<p>Okay I finally have a reason to start a thread on this forum. Last night someone stole my food from the communal freezer. I'm not so much concerned about the box of chicken strips and pizza pockets or the fifteen dollars it was worth, it's the trouble I go though to get groceries (walking to and from the store, taking up a lot of my time). And stealing someone's food is just so greasy. One or two missing pizza pockets I could live with but a whole box of unopened chicken strips and another unopened box of pizza pockets, common now. I bought these things last night and someone took them only hours later. There was a group of drunk ppl making a pile of noise around 2 or 3am this morning, I'm assuming it was them.</p>
<p>There are no video cameras in the kitchen or halls and I don't know half the people on my floor, especially the drunk foreigners that get loaded every night. The people that stole them will not be caught. So I don't see a point in telling the RA or anything like that. </p>
<p>The way I see it I have two options, put up a note in the kitchen warning others about these greasy individuals and in this note try to tear apart and make whoever did it feel guilty. The other option would be to buy a new box of pizza pockets and either let them sit out for a week or put something in them (a massive dose of crushed up laxatives perhaps), reseal them and put them in the freezer hoping the same people will steal them again. I think if I put something like pizza pockets in the freezer again they will likely be stolen again by the drunk ****s looking for something to eat at 3am.</p>
<p>I just want to get a message across, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>That’s what I’m thinking. And just the way pizza pockets are you could easily cut a little hole to put stuff in them and reseal the bag/box. But I want them to get eaten, so I need something that isn’t going to taste awful. Do laxatives taste bad? Any other ideas what I could do to them that would make the person sick and miserable but preferably not kill them lol.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t lace the food with anything. If they just got sick it might be funny but you never know how something could effect a particular person, and I assume you don’t want to actually hurt someone over stolen chicken fingers.</p>
<p>I once went to feed laxative laced cupcakes to an ex only to discover that laxatives can cause severe abdominal pain and rectal bleeding, which seemed a punishment disproportionate to the crime. Plus you never know about drug allergies or how anything you give them may react to something they may already be taking. Just not worth the risk, and in this world lord knows you could probably get in trouble if someone gets sick eating something they stole from you.</p>
<p>This is why you don’t use communal freezers.</p>
<p>I agree with Emaheevul- the person could react in a way you didn’t expect. You’re not a doctor.</p>
<p>Yes, they were “greasy individuals” for stealing your food. But you have no place potentially harming someone over something as pathetic as this.</p>
<p>I appreciate your good hearted warning, I do, but it just drives me insane that these people will get away with this. I know its only chicken fingers and pizza pockets but I don’t know, it’s just the thought of lugging these heavy groceries all the way home (its about a 15 min walk) just to have some drunk punk steal them, it gets to me. Severe abdominal pain and rectal bleeding sounds great at this point actually. As for the extremely small chance they will have an allergic reaction and die, I’m willing to roll the dice.</p>
<p>The chances of it going wrong are probably the same as you allowing someone to cross the street without a cross guard, willing to risk him getting hit by a bus. Lighten up man jesus.</p>
<p>^^Agreed. There has got to be a better way to handle this. I would start with posting a note, and advance from there if it happens again. Are you not allowed your own mini-fridge?</p>
<p>I would be furious to the point of feeling ill if this happened to me, it’s not that I am not sympathetic, but I can’t help but think that any reasonable person would feel sheepish later if someone actually got hurt. This is one of those things that people do because they’re kids and they don’t consider the possible consequences thoroughly enough, and then when the prank goes bad they look like *******s. You don’t want to give anyone a reason to dislike you instead of the food stealers.</p>
<p>ETA: you<em>of</em>eh, that’s not even true. Have you ever actually done any research about the prevalence of unpleasant side effects for laxatives? Because of the aforementioned cupcake incident (<em>ahem</em>), I have. There is a pretty reasonable chance someone could experience a bit more than OP bargained for. Chances are as slim as you say that someone is going to die, but severe pain is not uncommon. And I would wonder about the risk of dehydration when mixing laxatives with alcohol if these are the drunken losers OP suspects they are.</p>
File a complaint with the RA, try to get cameras installed, get a private mini freezer, hide them in frozen spinach boxes, leave a note, do something other than attempting to hurt others.</p>
<p>You could put extremely hot peppers in the pizza, that way it wouldn’t be obvious. Or you could get some fox pee, stick it in the bag, reseal it. That way people would get really sick when they opened the bag. I get where you’re coming from though. People are rude, you have to keep anything you value in your room. The only way they will stop stealing is if there are consequences, and the ra isn’t going to put a camera in the kitchen. You could put that stuff that you are supposed to drink if you need to puke in them, that would be pretty funny. It’s ipacic or something. Honestly, if someone steals anything of yours, and something happens, I have no sympathy. Sadly, the litigation society doesn’t think that way. I doubt anyone would get injured. There was a case when a robber sued a family because while trying to break into their house he fell through the ceiling. Even though something is your property, you can be held acountable for negligence. The chances of that happening can’t be high. A note won’t do anything, they’ll just think you’re whining. The ra won’t do anything beyond reminding people to be respectful. I would either leave the bag open or put it in a ziploc freezer bag so they can at least know it was opened. If they know it’s been opened and still eat it, they’re idiots. Seriously it would be so funny.</p>
<p>put some plastic cockroaches or insects inside so that they’re touching the actual food.
or take some of your own hair and scatter it around lol</p>
<p>lol yeah that’s what I’m thinking. The fact that they’ll be drunk and it’ll be scalding hot I could probably get away with putting a lot of things in there.</p>
<p>Dump a tablespoon of salt inside each one. If they’re eating pizza pockets, they obviously don’t have a medical issue with sodium intake. Besides, I seriously doubt if they would be able to swallow one.</p>
<p>Yeah I was just thinking along the lines of something that is heat activated like that aha. Too bad I couldn’t find a really loud heat activated mini alarm that would wake me up and I could catch him in the act lol.</p>