To Catch a Lunch Thief

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  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
    Simple fix.

    Make 2 almost identical lunches. add an excess amount of laxatives into what ever you are "having" - ideally mix it into a spread or dipping sauce. Talk heavily about how good it was the other day and cannot wait to eat it again. Keep the real meal at your desk. the other free for all.

    Wait for it.............
  • gromithere
    gromithere Posts: 172 Member
    moldy-bag.jpg

    Try this. :wink:
  • Enigmatica
    Enigmatica Posts: 879 Member
    We suspected the cleaning people of raiding our breakroom. I set up spycams. This is what *I* got: http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg488/enigmati/Thieves/?action=view&current=Thieves.mp4

    They got: FIRED.

    That video was awesome. My favorite part was towards the end when she tried to "rearrange" the chips so that it looked like none were missing.

    Wish I had video of the look on their company owners' and our landlord's faces when they came into the office and watched the video, lol. All of those cleaning people have to sign an agreement NOT to take anything, including food, office supplies, etc, from the offices. It would have been different if they had ever asked if they could have something but you can't let this stuff go on or who knows what else could go missing... ugh.
  • xHelloQuincyx
    xHelloQuincyx Posts: 884 Member
    they make thief proof lunch bags with 'mold' on the outside haha

    take a picture of you licking the lunch and put it on the lunch :] thats what my brother does at work. it was even better because they were oreos and he put the picture under the oreos after the people stole a segment of them. never touched his stuff again haha
  • JPod279
    JPod279 Posts: 722 Member
    Yes, something with ghost chilis hidden in it would be the best way to put a stop to it. Make sure they can't smell the chilis though. They will be the ones :sad:
  • leahsevilla
    leahsevilla Posts: 127 Member
    ooo that's sucks they got fired. i always feel bad for people who steal food...because maybe they don't have enough money for their own, ya know? but i also don't have enough money for mine so it sucks either way.
  • bmreed0920
    bmreed0920 Posts: 139 Member
    I have enjoyed watching people eat my cat food sandwich before. It was very interesting to see how much the really liked it. The other thing I have done was use invisible ink on my lunch and used a black light to target the lunch taker. It works best if you "forget" you brought your lunch and eat out that day and put it in a spot not everyone will touch it.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    One time, one of the managers was b!tching to one of my coworkers (a friend of mine) about someone taking things that were not theirs out of the fridge. While this conversation was going on, the manager pulled my parmesan container out of the fridge and shook about half the container onto her spaghetti.

    :indifferent:

    I loved that parmesan.
  • Daizy426
    Daizy426 Posts: 37 Member
    Get some "trick" candy or gum, the stuff that turns your teeth blue for a long time. Work it into the lunch, lmao, keep a camera handy, that would be great to see!!
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    We have had a few at work. The most extreme.
    We had a suspicion that someone in particular was stealing Gatorade bottles that even had the owners name written on it.

    So the Gatorade purchaser. Grabbed an empty bottle, urinated in it about half way stuck food coloring and mixed a little lemon lime Gatorade enough to just give it a feint smell.

    Bottle was gone....Bottle was not found ... but suddenly Gatorade was no longer being stolen... the person everyone thought was doing it called off the next morning... strange...
  • GasMasterFlash
    GasMasterFlash Posts: 2,206 Member
    One time, one of the managers was b!tching to one of my coworkers (a friend of mine) about someone taking things that were not theirs out of the fridge. While this conversation was going on, the manager pulled my parmesan container out of the fridge and shook about half the container onto her spaghetti.

    :indifferent:

    I loved that parmesan.
    The ****?! That ****'s 'spensive too. :mad:
  • Amaywil
    Amaywil Posts: 44
    What about Ghost Pepper LoL . That will teach them :-0
  • mistyladidah
    mistyladidah Posts: 210 Member
    Prank powder seems like a pretty perfect way to go... no physical harm, it'd be hard to hide a foaming, blue stained mouth so you catch the bum... and humiliation is always theraputic. ;)
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    Prank powder seems like a pretty perfect way to go... no physical harm, it'd be hard to hide a foaming, blue stained mouth so you catch the bum... and humiliation is always theraputic. ;)

    This day and age the one that got humiliated will sue for it, saying they have an eating disorder and social anxiety disorder and they are permanently scarred for life now...

    Most of the time its the cleaning crew or other shift workers. Most people dont have the balls to steal it in real time.
  • laceylou0702
    laceylou0702 Posts: 226 Member
    Bring a catfood sandwich. That's a big fat fawk you.

