Absolutely dumbfounded by thieves at my University.

[EeveeElectro]

They might have melted themselves down and seeped in under the door.

Seriously though, it's probably the master key situation. I bet some cheeky little sod got hold of it and went around taking food. Ask around and see if anyone else has had any food stolen.
At least it wasn't anything valuable but I'm sure someone would notice a person coming out of your room with a huge telly under their arm.

As for a funny story, this apparently happened to my "friend."
I was having a birthday party and before she arrived she said she was in the living room and some people apparently broke in, stole two bottles of cola, some sweets and apparently my birthday present and card that she said she left on the kitchen table.

You're all welcome to use that excuse in the future.

 

[MetalMagpie]

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.

That's what you think, I'm bringing those motherfuckers to justice.

If the Police don't laugh in your face, sure.

I think the breaking and entering is going to turn more heads than the theft of a $3 bag of chips, although I'm not sure if breaking into a dorm room really counts. I'll find out though.

If there's no lock damage, the police will just say that you forgot to lock the door, and will have zero sympathy for you and your missing chips. The police don't tend to think much of the average person's ability to remember to lock a door. After all, almost all opportunistic burglaries happen because someone left a door or ground-floor window open.

And while simply crossing the threshold of someone's house without permission is an offence (assuming your dorm room counts as a house), people normally only get prosecuted for things they do once inside your house. Just wandering around, eating some chips, then leaving again will not land someone in court.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

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.

That's what you think, I'm bringing those motherfuckers to justice.

If the Police don't laugh in your face, sure.

I think the breaking and entering is going to turn more heads than the theft of a $3 bag of chips, although I'm not sure if breaking into a dorm room really counts. I'll find out though.

If there's no lock damage, the police will just say that you forgot to lock the door, and will have zero sympathy for you and your missing chips. The police don't tend to think much of the average person's ability to remember to lock a door. After all, almost all opportunistic burglaries happen because someone left a door or ground-floor window open.

And while simply crossing the threshold of someone's house without permission is an offence (assuming your dorm room counts as a house), people normally only get prosecuted for things they do once inside your house. Just wandering around, eating some chips, then leaving again will not land someone in court.

I'm not looking to land someone in court, kicked out of the dorms or something like that, I'm not so attached to potato chips that I'm going to make a huge case of it, the CA's are checking the security recordings, at least they'll get a warning, at most they'll get kicked out of the dorms.

 

[CAPTCHA]

This thief must be caught! He's out there, laughing at you.

 

[Angie7F]

I had thieves take my moms purse once. They found 20 bucks and a paper sachet of Japanese herbal cold medicine in it, and took that.
I feel sorry for them. they must have sniffed it or smoked it. What a disappointment it must have been.

 

[Ix Rebound]

was it one of those bags of chips that have the little collectible things in them?
people kill for those

 

[Shinsei-J]

was it one of those bags of chips that have the little collectible things in them?
people kill for those

Good thing he wasn't home at the time.
Could have gone from grand theft to murder in an instant.
Though for whoever survived, it would have been one delicious victory.

 

[Varrdy]

Regardless of whether anything of value was stolen or not, it must feel pretty darn uncomfortable to know that someone gained access to what should be your pwon, private little refuge from the world. Yes I suppose it's good nothing of value was taken but still...it'd give me the creeps!

Kinda reminds me of a story I heard once in which, after going to great lengths to break into a factory, a couple of thieves eventually but inefficiently got into the safe and found only three pennies. Oddly, they took two and left one behind.

Now that in itself was stranger than a very strange thing but what I wanna know is how big a miser do you have to be to keep three pence in a safe?!?

 

[LarenzoAOG]

You bastard! You wouldn't dare!

Regardless of whether anything of value was stolen or not, it must feel pretty darn uncomfortable to know that someone gained access to what should be your pwon, private little refuge from the world. Yes I suppose it's good nothing of value was taken but still...it'd give me the creeps!

Oh yeah, been sitting in my room all day in case they come back, CA's are checking the cameras but I'm kind of far down the hall so they may not be able to identify whoever it was, got my stupid stick though, if they do come back they'll get a face full of pipe.

 

[maninahat]

Now would be a good time to recount my favourite anecdote, in which I threw oranges at a burglar. That's about it really. I threw oranges at a burglar.

I knew someone who had been robbed of a wok, and nothing else. I've also heard of people who's cars had been broken into, just to steal a bag of crisps (or to look through the CD collection, ultimately finding only a few worth stealing). My friend's car was broken into for the GPS, but his car is so fucking untidy, it must have been like a find the hidden object game.

 

[Techsmart07]

Back when I worked retail (Thank goodness that is over), I had an incident cleaning one of our shelves like this. Apparently, the thief had stolen the case to a CD. He was kind enough to leave the CD, but just took the case. We never found the case, and had to get rid of the CD, but it begs the question: if you are going to steal the case, might as well take the disk that's in it. He went through the time and effort in the store to open it, running the further risk of getting in trouble, so it just seems kind of dumb to me.

 

[Kecunk]

Back when I worked retail (Thank goodness that is over), I had an incident cleaning one of our shelves like this. Apparently, the thief had stolen the case to a CD. He was kind enough to leave the CD, but just took the case. We never found the case, and had to get rid of the CD, but it begs the question: if you are going to steal the case, might as well take the disk that's in it. He went through the time and effort in the store to open it, running the further risk of getting in trouble, so it just seems kind of dumb to me.

Maybe he already had that cd but his case just broke or something

 

[Fappy]

My neighbors would get high and try to steal our oreos all the time. Seems like normal college stupidity to me >.>

 

[lechat]

damn forum nazis
how could i recieve a warning for this img

when we have whole threads dedicated to single words and images and the picture itself has more content and levity than other posts in this thread

 

[IronMit]

Dorm room people at uni were always 'borrowing' food from the fridge. Milk, eggs, juice...it's pretty difficult to catch someone or sometimes even notice.

This one guy was stealing all our muller yogurts but we could never prove it.
We were pissed. I almost poisoned all my yogurts to see who got really ill....but couldn't find anything to use

 

[MrBenSampson]

This story sounds familiar.

Spoiler

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

Sounds like somebody got the munchies!

But seriously food being stolen at uni unfortuntley is common ground, admitly it's lame as fuck someone went into your room also if the door was unlocked... how do you know they broke in is it possible you left it unlocked? or do you think they pick locked it?

Annnnyway probably best you inform the relevant people, and while your at it you could up the anti, a friend of mine at uni kept having their milk stolen, so i gave them lactulose which your only ment to take in small amounts for severve constipation it's a perscribed laxative. So i poored 1/2 the bottle into a 4 pint of milk container and sure enough the culprit spent the day shitting himself with their ass glued to the toilet. My friends milk didn't get stolen again funnily enough!

I've had that! I bet he spent most of the next day on the loo if you gave him half a bottle!

 

[LarenzoAOG]

This story sounds familiar.

Spoiler

That's preposterous, there wasn't a single kicked door in my account.