by Crimethinc. Workers' Collective
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At office supply stores with self-serve copiers, you can steal books, paper, or large flat items. Bring a backpack wdth some of your own books from home. Nonchalantly bring items you are going to steal over to the copy machines. Spend some time making photocopies from your books. When no one is watching, slide items between the books and into your backpack. Pay for the copies and leave the store.
If you have a cell phone, use it as a prop. Arrange to get a call while you are in line for the register vidth everything you need in a hand basket. Clamping one ear to the phone and the other hand over your other ear, stomp outside for some peace and quiet, perhaps forgetfully toting your basket along. Outside, finish your conversation, and, if no one has followed you, get into your BMW and drive off. If you are followed, it's cool, you just need to finish this call?Jeeeez!
You can ask prudish employees about specific brands of "embarrassing" commodities; afterwards they may avoid you. Better yet, find an employee and ask for assistance v^th something perfectly ordinary. With the employee close by looking at the shelf or leading you to the location, you vidll be less monitored by security guards and other employees. Use this opportunity to conceal items.
A couple can pose as distracted lovers, giggling, making out, and fondfing in a way that makes people embarrassed to watch, and take advantage of this embarrassment to grope products into place inside each other's clothes.
This one's good for stores with two exits, or at busy times: get a few bags from the trash with the store's name on them, and fill them up in the comer of the store some-
where. Have a receipt of some sort in your hand with a few bills and coins. Scrutinize the receipt and count your change while casually walking out.
Since women often have handbags, it's easy to walk in a store with a bag in the front of Concealing the cart and fill it up with items. Keep in mind, though, that if you are suspected any bag on your person will be the first thing searched.
A clipboard is a scary accessory used by authority figures. People treat me differently when I carry a clipboard, no matter what I'm up to! In a store, a clipboard can be very use-fijd; clip a shopping list to it for a pretext. Security cameras are usually up high; carry the clipboard in a way that allows you to remove packaging and magnetic strips in its shadow. Position the cHpboard as if you are scrutinizing your list, while you slip something into your pants or under your arm. Conceal flat items under the cHpboard; you can grip both with one hand and either exit the store or go through the line with an inexpensive product.
To open and remove heavy-duty packaging unobtrusively, tape a razor blade or X-acto knife tip to the end of your finger, with the blade just barely out; it should look like you are wearing a bandage over a minor injury.
Take in a stroller with you with a child or two in it?the bigger the stroller, the better. Shop with a store handbasket on your arm while pushing the stroller and quietly filling its compartments.
Install a zippered opening on the side of your backpack that lies against your back; this can be perfect for secreting items. You can steal zippers from craft stores; get a quiet, smooth-moving one.
Cargo pockets can provide good hiding spots, but there are a thousand other options. Tuck in the bottom of your shirt and slide things through your collar; while wearing a ^, ..^. baggy hooded sweatshirt, suck in your stomach and slide flat items halfway into your 481
You can go to a corporate coffee shop
around noon, insisting angrily that
when you stopped by that morning
to pick up coffee for everyone at your
workplace, you asked for soymilk in
the coffee-?and didn't discover they'd
given you real milk until you arrived at
work with the twelve coffees.
pants, using the elastic of your underwear and the waist of your pants to hold them in place; put stuff in your sock while bending down to tie your shoe; slide items down the sleeves of puffy jackets with tight cuffs; slip small items into an opaque water botde with a wide mouth; cut a hole in the bottom of a jacket pocket so you can slip larger items through into the lining; sew extra pockets into your clothes. If you wear a coat or sweatshirt that zips up in front, you can slip small items inside the coat and press them under your arm with lightning quickness.
You don't have to conceal items to steal them?sometimes it works better to walk right out like you own them. In a grocery store, there may be a side door you can roll your full cart through and into the parking lot.
