The TGIF Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

[furiosity]

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[slytherincesss]

I think that sometimes someone can accidentally walk away with one's pen. I've done it myself. I didn't mean to take the pen, but it just happened. Technically, some might call that theft, but there was no malicious intent there.

LOL at your LOLCAT!

[furiosity]

I actually don't think intent is required to call something theft (hence the question, really)! Basically I don't think all theft is malicious.

THE LOLCAT KNOWS THE TRUTH OF THINGS. >:D

[slytherincesss]

Yeah, because then you get into the whole Jean Valjean thing where you start wondering if stealing food to feed hungry children is malicious or truly wrong . . . so I see what you mean by theft being theft period I just don't think all theft is necessarily wrong. And that may make me . . . I don't even know what . . . but after being a probation officer for so long, I have a pretty whacked view of theft.

[furiosity]

Oh, I totally agree that all theft is not necessarily wrong. (Hell, after all, fan fiction is a form of theft; depending on who you talk to, anyway.) I was thinking about this the other day and it struck me how much emotional baggage is connected to theft. I realised that to me, someone who plots ways to relieve another person of their property (but never follows through) will always be in much worse moral shape than the delivery-person who makes off with someone's pen or the desperate mother with her loaf of bread.

(I also generally tend to view stealing from individuals as 300% worse than stealing from a business, so there we go. >.>)

[alex_s9]

This lolcat is me.

[furiosity]

You and most people I know. :D

[__hibiscus]

At my old job I used to be known as the girl that chased people down for walking away with her pen.

[furiosity]

Story of me, my boss, and my lighter! :D

My Pen!

[pokeystar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy0UpRIncYM

Re: My Pen!

[furiosity]

ahahahah! Perfect. :D

[_inbetween_]

sheboss has taken all 100 + 100 ball point pens in the 1 year I've been here. I write my name on them, I put it in drawer, I order new ones - the only thing I haven't done is strung a heavy object from it like I did with the toilet key, which she recently removed again. she wants people to laugh and accept it is her hobby. I cannot fill out bank drafts with a pencil (which she also steals if hers are no longer sharp) and I need a change of fluids every few hours. One delivery person would not even register with me besides such a vile ...

[furiosity]

wow, that's a lot of pens, holy crap.

[_inbetween_]

Suggestions of what she could possibly do with them are welcome. She's too well-fed and comfortable to sell them at a street corner.

[furiosity]

They're probably stashed away in drawers! Pen thieves usually have large pen collections; they just never think of their collection when they need a pen.

[arabwel]

1. Known pnaama for 19 years next month! :D
2. Human error is one of those weird things i dont feel comfy labeling
3. Slytherin. I'm pretty much the queen of 'WANT!' so... Yeah. Too lazy for hufflepuff, too easily bored for ravenclaw, too dishonest for gryffindor.

[furiosity]

Technically speaking, all crime is human error. >_>

[arabwel]

Well yes in one way but i was thinking more along the lines of not erro rin udgement but other kind.. argh, brain fails :P