Inspired by the "lunch thief" thread...

[IUTBAM]

have you ever used what my DH calls "frontier justice" like what was described in the lunch thief thread?

We have! When we bought our first house WAY back when, we started having the issue of our Sunday newspaper disappearing out of our driveway EVERY Sunday morning. We knew it was being delivered (I called the paper), but someone was stealing it EVERY Sunday. Finally my DH had enough...he got up VERY early on Sunday and got the REAL paper, and put the previous day's paper in the plastic cover and set it back out on the driveway, and went back to sleep. HOWEVER, he had added a little something, which was rolled up on the inside...all the poop from our dog (who had been wormed a few days prior) he could find in our backyard! GROSS is an understatement. Sure enough, when we woke up later that morning, the "fake" paper was gone! I've never seen my husband laugh so hard in his life. We never had another issue with paper theft. I hope that thief opened up the paper at his breakfast table...mwahahahahaha!

 

[dodukes]

thats hilarious

 

[hereyago]

And yes I have if I needed to.

 

[hereyago]

Some things are things that aren't call the cops worthy and even then ,they have to see the person doing it. I have even had a cop tell me when it came to a firecracker man event that the same could work for me. the guy wasn't going to call the cops if things happened to him that he couldn't prove and the cops didnt' see.

every one likes fireworks,but not in a residential area where it's illegal and you wake my kid up and freak my dog out. and it's been dry outside and there are firecracker papers in my yard. and it's not even a holiday.

 

[hereyago]

I hope that thief opened up the paper at his breakfast table...mwahahahahaha!

Thief: honey look, I got you the um, eewwww.

 

[allison443]

Some things are things that aren't call the cops worthy and even then ,they have to see the person doing it. I have even had a cop tell me when it came to a firecracker man event that the same could work for me. the guy wasn't going to call the cops if things happened to him that he couldn't prove and the cops didnt' see.

every one likes fireworks,but not in a residential area where it's illegal and you wake my kid up and freak my dog out. and it's been dry outside and there are firecracker papers in my yard. and it's not even a holiday.

So what did you do?

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

There was someone stealing food at my place of work a while ago, that is, until someone brought in a batch of Brownies. A1 Brownies. A few weeks later, the food theft started again... Until the thief got a Tuna filled cupcake. Then it finally stopped.

 

[DisneyScraps]

To appreciate this you have to go back to 1985.....

It was a largely cash society.

Once upon a time,.....I worked at a restaurant and I was getting the really good shifts. We all used the same locker room and no one used locks for our stuff. One Saturday night after working there was 20.00 less in my wallet. This was back when I was 20 years old and 20.00 was a big damn deal. I noticed it and thought that it was weird but I didn't think more about it.

The following Saturday after working I was cleaned out. That I really noticed. I almost didn't make my rent. That was a big deal!

I thought it over hard. Saturday was the one night when almost the entire shift was working. Who in the staff had an ax to grind with me. It was really hard for me to believe that anyone in there would STEAL from me.

There was one older waitress she was in her 40's and had worked there more than anyone. I got to be training waitress and she thought it should be her. She kind of always gave me angry eyes when we would work together

Third Saturday I loaded my wallet with 20.00 I had 100.00 in there...Wow BIG spender! I also wrote down the serial numbers of every bill in my wallet. I would go into the locker room every half hour to see if all the money was still there. I noticed when again my 100.00 was cleared out.

I went to the manager with my story. My poor tables that night.

She checked everyones money in their banks nothing but BINGO the drawer where we all made change had one of the 20.00's in the draw. That meant it would be anyone.

What that meant to me was. Someone (I suspected "the old waitress"} took the money, put it in her apron and when she had to make change she used one of my 20.00 to do it. that check and my 20.00 went into the drawer.

Kind of like laundering laundry.

Not sure if this is really clear but the manager, myself an the busboy were convinced that "the older waitress" took the money. Can we prove it...not really.

