Is This Stealing or Just A Lucky Find?

[Ziggy]

Just think about it this way: This makes up for a time you got screwed. Or it will make up for the next time you get screwed. It's just the world going round, don't feel bad. Something good happen to you, don't feel bad about it. It's not as if you stole it from some one, or even stole it from a store.

[wakeup]

I believe my criminology class said "Crime is necessary for social stability" or something like that because if no one committed crime and suffered retribution, people wouldn't know social deterrence and behave "properly".

So even if it was a crime, it was all for social stability

[dedalusdedalus]

I believe my criminology class said "Crime is necessary for social stability" or something like that because if no one committed crime and suffered retribution, people wouldn't know social deterrence and behave "properly".

So even if it was a crime, it was all for social stability

So if enough people committed crimes and were punished for it, the social deterrence effect would eventually cause crime to stop altogether.

But if crime stopped together, the social deterrence effect would cease and crime would rise.

...I think your criminology class is ripping you off.

[the7k]

During my first year of university while living in dorms, there were a couple vending machines in the laundry room (which had a lock on the door. It could be locked from the inside(!)). The guy who filled the machines forgot to lock the one with chips and chocolate bars one day. Of course, we found out pretty quickly. It wasn't too much of a challenge to figure out how to change a few of our favourite brands from $1.00 to .10 cents. It wasn't discovered for about 2 months. Was it wrong? Absolutely. Was I innocent? Absolutely not. Was it fun? Hell yes.

Reminds me of something that happened at my dorm. The vending machine that sold bottles of Coke normally sold them for $1... I put a dollar in, get a Coke, and it spits $0.75 back.

Knowing the situation would be fixed soon, the machines had screwed me many times before, and I was low on cash and could use any break I could get - I brought a whole ton of quarters with me and two duffel bags. Had that fridge filled for a month.

[Breetai]

Reminds me of something that happened at my dorm. The vending machine that sold bottles of Coke normally sold them for $1... I put a dollar in, get a Coke, and it spits $0.75 back.

Knowing the situation would be fixed soon, the machines had screwed me many times before, and I was low on cash and could use any break I could get - I brought a whole ton of quarters with me and two duffel bags. Had that fridge filled for a month.

Heh, heh.

Back around the same time, during the .69 McDonald's cheeseburger deal, I used to stock our lounge fridge full of cheeseburgers. There would literally be WEEKS where all we would eat were cheeseburgers. Screw the cafeteria. Good times!

[dedalusdedalus]

Back around the same time, during the .69 McDonald's cheeseburger deal, I used to stock our lounge fridge full of cheeseburgers. There would literally be WEEKS where all we would eat were cheeseburgers. Screw the cafeteria. Good times!

That's a brilliant idea. I've practically been living on McD's Filet o' Fish for the last two weeks because of that 2 for $3 deal.

I thought my eating habits would return to normal when that deal ends, but now that I know you can freeze McD stuff, I'm not too sure on that one. I might just roll up to McD on the last day of that deal and buy like $300 worth of Filet o' Fish.

[CRTGAMER]

I have a bit of a moral question for you guys.

Earlier tonight I went to a local game shop and was lucky to find a complete copy of Vectorman (Sega Genesis) for the price of $3.99.

Now.. before I purchased the game, I pulled out the cardboard sleeve to check that everything was there and I ended up finding not just the Vectorman cartridge with the game manual.. BUT ALSO A VECTORMAN 2 CARTRIDGE IN THERE WITH IT!

I then became a little hesitant as to what to do. My first instinct was to yell out to the store employee, "Hey, there's another game in here!" But because both games are on my want list and I figured that this was their mistake for missing it, I decided not to say anything and just went to pay for it.

To be honest, I do feel a little guilty about it now. But there's also still that "it was their mistake" idea swimming around in my head.

What do you all think? If this happened to you, what would you do? Would you feel bad?

I bought a rare PS1 controller for $5.00 at the swap meet. No hidden extra item with that controller, seller knew exactly what item he was selling, just not its true potential value. He was happy to sell it and I happy to buy it. A little twinge of guilt, was that dishonest?

Since you did discover something extra that the store would probably have sold separate there is that question of what was right and wrong and hence the guilt. Was it a big loss to the store no, but more importantly better to do the right thing. By discussing in the manner you wrote I think it shows you have very good morales. Maybe try to rub some of that off on me.

[yomomma1]

Vectorman 1 and 2 aren't exactly worth much, so I don't think it matters.

[aaron]

I bought a rare PS1 controller for $5.00 at the swap meet. No hidden extra item with that controller, seller knew exactly what item he was selling, just not its true potential value. He was happy to sell it and I happy to buy it. A little twinge of guilt, was that dishonest?

tell me more about this rare PS1 controller. this is the first time i've heard about it. what made it so rare?

[SNYPE]

I found Fatal Frame II for PS2 in decent condition being sold by a movie rental store for $2. Best deal evar.

EDIT: And you guys reminded me of a vending machine back in high school. You choose Cherry Pepsi and it gave you two. I abused it everyday for two years.