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Post by Polarengineer on Feb 3, 2022 10:05:27 GMT 1
Reported in a local paper here in 23 a middle aged couple of DIYers tried to get through the checkout of a brico near or in Limouges with a big boxed WC set, but the cashier did not like the way the box was sealed and discovered it filled with electrical gear and other stuff worth about €800 and no WC. I wonder if they were newly arrived P&O builders, or French fed up with the cost of living. I find tealeafing just not on.
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Post by Nifty on Feb 3, 2022 10:16:35 GMT 1
Kicks for free ?
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Post by pcpa on Feb 3, 2022 10:23:45 GMT 1
What purpose does speculating about the nationality of a thief serve?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 10:44:20 GMT 1
Reported in a local paper here in 23 a middle aged couple of DIYers tried to get through the checkout of a brico near or in Limouges with a big boxed WC set, but the cashier did not like the way the box was sealed and discovered it filled with electrical gear and other stuff worth about €800 and no WC. I wonder if they were newly arrived P&O builders, or French fed up with the cost of living. I find tealeafing just not on. Most brico stores open the box to inspect that there is no damage before it leaves the store so they were lucky not to get caught that way.
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Post by curtis on Feb 3, 2022 11:21:55 GMT 1
What purpose does speculating about the nationality of a thief serve? I'm sure the reporter would have seized on the opportunity to mention it if the culprits were étrangers. Anyway, a thief's a thief.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 11:30:27 GMT 1
Reported in a local paper here in 23 a middle aged couple of DIYers tried to get through the checkout of a brico near or in Limouges with a big boxed WC set, but the cashier did not like the way the box was sealed and discovered it filled with electrical gear and other stuff worth about €800 and no WC. I wonder if they were newly arrived P&O builders, or French fed up with the cost of living. I find tealeafing just not on. You won't be stealing the idea then? 🤣 It's a big haul so quite possibly not the first time they've done it.
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Post by Aardvark on Feb 3, 2022 11:32:50 GMT 1
I accompanied clients to a brico to purchase a WC. We went through the checkout uninspected and while loading the car I started opening the sealed box when the client tried to stop me. I continued and when he saw a whacking great chip in the edge of the toilet pan the expression on his face was epic. This particular brico was an hour from home and when the fact that I had found the defect while still in the car park sank in he thanked me for the insight. But then the real hassle began when we got back inside. Dealing with the Rottweiler at the SAV counter was a real Spanish Inquisition. It took a stack of paperwork and more time to get sorted than to buy the original piece.
Then there was the time at a different brico, just down the road from that one. I was buying heavy duty plastic crates for a house move. Trying to select eight crates from a stack that had been stacked for (probably weeks or more) looked to be a real hassle because they were stuck together. So I counted up and took a whole stack of 12 just for convenience. I got to the checkout and the cashier insisted on looking inside every single crate. By then I was a little fed up so I just stood back and let her struggle. Every single one removed with much struggling and muttering in French. I headed for the car park with my booty wondering why are cashiers so suspicious.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 3, 2022 11:49:14 GMT 1
I have had the same experience with clear plastic crates!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 12:17:35 GMT 1
I think the dopiest thing I've seen is when I went to buy 5 plastic buckets. There were three within reach and around eight or ten stacked on the top shelf away out of reach, so I asked for help. First the lad asked why I couldn't take the others on the floor. They were rubber and 3 times the price. So he gets the access steps climbs up and struggles to take two from the pile. When he was finished I explained that if it was me, I would have brought the pile down to within reach for the following customers. He was visibly annoyed but he went back up and retrieved them. Another customer waiting for assistance was more annoyed with me than with Dopey. I love people, they amuse me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 14:19:39 GMT 1
I think the dopiest thing I've seen is when I went to buy 5 plastic buckets. There were three within reach and around eight or ten stacked on the top shelf away out of reach, so I asked for help. First the lad asked why I couldn't take the others on the floor. They were rubber and 3 times the price. So he gets the access steps climbs up and struggles to take two from the pile. When he was finished I explained that if it was me, I would have brought the pile down to within reach for the following customers. He was visibly annoyed but he went back up and retrieved them. Another customer waiting for assistance was more annoyed with me than with Dopey. I love people, they amuse me. Dopiest thing you can not beat me im a pro. Before I became a pro builder I bought a trailer and hooked it up to my mitsubushi spacestar went to Mr bricolage in Limoges and loaded it up with toilets cannot remeber how many or what I was wearing but by the time I had driven the hour and a half home they had all been destroyed from being in the trailer. I did take them back though. Beat that one
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Post by ibis on Feb 3, 2022 14:38:08 GMT 1
I think the dopiest thing I've seen is when I went to buy 5 plastic buckets. There were three within reach and around eight or ten stacked on the top shelf away out of reach, so I asked for help. First the lad asked why I couldn't take the others on the floor. They were rubber and 3 times the price. So he gets the access steps climbs up and struggles to take two from the pile. When he was finished I explained that if it was me, I would have brought the pile down to within reach for the following customers. He was visibly annoyed but he went back up and retrieved them. Another customer waiting for assistance was more annoyed with me than with Dopey. I love people, they amuse me. Dopiest thing you can not beat me im a pro. Before I became a pro builder I bought a trailer and hooked it up to my mitsubushi spacestar went to Mr bricolage in Limoges and loaded it up with toilets cannot remeber how many or what I was wearing but by the time I had driven the hour and a half home they had all been destroyed from being in the trailer. I did take them back though. Beat that one For the first time you have said something sensible funny.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 3, 2022 15:17:42 GMT 1
Where does the "money for nothing" in the title come into the picture?
Was it reported that they were intending selling the items or stealing them to order?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 17:59:10 GMT 1
Money for nothing and his trucs for free. Les Straits Dire.
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Post by Polarengineer on Feb 3, 2022 18:35:37 GMT 1
What purpose does speculating about the nationality of a thief serve? Could have been American
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Post by Polarengineer on Feb 3, 2022 18:44:53 GMT 1
Where does the "money for nothing" in the title come into the picture? Was it reported that they were intending selling the items or stealing them to order? That's not workin. Look at them faggots, money for nothing and your chicks for free etc. you are so unhip, it's a wonder your legs don't fall off. (Ta DA).
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