Comments on: WWYD: Watching Someone You Know Steal

By: josefinastrummer

josefinastrummer — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:25:34 +0000

@nonvolleyball Nope. Stealing from someone’s ATM card is stealing. I don’t care if it was $10 or $100. You have no idea what the person’s situation is, because it’s not your card. Would you use this card in a store for only $40? No way!

Why should Dave Bry be the exception and this guy not? It’s just wrong and shows how people do make exceptions when people they know do this.

By: nonvolleyball

nonvolleyball — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:49:32 +0000

@aeroaeroaero as stupid as it sounds, I feel like the amount matters. $40 is juuuust on the side of “an amount a lot of people would be able to deal with losing” (although some people couldn’t, for sure). $100–more than twice that, let’s note–just seems greedy in addition to amoral.

By: sparrow303

sparrow303 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:17:53 +0000

Dealbreaker for sure! I’m from Chicago, where people fall all over themselves to stop you if you drop a glove on the El. I can’t imagine doing this– or dating someone who would.

By: cmcm

cmcm — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:07:33 +0000

Also, this is why I am so glad that your card comes out before your cash in the UK. It is SO easy to leave your card behind.

By: cmcm

cmcm — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:05:10 +0000

@kellyography That was my first thought— it would never even OCCUR to me in this situation that I could say ‘yes’ and take out money from someone else’s card. It sounds like she did the only thing possible given the circumstances. Ugh, how horrible.

By: Kzinti

Kzinti — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:53:01 +0000

@Weasley It amazes me how so many people think it is ok to take things (or money) that belong to someone else. Thank you for having the integrity to stand up to your friends about it. I’m a CPA and am constantly amazed by how many people I meet who are proud to tell me how they get / give money under the table or otherwise cheat on their taxes. I tell them that is illegal and they should just pay what they owe, which is what my husband and I do.

The whole “sticking it to the man” thing is bullshit. Who do you think that man is? My dad owns a fast food business (one location that is his own, not a franchise) and he is struggling to pay his bills. If someone shoplifts bags of chips that are displayed outside the counter area, what man is being stuck?

By: Weasley

Weasley — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:59:32 +0000

This reminds me of how my friends used to casually steal fancy cheese from the grocery store. I think this is a common phenomenon found with young and mostly privileged college students. My friends felt a little bit guilty about their privilege so they thought they were sticking it to the man. But it was dumb. And it was stealing. And I made it clear that I was not oaky with it.

By: megsy

megsy — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:51:08 +0000

Dealbreaker for sure. How awful.

By: TARDIStime

TARDIStime — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:21:21 +0000

Yeah, I’d stick with the guy and fly back purely because I’d have to re-arrange air tickets and the whole shebang would probably cost way more than the stolen $100.
But the second we hit the tarmac in our home city, that city = Breakup City.

By: thatgirl

thatgirl — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:07:28 +0000

Dealbreaker.

But I would definitely stay with the guy until I could get back home, because I have stayed in more fucked up situations for longer than that in the interest of not rocking the boat before I could make a clean getaway.