Tag: theft
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What Kind of Person Steals Their Co-workers' Lunch?
For the past month or two, my place of work (this very website) has been plagued by a relatively harmless but deeply mystifying figure: the phantom lunch thief. What’s happened since has followed a trajectory sure to be familiar to anyone who’s ever worked in an office with more than, say, 30 employees: a … -
When One Library Steals From Another
What happens when a university library completely rips-off the web design of a different university's library service?
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Wake Me Up When September Begins
Between the death of his old phone, a couple of different health-related issues, and now the theft of his bike, Dan's having a pretty shitty month. Let's hope that September's better.
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Security Through Obscurity Reaches A New Low
PowerPizza! It's a laptop bag that looks like a pizza box! No longer do you have to worry about your attractive laptop being an easy target for thieves - who'd want to steal a pizza box?
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Now Where Did I Put My House?
Did anybody see the story about the American who had their house stolen this weekend? That's a fantastic theft to pull off. Wish I'd thought of it first. Ah well.
Also this weekend, a man is killed in a collision between a car and a train. Not particularly noteworthy under normal circumstances, I know, but the … -
Ice-Cream Van Hijacked
How do you hold your head high in criminal circles after you pull off a crime like this:
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #35:
Raid a skip outside the computer labs, filled to the brim with semi-defunct equipment. Steal several cables, some dumb-terminal keyboards, and a PSU (which was funtional, but later caught fire). Spend much of the remainder of the afternoon taking broken … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #33:
Consider a Pot Noodle to be an adequate substitute for breakfast, after you discover that your bread has been stolen and your milk supports more cultures than the United Nations.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #9:
Steal a flag from a golf course, and, without the aid of alcohol, smuggle it through town, into and out of burger king, and onto campus, with the overall aim of setting up your own course near your room, and … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #8:
Lose a pair of shoes by leaving them outside your door and finding them missing the following morning. Then find another pair you've never seen before underneath your bed.
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at …