The Tool Thief - the lowest form of life.
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There used to be a van near me with a notice on the back welcoming graffiti but asking folks to please keep the paint off the windows.
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I knew a researcher at ANSTO who freely abused the “radioactive contamination” warning stickers in order to stop people from borrowing her calculator and pens.
Something of a boy-who-cried-wolf issue with that one.
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Ha! I would have added some glow in the dark tape to the pens!
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I used to hide my expensive subwoofer under a cover with the word “grandmother”. Never got stolen.
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So, a round of applause for the poisoner?
What the heck kind of scientist keeps food and samples in the same fridge? Poor scientist, or psychopathic scientist, is what kind.
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Bad ending to a good story.
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Things like that should always be edible (and not known to be someone’s allergy).
The hottest chilli sauce you can cope with? OK
Peanut Butter? Not OK if you suspect someone has a peanut allergy (even if don’t think it is that person who is stealing the food).
E. Coli? No fucking way.
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I originally wrote a reply explaining the full circumstances. I have been trying to hold my prolixity in check. However, I then realised it would simply come over as post hoc justification and be counter productive. So, rather than do that, I’ve deleted the offending posts.
I am gradually realising it is a mistake to post any of my anecdotes on BB. I’m often referring to events fifty years or so in the past and I realise that the context is unreproducible, which doesn’t help. But I also am increasingly realising that, culturally, the Atlantic has been steadily getting wider since (I suspect) around 2000 and I risk being generally misinterpreted.
So, thank you for your well intentioned responses. (I am not being sarcastic). You’ve persuaded me to keep schtum on incidents in my personal history. I can’t always remember to start a post with “Fifty years ago when things were very different”, and I now get that people today probably don’t want to know this stuff.
And you certainly don’t want my dissertation on food hygiene (or lack of it) in the 1960s, especially as one of you thinks I need to have mansplained to me the significance of the word “organic” in “organic chemistry.”
I, for a profession, clean up toxic messes made 50 years ago.
even 50 years ago spiking food with E Coli and putting it in a public place was assault/poisoning. 1,000 years ago too. “Shit Sandwiches” are not a modern invention. Tricking people into eating them is not new.
It’s not the story that’s the problem. It’s that it wasn’t funny then or now. They had it coming is the refuge of scoundrels and narcissists.
My only problem with your post was that it did seem to laud the person, today, for awful behavior in the past.
Time wounds all heels, sort of thing. I’m not looking to offend you, just explain the tone of my question, which was an honest one. I am glad to know you do not applaud behavior such as poisoning.
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Don’t stop, I was just pointing out it was a arsehole move by the person who did it. I have had immune system suppression before (related to ME or whatever it was that put me in bed for two years) and don’t like the idea that someone could potentially make someone ill as a prank (even if it was extremely unlikely).
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well you know what’s really not worth selling for heroin? Heroin.
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does this imply there might be something worth selling for booze? people in that market can twist logic like a pretzel.
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I didn’t pay enough attention to cars to even notice, but I do remember when those signs were the subject of a doonesbury strip
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