    ^^THIS^^
  • melinda200208
    melinda200208 Posts: 525 Member
    One day I got a Snickers ice cream bar with my lunch. I put it in the freezer and decided to be good and not eat all my "bad food" in one day. The next day I was excited to eat all that goodness......went into the freezer.....and it was gone! It was bittersweet. I was glad it went into someone else's stomach! Less I had to burn off. Then I went and ate a healthy snack ;) But boy I wasn't super happy about it. I can't believe someone would eat someone else's food. :/
  • TeresaWash
    TeresaWash Posts: 283
    We had someone using one of the girls coffee creamer. We wrote "breast milk" on it. It never happened again!
  • AZnewme
    AZnewme Posts: 228 Member
    My mother had that problem once apoun a time (the thief would just take the sandwich) so she made a sandwich out of dogfood! Never lost another one! Couldn't believe my sweet, loves everyone type personality mom would do that, but she did!
  • sherrirb
    sherrirb Posts: 1,649 Member
    If you are sabotaging your OWN lunch and someone else eats it without your consent or knowledge, you cannot be held responsible.

    Nuff said.
  • Jessamine
    Jessamine Posts: 226 Member
    If you are sabotaging your OWN lunch and someone else eats it without your consent or knowledge, you cannot be held responsible.

    Nuff said.

    I couldn't agree more.
  • Jessamine
    Jessamine Posts: 226 Member
    I had a terrible time keeping people from using my coffee creamer. I had to stop bringing it into work and had my coffee at home instead. Buying my favorite creamer for my office mates was too expensive. :-/

    I'm not aware of any food thieves in my current office. We have one lady who will LOSE IT if someone leaves the tiniest bit of food splatter in the microwave.
  • jjelizalde
    jjelizalde Posts: 377 Member
    I had a terrible time keeping people from using my coffee creamer. I had to stop bringing it into work and had my coffee at home instead. Buying my favorite creamer for my office mates was too expensive. :-/

    I'm not aware of any food thieves in my current office. We have one lady who will LOSE IT if someone leaves the tiniest bit of food splatter in the microwave.

    Post a sign that says "Made with breast milk". It won't be going anywhere anytime soon!
  • marie_2454
    marie_2454 Posts: 881 Member
    As another posted mentioned, bodily harm (i.e. super hot sauce)is probably not the best way to go. Thankfully, I've never had this problem, but if I did I always envisioned that I would make sandwiches with prank powder in them.
    Something like this:
    Ultimate Unicorn Sprinkles is blue, but tastes like green apple. It's the atom bomb of this set - the "Ultimate": it is super sour, foams up, and stains your victim's mouth blue.

    You can get it here:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/d799/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&CJID=2617611

    I like this idea! Lol I work for the USPS and we had problems with people stealing lunches and they actually started making announcements reminding people that it is a federal crime and they would be charged. The problem pretty much stopped after that lol.
  • hollyk57
    hollyk57 Posts: 520 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FN7pu-huU

    This outta do it....
  • jjelizalde
    jjelizalde Posts: 377 Member
    moldy-bag.jpg

    Try this. :wink:

    I saw this one but couldn't figure out how to post the picture. Love it!
  • allifantastical
    allifantastical Posts: 946 Member
    We suspected the cleaning people of raiding our breakroom. I set up spycams. This is what *I* got: http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg488/enigmati/Thieves/?action=view&current=Thieves.mp4

    They got: FIRED.

    Omg...I wonder what they are saying.
  • BlueInkDot
    BlueInkDot Posts: 702 Member
    I feel bad. One time I got a salad from the cafeteria, and when I came back up to my floor's kitchen, I checked the fridge and someone had thrown out the rest of my homemade salad dressing. It looks kind of gross and I keep it in a recycled bottle, so I guess I can understand why someone threw it out... but I was pretty bummed.

    Then I saw some other salad dressing in the fridge - I only put like a tablespoon on my salad so that my salad would at least be palateable, and there was plenty of dressing left, and I've never done it since! But I feel bad now. :(

    #sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry
  • kmgarza
    kmgarza Posts: 31
    At my job we have 4 frigs located throughout the firm. My department (8 of us in my department) is real big on birthdays, so when it is someones birthday in the department, we all chip in to get them a cake & a birthday card. Well this one time I put the cake in the frig, still inside the plastic grocery bag with a paper taped to the bag; written on the paper was the department name and date (H&H 07/13). After lunch I went to the frig to get the cake, I took it out the plastic..............someone had helped themselves to slice of cake...........from the middle of the cake!!!!!!!
  • kmgarza
    kmgarza Posts: 31
    I feel bad. One time I got a salad from the cafeteria, and when I came back up to my floor's kitchen, I checked the fridge and someone had thrown out the rest of my homemade salad dressing. It looks kind of gross and I keep it in a recycled bottle, so I guess I can understand why someone threw it out... but I was pretty bummed.

    Then I saw some other salad dressing in the fridge - I only put like a tablespoon on my salad so that my salad would at least be palateable, and there was plenty of dressing left, and I've never done it since! But I feel bad now. :(

    #sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry


    At least you only took a tablespoon & made sure there was plenty left. I have gone to the frig to get my dressing to find the bottle completely empty......its like THANKS, you could of done me a favor & just thrown the bottle away since you took/used all my dressing LOL:tongue:
  • michelleepotter
    michelleepotter Posts: 800 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FN7pu-huU

    This outta do it....

    Wow, I want one of those! Stop my kids from finishing off all of their yogurt and then going after mine!

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