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Taco Thief: What do You Do?

If the guy is clearly homeless and hungry, I'd let him have them. Clearly I have the ability to do something he can't... buy more tacos.
 
My view would be finders keepers. I abandoned the food, someone else found it, lucky him.
 
Henrin said:
I'm not fighting over tacos. They're just tacos and I can buy more.
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Most rational thing you've ever said on this forum.
 
stonewall50 said:
So I was talking by a taco place here to go buy some TP. I saw a guy about 25 or so dressed nicely walk out and set his tacos down. He walked back inside for a second to get his drink and in that time a homeless man snagged them and walked off.

The kid caught him and got his food back. But it got me thinking: what would you do? A clearly homeless guy snags your food and walks off. Same thing as this kid? Or just let him walk off? Report him?

I probably would have caught up to him and gotten my food back and told him I would have bought him food if he asked for it. That is just how I was raised and a man in my church kept a loaf of bread and peanut butter in his truck just for that reason. But idk. How about yall?
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Well, I would not leave food unattended, I would not eat food that was left unattended, I would not chase down someone who took my unattended food and I sure as hell wouldn't eat food I retrieved from a hobo.

I'd buy another round and keep track of my food.
 
BrewerBob said:
No, when comparing tacos to cars it is the cost. :)

There is a spectrum of reaction. If someone tries to steal my tacos, I let it slide. If someone tries to steal my car, I kick their ass and call the cops. If someone tries to steal my child, I kill them.
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Cephus said:
So he steals your car. Why fight over it? It's just a car, you can buy another one.
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I had my car stolen in New Mexico once. I remember watching 4 of them breaking in, rummaging, getting the thing started and driving off while I maintained cover, with an m4 type carbine... I remember going back into the place I was renting and my girlfriend at the time asking me why I didn't shoot them, stop, them or otherwise engage them....

I thought about it for a moment, and basically decided that a car wasn't worth risking my life over. Possessions can be replaced.


Now, if it were a home invasion, that would clearly have been another story.


You have the rest of your life to win a gunfight. Best to avoid them if you can.
 
DiAnna said:
If the guy is clearly homeless and hungry, I'd let him have them. Clearly I have the ability to do something he can't... buy more tacos.
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What if it was some Bro dude in a tank top just being a doosh? ;)
 
I would knock him down and drag him around by his ankle screaming at him that THOSE WERE MY ****ING TACO's!!!
 
I get that the guy is homeless and hungry, but stealing another person's lunch is low, IMO. I've always felt like it was a major asswhoopin' offense. Same-same for office workers stealing from a bag or box of food in the common fridge with my name on it... you SOB, that was my lunch! Maybe I don't have the money or the time to get another, and thanks to you I get to struggle with hunger pangs and low blood sugar the rest of the day.

I tend to despise thieves, period.


If the guy had walked up and ASKED me for one, I'd very likely have given it to him.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
I had my car stolen in New Mexico once. I remember watching 4 of them breaking in, rummaging, getting the thing started and driving off while I maintained cover, with an m4 type carbine... I remember going back into the place I was renting and my girlfriend at the time asking me why I didn't shoot them, stop, them or otherwise engage them....

I thought about it for a moment, and basically decided that a car wasn't worth risking my life over. Possessions can be replaced.


Now, if it were a home invasion, that would clearly have been another story.


You have the rest of your life to win a gunfight. Best to avoid them if you can.
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Depends on how badly you need your vehicle, and how hard it will be to replace it.


I can't afford to let someone steal my truck.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
What if it was some Bro dude in a tank top just being a doosh? ;)
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I'd yell, "**** you, asshole! Gimme my lunch or I'll break your face with my cane!"

... or some variation thereof. :lol:
 
Goshin said:
Depends on how badly you need your vehicle, and how hard it will be to replace it.


I can't afford to let someone steal my truck.
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I couldn't either, really at the time, I just decided the risk to life wasn't worth it.
 
There's no insurance on tacos. I suppose you could file a police report on tacos, but by the time you do so, anonymous wandering dude is digesting the evidence.

If I can catch him, I will. Perhaps he will understand it wasn't just abandoned and give it back. Perhaps not and I'll need to punch the thieving sonuvabitch.

In reality, if you leave something like that lying around, good luck finding the guy who did it and good luck catching him if you do; I'd assume most the time the fella'd be long gone or would wolf down the contents of that bag immediately.
 
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The more aggressive people here missed an obvious choice, I think: return to the same restaurant and when you see the homeless guy approaching quickly lace the tacos with a laxative and go inside.
 
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