Absolutely dumbfounded by thieves at my University.

[Lovely Mixture]

It was me.
I ate your chips.
They were delicious.

Oh thank god, I thought it was one of my family members. I buy chips all the time, only for them to disappear in the next day with only a handful (pun intended) of memories.

 

[fix-the-spade]

EDIT: The consensus seems to be that the chips were eaten by someone who was high or that they were unhappy and left of their own accord. That's one mystery solved.

Check that any passes, ID or documents containing personal details aren't missing. It's not uncommon for break ins to be after that kind of stuff to either sell or use in electronic fraud, since it leaves less obvious damage and can be harder to track than physical things.

Otherwise, lucky you!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Maybe the OP got really fucking high and ate the chips, then forgot about the whole thing.

I'm onto you, hippie scum.

Or maybe....

Maybe the chips got amazingly fucking high and ate themselves. O_O

And the door just opened in shock!

You mean kinda like those cannibalistic Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares?

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Set up security cams and photo traps, the more the merrier.

As to the thought process involved... not a clue. I am not a thief and I can hardly put myself in the head of someone entering someone else's home, let alone adopt a global self-service attitude.

All I know is I find such behaviour not acceptable at all, and I would want it to stop. Bonus points for getting them thrown off campus.

 

[The Heik]

snip?

You've never heard of the munchies have you?

I have, and in my dorm that's not very surprising, but there was better food available right next to the chips, so I still don't understand the thought process.

You don't have to. When someone has the munchies, they can often focus one one specific thing almost to the exclusion of all others. It they are craving a bag of chips, it doesn't matter if there is a 12 course Christmas buffet right next to it, they will take the chips and only the chips.

Though if there was a Christmas buffet, they may come back for seconds.....

 

[sky14kemea]

Maybe the OP got really fucking high and ate the chips, then forgot about the whole thing.

I'm onto you, hippie scum.

Or maybe....

Maybe the chips got amazingly fucking high and ate themselves. O_O

And the door just opened in shock!

You mean kinda like those cannibalistic Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares?

Exactly!

Man, I can picture it now. All the chips fighting to eat one another, total carnage. Screaming in their chippy agony! Suddenly the door bursts open, screaming: "Save yourselves, little chips! Run!" To the smaller ones.

They try to hop off the countertop, but no! The bigger ones catch them! D:

Then the last one finishes up all the crumbs, and in one last act of pure chaos, eats himself.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

EDIT: The consensus seems to be that the chips were eaten by someone who was high or that they were unhappy and left of their own accord. That's one mystery solved.

Check that any passes, ID or documents containing personal details aren't missing. It's not uncommon for break ins to be after that kind of stuff to either sell or use in electronic fraud, since it leaves less obvious damage and can be harder to track than physical things.

Otherwise, lucky you!

My IDs and debit card were with me in my wallet, safe wasn't broken into, and all my financial documents were where I left them. Thinking of putting the safe to better use than just locking up my medicine.

 

[teebeeohh]

maybe somebody was high, went into the wrong room, ate the chips, noticed he was in the wrong room and fled when the panic set in

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Maybe the OP got really fucking high and ate the chips, then forgot about the whole thing.

I'm onto you, hippie scum.

Or maybe....

Maybe the chips got amazingly fucking high and ate themselves. O_O

And the door just opened in shock!

You mean kinda like those cannibalistic Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares?

Exactly!

Man, I can picture it now. All the chips fighting to eat one another, total carnage. Screaming in their chippy agony! Suddenly the door bursts open, screaming: "Save yourselves, little chips! Run!" To the smaller ones.

They try to hop off the countertop, but no! The bigger ones catch them! D:

Then the last one finishes up all the crumbs, and in one last act of pure chaos, eats himself.

That would've been one hell of a grim scene.

 

[RustlessPotato]

Maybe Aliens wanted to explore the organisms of Earth and thought the chips were what lives here and took them away for further examination...

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Maybe Aliens wanted to explore the organisms of Earth and thought the chips were what lives here and took them away for further examination...

This seems likely.

 

[Dags90]

I have, and in my dorm that's not very surprising, but there was better food available right next to the chips, so I still don't understand the thought process.

What exactly is this better food we keep hearing about?

The mystery of it is killing me. I'm trying really hard not to assume it's schnitzel or saurbraten or some other stereotypical German food.

 

[Aeonknight]

This is actually much smarter than you give them credit.
Steal a TV, the police'll be on their asses and find them, steal a bag of chips? You're not likely to even call it in.

I hate to say it, but it doesn't quite work that way.

The police aren't going to actively pursue a thief over a 1 time incident. And don't expect them to go all CSI on the crime scene, cause it would literally cost the police department more in man power and resources than the value of what as stolen.

Sorry but if someone steals your TV, it's gone. You ain't ever seeing it again. About the only chance you have at bringing them to justice is if you know the thief and recognize your stuff in their house, or if you have like a security camera that catches an image of his face. Or if the thief is an idiot and frequents the area and keeps stealing over and over again.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I have, and in my dorm that's not very surprising, but there was better food available right next to the chips, so I still don't understand the thought process.

What exactly is this better food we keep hearing about?

The mystery of it is killing me. I'm trying really hard not to assume it's schnitzel or saurbraten or some other stereotypical German food.

For one, PIZZA! The ultimate college dorm food, something that is universally awesome and can be customized to anyone's personal tastes, mine was a meaty pizza so it should have been appealing to the majority of the pot heads in my dorm building.

And there wouldn't be schnitzel in my dorm, only schnitzel crumbs all around my smiling mouth.

 

[Dags90]

For one, PIZZA! The ultimate college dorm food, something that is universally awesome and can be customized to anyone's personal tastes, mine was a meaty pizza so it should have been appealing to the majority of the pot heads in my dorm building.

And there wouldn't be schnitzel in my dorm, only schnitzel crumbs all around my smiling mouth.

Perhaps the thief was a vegetarian? Some sort of vegetarian, hippie, anarcho-communist who doesn't believe in personal property.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

For one, PIZZA! The ultimate college dorm food, something that is universally awesome and can be customized to anyone's personal tastes, mine was a meaty pizza so it should have been appealing to the majority of the pot heads in my dorm building.

And there wouldn't be schnitzel in my dorm, only schnitzel crumbs all around my smiling mouth.

Perhaps the thief was a vegetarian? Some sort of vegetarian, hippie, anarcho-communist who doesn't believe in personal property.

Quite possibly. I'll have to track down this pinko, hippy dippy scum and teach him a lesson.

 

[Tanis]

Maybe it was a trial run?

 

[Ranorak]

Don't underestimate the appeal of a bag of chips.

Depending on the flavour, of course.
I mean, can you really blame someone for breaking in, if they knew there was a delicious bag of paprika chip.
Just lying there...
Alone...
No one eating it...


Excuse me, I have to go to the store..