Ever had games/console/ electronics stolen ?

Talk about just about anything else that is non-gaming here, but keep it clean
Airfare
Newbie
Posts: 10
Joined: Mon May 30, 2011 5:16 am

Re: Ever had games/console/ electronics stolen ?

Post by Airfare »

it's been a long time since i had any electronics stolen usually by a friend. but the last thing i can remember being stolen from a stranger was a portable tape player it was left inside a vehicle.........
Droid party
Next-Gen
Posts: 1350
Joined: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:23 pm
Location: Stuck in my childhood.

Re: Ever had games/console/ electronics stolen ?

Post by Droid party »

Bikeage wrote:
Luke wrote:
Bikeage wrote: Karma sure is a bitch.
Says a thief. :roll:
]
Hobie-wan wrote: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... &start=218

Oh man, not cool. Maybe next time just mention to her that she screwed up the pizza rather than steal from her. I mean, she was actually trying to be nice.
First off, this incident happened ten years ago, and my Karma bill has been paid in full. Second, there is alot more to the story regarding just how much her poor skills were affecting food cost, labor costs, and employee morale in general. This all affected my bottom line as kitchen manager, yet due to a fucked up hierarchy I had zero say in firing her, and had to basically let her do it herself. She was making my work life miserable, regardless of how nice she wanted to treat me this one particular day, which was atypical behavior for sure. 99% of every other interaction I had with her she was a selfish prick who screwed me over many times in many ways.

And yes, stealing is wrong, but the way I saw it she stole $10 from me by making me an inedible pizza, not to mention the cost of the product she wasted, which when added up over her employment got me bitched at by the owner more than once. And she was not a mother or had dependents, so I was not taking food off her family's table in any way, shape, or form. She had a boyfriend who was doing very well and basically supported her, she only had this part time job just for shits and giggles, which is about as seriously as she took it.

I'm no angel, but stealing anything from anyone is not a habit of mine. While not my proudest moment, it does not even come close to making my Big List Of Regrets. For the record, she got canned a few months later when she defied the big boss and no called no showed for an entire week. That is what it took to finally get rid of her... ugh, that's the most I have thought about that place for a long time and hopefully the last.

And to stay on topic, way back when some new neighborhood kid hung out at my house one day and my NES cart of Contra came up missing. a few days later he sheepishly shows up with his mom who apologizes and gives me fucking Deadly Towers in return for whatever reason. We all know what a pile of shit DT is. Luckily I had played Contra to death, but even being a new game could not make up for Deadly Towers awfulness. And how's this for karma... less than seven years later this guy got fucked up and blew his brains out. Have a nice day.
Justify it how you want Stealy McStealerson, I've got my eye on you!
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
User avatar
littlecallen
16-bit
Posts: 91
Joined: Sat Sep 11, 2010 10:22 am
Location: Where I'm at son

Re: Ever had games/console/ electronics stolen ?

Post by littlecallen »

Dude, living in VA beach for ten years turned some rough times for this guy.
a sterio
a car radio
a PS1
a PS2
a TV
Crash: Warped
Crash Team Racing
Spyro 1
Spyro 2
another TV
another PS2
another car radio
another copy of CTR
life was groovy
Why did Kevin Flynn blare Journey so loud in his arcade? Was he trying to hear it from the grid?
User avatar
BurningDoom
Next-Gen
Posts: 5953
Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:14 am

Re: Ever had games/console/ electronics stolen ?

Post by BurningDoom »

Yeah, I've got to agree. A bad pizza doesn't make it okay to steal $10. Maybe demanding a free pizza, but not stealing her money.

And a guy blowing his brains out is somehow equal karma to stealing an NES game?

I won't ever piss you off.
Game Trade/Want List:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 22&t=28206

Consoles Owned: Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Super GB, N64, Gamecube, GB Player, Wii, Sega Power Base Converter, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, TurboGrafx-16, PlayStation, PS2 Slim, XBox, XBox 360, Game Boy, GBC, GBA-SP, DS, Game Gear, GG Master Converter
Post Reply