If you have ever worked in a restaurant you know the vibe. It's a big family and I was the little sister. Everyone was pissed off. I had PROOF that I was being stolen from because I had a serial number of a bill that was in circulation in the DR. I guess a really nefarious could argue that I myself planted it

Long story short. The VICE PRESIDENT of the company came to see us. He said that any kind of theft was serious and he was going to give us 48 hours to sort this out or he was coming back with a lie Decatur test. Anyone on staff would be taking it and anyone that failed it would be turned over to the law. Quit and there would be no questions asked.

She quit the next day.

She was the only member of the staff to quit.

i am not sure that back in 1985 we could be made to take that test but when I think of it I thought the bluff was brilliant and I got to work there for another year without and harassment of "that older waitress" and I got to be the cool waitress that outsmarted "the old waitress"

The names have been changed to protect the not so innocent

Lisa

 

[hereyago]

First: my next door neighbor was just as frontier justice as I was. and he was with me when the cops came. the guy wouldn't answer the door and talk to the cops. then shot them off again.

he didn't work. so in the day time he liked to sleep. somehow there were fireworks going to his house and waking him up-the neighbor next to him let us use his area to shoot fireworks off. there were fireworks going off at his parents house. they lived 2 streets away and were big ol enablers. so they got it too.


he got the message and the weird thing is somehow his brand new truck had engine issues, but I didn't do that and my next door neighbor didn't do it, so I can't claim it but it was funny. but this guy was a trouble maker who not long before according to the cops helped "block" other cops when another guy was attacking an officer.

ours is a quiet street, we watch out for each other and we don't play with sillyness.

then there was the guys who liked to play with remote control cars constantly like get some girlfrineds and purposely try to put the car under your car as you were coming down the street. my car is low, oops I am sorry did i run over your car?

 

[IDoDis]

First: my next door neighbor was just as frontier justice as I was. and he was with me when the cops came. the guy wouldn't answer the door and talk to the cops. then shot them off again.

he didn't work. so in the day time he liked to sleep. somehow there were fireworks going to his house and waking him up-the neighbor next to him let us use his area to shoot fireworks off. there were fireworks going off at his parents house. they lived 2 streets away and were big ol enablers. so they got it too.


he got the message and the weird thing is somehow his brand new truck had engine issues, but I didn't do that and my next door neighbor didn't do it, so I can't claim it but it was funny. but this guy was a trouble maker who not long before according to the cops helped "block" other cops when another guy was attacking an officer.

ours is a quiet street, we watch out for each other and we don't play with sillyness.

then there was the guys who liked to play with remote control cars constantly like get some girlfrineds and purposely try to put the car under your car as you were coming down the street. my car is low, oops I am sorry did i run over your car?

What???? I read this twice and have no idea what you wrote.

 

[hereyago]

What???? I read this twice and have no idea what you wrote.

And I am not trying to be snarky, I know my typing was kind of long winded without proper paragraphs.
Ok, this is the slooww version. firecracker man didn't work so daytime he slept. neighbor and I would light up firecrackers that would go towards his house think loud bazooka sounding ones. his parents who enabled him-lived a few streets up they got it as well.

his truck can't claim that one, but someone he ticked off messed up his new truck not sure with sugar or what.


Then I wrote about one time some guys lived in a rental house-they liked remote control cars up and down the road at all hours. they would try to beat your car with theirs, so I ran over one.

 

[SleepyMom]

Way back in the mid to late 70's we had a neighbor who was quite disgusting. He would stand at his window and watch me walk by and make jestures, yell things to me, stand naked in his back door, etc... you get the idea. The police were called but without seeing him do it couldn't really do anything about it. The policeman even told us ways to get justice and stay within the law because they knew about him.

One day I was listening to the radio and they had a call-in contest for concert tickets and I heard our neighbors name announced as the winner. On the day of the concert my parents followed him as he left and watched where he parked his car at the arena. Later that evening they had one of my brothers crawl under the car and put limberger cheese on the manifold, for months afterwards we watched him try and figure out where the smell in his car was coming from.

