Who tf out here just eating loose, unwrapped ice cream bars from a work freezer?
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I guess it wouldn't be hard to carefully unwrap it and then put the soaped ice cream back in the wrapper. I don't think an office food thief will be too observant.
im almost dissapointed, that this hasnt been an issue yet where i work.
i like (by european standarts at least)
rather spicy food.
it would certainly be entertaining if somebody where to steal the wrong lunch from me.
Do be careful. In the US (and I'd imagine must of Europe, but don't know) it is illegal to boobytrap. Which (again US) has been upheld up include putting knowing harmful ingredients in food you expected to get stolen. Spicy food you intend to eat yourself is fine, but spicy food you don't intend to eat yourself may go over the line.
Develop a poison immunity and fuck everyone up
Once youre eating Carolina reapers for the flavor, youre already there.
How is spicy food a boobytrap?
Also, as much as I dislike spicy food myself, how is it harmful? Are all Mexican restaurants illegal?
Haha, fair. I do think there's a difference in putting ghost peppers in a hot sauce vs putting them in a tub of ice cream. And only one is those is a good prank. Especially if it turns out the theif has an allergy to your peak ingredient (or claims they do).
I'm not saying you will get in trouble, just be careful.
For someone to actually be harmed from biting into soap, they'd have to actually swallow it. I'd think nobody in their right mind would actually swallow soap, unless by chance they don't have a sense of taste and smell.
Just make a cilantro bar. There's a chance it'll be soap to them anyway
of course id only bring food that i intend to eat,
im far to gluttonous to waste food on a prank.
i just naturally eat food that is far more spicy than what my coworkers could handle.
Would be interesting for parents with kids that keep sneaking treats from the freezer despite multiple warnings....
thats child abuse
The best kind tho
ITT: people who steal food crying about their victims boobytrapping food.
A Dove bar would make for an excellent disguise.
I hate how it is illegal in American laws to defend yourself from thieves in some cases. The liability concept is weird.
Fun and games until your boss start coughing bubbles and Jane smells like soap when you're seated.
This is very evil.
Also not legal,
Just like stealing someone's food
Doesn’t excuse the use of illegal means to catch a mere lunch thief. Unless you hate your job and don’t mind getting fired.
Doesn’t excuse the use of illegal means to catch a mere lunch thief. Unless you hate your job and don’t mind getting fired.
Found the lunch thief
That's why it's safer to use something like Ex-Lax instead. Good luck proving that's why you got the shits!
How TF is this not legal? It's meant to be your own food. If you want to eat soap, then no-one should be able to tell you otherwise.
Because it is food poisoning. Yes, them stealing food is illegal but so is poisoning food knowing someone will eat it. This is not one of those situations where one person is wrong so the other must be right. This is one of those situations where both people are assholes.
I beg to differ. Food thief is the significantly bigger asshole.
That may be so, but booby-trapping is explicitly illegal in many countries because it basically means an intention to harm somebody else without caring about who the person might be.
I never refuted the legality. I said they're the bigger asshole.
You're begging to differ to someone who's explaining why this is illegal. We all already know thievery is illegal. Your distinction doesn't make any sense if you're not disputing the principle behind its illegality here.
You think out of 12 jurors you wouldn't have at least one nullify? They don't even have to know what nullification is.
Just maybe all twelve of them understood that the purpose of the jury is to settle matters of fact, not matters of law, and found that yes, you did actually put soap in chocolate hoping someone else would eat it.
I guess depends on how they define "poison" in the legal sense. I know that most soaps aren't toxic unless you have it regularly for a while. But I would argue the same for most fast food.
True. Poison may not be the right word. Food tampering my be more accurate.
You would have to prosecute both to make the charge stick. The only way to discover food tampering would be the stealing of the food.
Also there are perfectly legal modifications that are dickish but don't constitute tapering. If the ingredients are normally edible without adverse effects, it isn't tampering. You are allowed to dump a bottle of hot sauce into your coffee creamer. You can absolutely add salt instead of sugar to your homemade pie. You can bring a bottle of Gatorade that has been emptied and refilled with lemon juice.
You can't add laxatives or NYQUIL or other items to booby trap your food. Basically you're not allowed to effect someone's health with drugs or things that aren't food
Ah, so I can change the taste of the food with spices and substitute lookalike drink that tastes bad, but I cannot add medication, anything inedible, or anything that I know would affect their health (like peanuts if I know the theif is allergic).
What if the theif turns out to be allergic to hot sauce? Like yeah I didn't mean to seriously harm them, but I was boobytrapping the food with the expectation of causing some amount of harm. If they sue for the medical bills I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to pay them and if they press charges I can see that going very bad for me
What if the theif turns out to be allergic to hot sauce?
So I can't put ANY allergens in my food anymore in case someone with an allergy steals it?
No. If someone in your office is dangerously allergic to peanuts, it doesn't mean you can not bring a pb & j for lunch.
If your lunches are being nicked and you suspect the person doing it is allergic to nuts, you can not lace your food with nuts knowing they will eat it and potentially harm them.
It is all about intent.
If someone is allergic to peanuts or some other ingredient, they take their own life in their hands when they eat food that doesn't have the ingredients listed. Those people usually carry EpiPens as a safeguard.
If one passes away (which happens, though not as often nowadays) there needs to be proof the person was intentionally given something the issuer knew would do harm.
It's really hard to prove, and genuine mistakes happen (parent giving a child a snack with wheat or peanut in it, that kind of thing).
If someone is allergic to peanuts or some other ingredient, they take their own life in their hands when they eat food that doesn't have the ingredients listed. Those people usually carry EpiPens as a safeguard. If one passes away (which happens, though not as often nowadays) there needs to be proof the person was intentionally given something the issuer knew would do harm. It's really hard to prove, and genuine mistakes happen (parent giving a child a snack with wheat or peanut in it, that kind of thing).
You would not be liable unless there was proof of intent
in that case it's on him to avoid food he's allergic to. So you'd be in the clear. Unless of course, you're allergic too. In that case it's pretty hard to argue that you made it for yourself
Soap isn't poison unless you keep eating it.
Because your intentionally tampering with food which is felony. You get a 15 second laugh, and then the person you pranked can turn around and get you sent a prison for up to 15 years and $10,000 in fines.
Sure, they deserved it, but it ain't worth going to prison over.
Edit: Okay, am I getting downvoted because I'm wrong, or because you guys just don't like the answer?
The secret ingredient... is crime
My coworker and I made our own Sriracha and kept a bottle in the work fridge. It was labeled and dated. The lunchroom thief was raiding our Sriracha, which was no big deal in and of itself. The dick move was that this person would make a mess on the outside of the bottle and not wipe it off. So we put some one million SHU capsaicin extract in the bottle, which we enjoy, but melts the face on most people who aren't dumbasses like us.
Total fail: it turned out the thief also preferred the hotter sauce.
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