oh the classic 'steal clothes from walmart and return for girftcards' idea is simply brilliant. when I was in high school and everyone was always broke and looking to party, we'd send kids out to the walmart twenty miles east, tell them to steal 80-90$ in clothes then go to the walmart 20 miles west and buy giftcards, which were promptly used to buy alchohol. kids started getting really excited about the idea and within six or so weeks of doing this multiple groups of kids would drive back and forth between walmart every night so a huge party could go on for hours.
recently I stole three boards at once from a sneaker king 20 miles away....I had stolen a board four years ago on halloween, and need some product to give away at our park's first ever contest. needless to say, renaud, garcia and templeton boards along with ari evan's free grip got alot of kids hyped on coming out!
I do agree that stealing from induvidials, mom and pop stores, or from people's houses is really whack. nothing wrong with taking a warm chicken parm from shoprite when you're unemployed, or scoring free bacon egg and cheese sandwhiches from turkey hill.
I'm trying to think of the most funny story I know concerning someone getting caught shoplifting...I have plenty involving straight robbery which is real fucked. one of my good friends was driving through newburgh new york (the sixth boro apparently) and decided to stop off at the walmart there. he jacked a tooth brush, tooth paste, razor, shaving cream and deoderant so he could freshen up before work, and got thrown in the back of a patrol car, booked, printed and mugged and then got fired from work for not calling in late. I'm sure all of the stuff he stole didn't amount to anything more than fifteen dollars. ha, ha, ha!