Someone is stealing my lunch...

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I'm a PA resident but working in NC so I live in a hotel. It has a refrigerator but no freezer, so I buy frozen dinners and store them in the breakroom freezer at work. No big deal. Everyone does that. I've done that for the last 5 years in previous jobs in NY, UT, and MD. Never been a problem.

Til now.

Over the weekend, some idiot keeps helping himself to a free dinner... MY dinner. I put a sign there that says "**** Farfel's Dinner...Hands Off", but the idiot ignored the sign and stole a *2nd* dinner from me.

$5 lost.

Grrr. Why do people have to be dishonest?!?!? Like I said, I've done this the last 5 years and no food was ever stolen until now. Now I gotta figure out how to buy & store my frozen dinners.

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Since I'm one to hold a grudge, I left the last frozen dinner there. I'm sure the weekend thief will help himself again. BUT this time the dinner was thawed for 2 days, and refrozen.

Maybe a good dose of food poisoning will teach the thief a lesson.
 
hahahaha i was going to suggest somthing like that. but then the thief might exact revenge on you in the same nammer.
be carefull theres alot worse things than food poisoning.
 
Best would be to buy some choclate ex lax and label it your candy and I bet your lunches wont disappear anymore.

Dan
 
A guy I worked with had the same problem for a while. The only difference was that his lunches were in the fridge, not the freezer. He solved the problem by frying up some chicken in mineral oil (also sold as "intestinal lubricant").
 
Who works on the weekend? Cleaning crew? Security guard? There's got to be some avenue for someone to let someone know that someone is stealing food from the fridge/freezer.

I never quite figured out what upbringing people had that allowed them to do this type of stuff. What can possibly make that work in their head is beyond me. I had a friend in my youth that used to basically attempt to get away with anything he could. His favorite statement was "they didn't say nothin'". If you're doing something lame ...someone shouldn't have to say anything ..it's lame ..don't do it. Based on this level of antisocial rational, I often prefaced any conditions that I stated with anyone (tenant, etc.) with "Oh ...and just before anything comes up ...the term "well he didn't say nothin', means ..your doing something that I don't want you to do ..so try and get it out of your head right now. If you can't do exactly as I ask now ..take a hike. If you feel the need for a modification to my conditions ..talk to me ahead of time as I'll see if I can help you out. But as of right now ...the answer is NO ahead of time."
 
Stick a dogsh*t sandwich in the fridge.

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There is just something fundamentally wrong with someone who would steal a frozen dinner.

I would leave it out for a full week then refreeze it.
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Has anyone heard the stolen fried bologna/foreskin sandwich story?
 
You aren't accidentally victim of a weekly clean-out-the-fridge policy, right?

I work in a control room for four ten-hour shifts per week, and ABSOLUTELY cannot leave the building for lunch. Have had food stolen and it REALLY makes me mad, since the rest of my coworkers can actually punch out and go retrieve emergency food from a restaurant. My options are a candy machine and expensive pizza delivery if I suffer a lunch malfunction. You have my sympathy.

We have all kinds: The type who will remove someone else's bag from the lettuce crisper since it's "his" hiding place, the spoon-from-the-dish-drainer thief, the coffee mug non-washer...

My solution is to drink from a 2-liter soda bottle; when I first open one I backwash a bit and consider it preventative revenge. Homemade food leftovers have never been pilfered from me; hard for you and the hotel life though.

If you look in the ethnic section of your supermarket you can find some seriously whacked food: Rice soda, Goya this and that. Diversion...

Make meat loaf with some buckshot and fur in there; it'll leave people wondering where the "meat" came from.
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I work as a career firefighter and have seen many different scenarios such as this. Thursday is Kitchen day at every firehouse and anything that isn't labeled get's trashed. Each shift will label A,B,C respectively.

1) One station had a persistant ice cream thief (ice cream is very sacred in a firehouse). They bought some ice cream with chocolate shavings. They then shaved some Chocolate EX LAX and mixed it with the ice cream. That stopped the ice cream thief.

2) Another station had a real moocher. Didn't matter what it was. They brought some hot dogs in and left them out for the entire 24 hour shift and put them in the fridge labeled. That FF went home about 2 hours after lunch spewing from both ends.

3) The best...and worst. One guy would buy a gallon of milk, label it and use it every shift for his cereal. It was always just about gone the next shift, used for all different stuff. While we were watching, he took the lid off, took out his "tool" and run it down in and all around the lid opening, recapped and left it in the fridge labeled. Came in the next shift and it was gone. I just about puked.
 
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Originally posted by eljefino:
You aren't accidentally victim of a weekly clean-out-the-fridge policy, right?
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Nope. They left the other frozen dinners... just took one... and left the empty box.
 
Thaw out a frozen chilli dinner, add a bit of your "own chilli"
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then refreeze and let them have that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Double the food poisening
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We constantly have problems with the moochers in the "community" fridges. I have adopted a "better living through chemistry" plan using guidance from the Poorman's James Bond, Anarchist Cookbook, and several of the George Hayduke books on revenge. Palladin Press also offers a really neat "chemistry set" to set up your mark's food. My favorite is a liquid that is added to either food or drink that causes uncontrollable flatulence approx. 10 minutes after ingesting. The unimaginative folks just rely on differing uses of their OC spray but I prefer something more sinister and rewarding
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Take a lightbulb and crush it very finely, thaw out the dinner-put the glass in and refreeze it. Wait I was only kidding
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Thats what you do to get rid of stray dogs
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A guy I worked with had the same problem for a while. The only difference was that his lunches were in the fridge, not the freezer. He solved the problem by frying up some chicken in mineral oil (also sold as "intestinal lubricant").
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THAT IS FREAKIN AWESOME.

It's too bad I didn't think of it.
 
He didn't eat it!

Darn.

I left it out for 16 hours so it gets nice & poisonous, but he didn't fall for the trap. Rats.
 
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