 

[arminnie]

I shared a fence with the townhouse next to me. Their nasty little dogs kept coming under the fence to poop right at my kitchen sliding door. Just what I want to see while I am eating.

I kept trying to block it - but there was some problem on their side of the fence that needed to be done. They kept doing nothing. Finally I just picked up all the poop and spread it all around their exit door. No way they could get out without cleaning it up or stepping in it. The problem stopped.

 

[surfergirl602]

And I am not trying to be snarky, I know my typing was kind of long winded without proper paragraphs.
Ok, this is the slooww version. firecracker man didn't work so daytime he slept. neighbor and I would light up firecrackers that would go towards his house think loud bazooka sounding ones. his parents who enabled him-lived a few streets up they got it as well.

his truck can't claim that one, but someone he ticked off messed up his new truck not sure with sugar or what.


Then I wrote about one time some guys lived in a rental house-they liked remote control cars up and down the road at all hours. they would try to beat your car with theirs, so I ran over one.

So you are saying that just because his parents supported him and he didn't have a job, you set of fireworks near his house and his parents home so the noise would wake him up? That's not frontier justice - I would call the cops on you.

 

[IUTBAM]

Glad to see we aren't the only ones who believe in payback! roflmbo

 

[tlbwriter]

Friends of mine rented a house while in college - the landlady was notoriously cheap and refused to make repairs in a timely manner (they went several days without heat during winter, etc.). A month before their lease ended, the refrigerator died. She told them she wasn't going to fix it or buy a new one, she'd just make the next tenants provide their own, so if they wanted a working fridge, that was their problem (which was illegal in that state - she was required to maintain all appliances that came with the house). So they borrowed a dorm-size fridge from a friend, and as they sat there looking at a pile of perishable food that wouldn't fit in the smaller fridge, they got an evil idea. Anything that wouldn't fit in there was stored in a friend's freezer, and the day before they moved out they got it back and hid it throughout the house - attic, water heater closet, etc. They knew she hadn't been able to rent it immediately after their departure (she kept badgering them to stay) so the house probably sat there, getting stinkier, for quite some time.

 

[Christopher Robin]

So you are saying that just because his parents supported him and he didn't have a job, you set of fireworks near his house and his parents home so the noise would wake him up? That's not frontier justice - I would call the cops on you.

Can it be proven to the cops satisfaction who did it?

That's the point of this thread, I think.

 

[Kirby]

So you are saying that just because his parents supported him and he didn't have a job, you set of fireworks near his house and his parents home so the noise would wake him up? That's not frontier justice - I would call the cops on you.

In her original post, she said that the person was setting off firecrackers in her yard, waking up her child and causing her dog to go nuts. So where the FJ comes in they set off firecrackers during the day when he was sleeping and added fireworks at his parents house for good measure. As far as the parents supporting him, I read it as him being a slacker and the parents enabling him to be a slacker.

 

[surfergirl602]

In her original post, she said that the person was setting off firecrackers in her yard, waking up her child and causing her dog to go nuts. So where the FJ comes in they set off firecrackers during the day when he was sleeping and added fireworks at his parents house for good measure. As far as the parents supporting him, I read it as him being a slacker and the parents enabling him to be a slacker.

Okay, now that makes more sense. I couldn't understand the posts by that poster at all!

 

[hereyago]

So you are saying that just because his parents supported him and he didn't have a job, you set of fireworks near his house and his parents home so the noise would wake him up? That's not frontier justice - I would call the cops on you.

I wasn't going to go all into this but since you think the cops should have been called on us:

The morning after the 1 incident and calling the cops, his DF came over to my house and yelling at me why i called the cops. Now this is a grown man and his daddy is coming over and doing this. i told him we are a quiet cul de sac,familys and firecrackers shooting over our houses at 2 am isn't cute. then he decided to be funny and said he could shoot them anywhere anytime, so yes they got it to-since his DF was so nice and insisted fireworks could be set off at anytime.