This is just bizarre,peoples morals?

[NMbirds]

I have a rather weird philosophy which is that I really do not own anything, even those things I have purchased or to which I have a piece of legal writing (deed, title, etc) and that any possession is merely on loan. When it "disappears" I respond by saying someone needed it more than I did and I either replace it with something similar, less or better, depending, or do without. And finally, I believe we end up with what we have managed to give away. Strange, I know.

 

[sunnychooks]

Several years ago we had a John Deere riding mower for sale out front with a sign on it. Someone stopped and bought it and asked if he could pick it up later. We said sure, put it back on our front lawn (behind our fence) and took the 4 Sale sign off. A little while later my DH saw 2 men loading it into a truck. He went out to stop them and they said they thought we were throwing it out!!! Needless to say, they jumped back into their truck and took off in a hurry!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

OK weird story but true.

Dh believes as you do that things are mostly just things. We've had things stolen from us - all of our porch furniture one night.... but DH is very generous. One day he found a woman stranded on the highway with her three little kids. No husband, no one to help her. He took them home and arranged for another friend to go fix her car. The next night he told me he really wanted this gas powered trimmer he had all picked out but would I mind if he used that money for that family instead? Of course I said yes so he went and bought $300 worth of groceries and left it at her door.

The next day the exact same gas trimmer he wanted literally landed on the road in front of him. Same brand, nearly new. He figured it fell off of some one's truck so he put up posters about it and told the police we had it. No one ever came to claim it. I am sure some one was angry about losing it, but it was sort of like a gift to DH - and he tried to find the owner.....

What goes around comes around.

 

[Chicabee19]

I think theft is the most prevalent of crimes everywhere on earth.

We can see most of the neighborhood from our high deck. Our house is the only one that has not been robbed by a certain meth user over in the next street. Our blind side-neighbor actually sold his house and moved away because the meth user (his nephew) forged a bunch of his checks and stole some collector stamps from him.

Our next door neighbor got a brand new lawnmower from her boyfriend. 2 days later I saw her daughter and a bunch of her friends drive up and throw it into the back of a pickup truck and drive off.

A year or so later, that same neighbor got a brand new expensive sprinkler. A few days later while it was watering the lawn I saw her daughter unscrew it from the end of the hose and drive off with it.

We never told the neighbor it was her own daughter. We thought about it for a long time, but in the end we decided it wasn't worth the risk getting between them since the neighbor was already a difficult person.

The universe is very giving. It will give back what you give out and will bring you whatever you claim from it, good or bad! What you think and what you speak become.

 

[MagsC]

I like the idea that things are just things.
That said,yes, what goes around comes around. Maybe I am behind in the times but I was always taught to ask first if I wanted/needed something.
I suppose people who just "take" have the philosophy that they are getting one over on someone else, when everything comes due in the end. At least thats my understanding of it!

 

[Stumpy]

I once lived in an apartment complex, and the week before I moved out someone stole a ficas plant that I'd had for years from the porch.

 

[HenSpa]

Don't put it past our four-legged friends as possible perp of this crime! A lab or retriever could make away with a rake easily. I've known dogs to take strange things...bags of nails, boots, an timed cat feeder, a soft igloo, etc. Some dogs are just kleptos. We had one that took random things from our neighbors when I was growing up. We'd have to figure out who they belonged to and return them...at night, preferably.

 

[MagsC]

I have definitely considered this as well. I just cant figure how, if it was a dog, it got the rake over the dog fence, especially without causing commotion. I suppose stranger things have happened though!

 

[geareduplyn]

This spring I stopped at the local auction after just feeding my bees. I carry my sugar syrup in five gallon plastic gasoline cans. Anyway I had about 3 gallons left in one of the cans in the rear row next to the tailgate. When I got home from the auction and unloaded the cans all were empty. I wonder how far the guy got with 10 pounds of sugar and 21/2 gallons of water after it was poured in a fuel tank? This thief outfoxed himself.

 

[Ginger Chic]

Quote:
Yeah... When Dash lived in LA before we were married he had his whites stolen out of the dryer at the laundromat. The facility was somewhat of a duplex with a beer joint next door. He'd started 2 loads of wash (whites & darks), had a "cold one", moved the loads to the dryers, and had 1 or 2 more "cold ones"... Imagine coming back to no whites (aka undershirts, boxers and socks). Who steals underwear?????

Hint to thieves... next time take the Polo golf shirts.