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Appropriating Nutritive Consumables and Absconding

Appropriating Nutritive Consumables and Absconding
Would you like to empower yourself and take the initiative to stop dolling out so much money? Would you like to know the art of supplementing your dietary intake by participating in no-cost food re-harvesting in a retail environment?

As organisms, we humans all experience those inconvenient hunger pangs from time to time. When we do, it is a great luxury to be able to inundate our gullets with nutritious food products like a bunch of geese being reared for pate'. Unfortunately the machinations of the world economy often render food quite "spendy". Food stamps are very good, but the application process seems almost punitive. That's why many people actively participate in "food re-harvesting". If you have ever appropriated and absconded with food, freshly plucked from the shelves our vast and conveniently located network of retail macro-warehouses, then you have participated in food re-harvesting. If you find that it is difficult to afford breakfast, lunch and dinner in your squalid and penniless existence and you have not yet evaluated appropriating and absconding as a possible option to relieve pressure on your dessicated, vestigial wallet, then read on.
 
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Step 1Evaluate the Benefits and Risks

Evaluate the Benefits and Risks
Are you hungry but short on cash? Does food seem to you to be quite expensive indeed? Why, Then Just appropriate the food and vanquish your hunger thus!

But keep in mind that not everyone thinks that you should be able to abscond freely with the goods you appropriated, and they may want to stop you. Some of them are inextricably linked to the retail industry through employment. see figure "Industry" and note the horrible lolling eyes and minuscule nose of the beast of industry. These features render it incapable of smelling or otherwise noticing the volume and toxicity of its own waste. Also note the huge maw of the beast, perfect for devouring your livelihood.

With some instruction in technique and precautions, however, one can greatly assuage the risks.
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19 comments
Dec 13, 2010. 6:15 PMautokymatic says:
corporations get away with worse everyday, and our gov't yields to it all the time, and in many cases protects the organized crime of corporations.

kudos, Mr. Dogsbody.

i was homeless, and jobless, and fending for myself and 4 others in my situation. i foraged, rummaged, dumpster dived, and went to food drives, but you bet your a$$ i had a few liberties in Walmart without a ping of my conscience.
Aug 22, 2010. 8:47 PMLokisgodhi says:
Not to condone stealing but, if the store has a buffet section, you could always fix yourself a nice meal of finger food type things and then go shopping and snack on it while 'shopping'. You could easily lighten the container by half or three-quarters.
Jul 13, 2009. 7:03 PMthreadbare says:
This instuctable was a bummer. I don't care what you call it. Stealing is stealing. I hitch hiked for a year and lived out of a VW bus for a year and never resorted to stealing. Dumpster diveing...yes, getting left overs from restaurants...yes, stealing no. I wouldn't steal from you, bummer you would steal from them.
Jun 20, 2009. 2:48 PMthepelton says:
If you want to eat food without running the risk of having it slid through a hole in the jail cell door, try this book: "Best Tasting Edible Wild Plants of the Rocky Mountains" by Bob Seebeck. Don't call me for your one phone call.
Jun 7, 2009. 3:37 PMBardouv says:
I like it. I miss the not liable section. It's called the offbeat section now. I guess people's views change...oh well.
Mar 29, 2009. 6:40 PMgreenjedi says:
I've flagged this instructable. I encourage you all to do the same. Shoplifting? really? I'm penniless and cheap, but i've never resorted to stealing.
Mar 18, 2009. 4:42 PMkrowii says:
Seriously? An instructable about stealing?
Mar 12, 2009. 9:22 AMriku-riku-chan says:
this looks an awful lot like a college i attended... familiar hallways.
Mar 7, 2009. 1:52 PMbeatyruth says:
Tch, tch, you know most stores have electronic surveillance or mirrors up. You didn't even mention those! While many stores don't have all their cameras on, just enough to fool most of the public, you can tell by the beady little red light if they are on. Mirrors are not so easy to fool. And "Loss Prevention Specialists" can be soooo unpleasant abut someone appropriating their company's goods.
Feb 27, 2009. 4:32 AMnruegs says:
I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the surreal expression on the cashier's face in the picture for step 6 suggests that this was instructable was does not accurately reflect what happened in the store.
Feb 26, 2009. 7:07 AMtecneeq says:
So you are basically saying to steal in shops? I believe this is somewhat lame.
Feb 26, 2009. 6:50 AMDandeman321 says:
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Feb 26, 2009. 6:47 AMKaelessin says:
Nicely done! I love the way this was presented!
Feb 26, 2009. 3:37 AMScubabubba says:
All that effort in the writing, and you didn't bother to rotate the pictures? What is the world coming to . . .
Feb 26, 2009. 6:47 AMKaelessin says:
lol I thought it lent some wackiness to an otherwise very seriously toned article . . .
Feb 26, 2009. 4:01 AMfunbob says:
Artistic license :)

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