens enough at my workplace that there are letters on the front of the fridge and occasional emails sent by the VP.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

From my experiences, you don't see too much theft when it's smaller #s (less than, say 100?)