The_Spaniard
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To add to the other likewise comments, my GBC and NGPC were stolen out of my bag at school too. 
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I stole a Gameboy Color 17 years ago, and I still feel guilty about it
- Thread starter iShouldGoPro
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Damn.
One of my "friends" stole my Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Yellow in it straight from my room. I searched for it for hours and couldn't find it, then my parents deduced that it was probably that friend who stole it. Went to his house with my parents and he crumpled like a piece of paper and returned it right away.
IISANDERII
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In 1939, Isaac Asimov was an undergraduate studying zoology. As part of a course requirement, the students were asked to find a stray cat, kill it and dissect it. Isaac found his cat, he killed it, and then he promptly dropped out of zoology. 50 years later, he wrote about the memory of killing that cat still haunted him.
You monster......
DarknessTear
Banned
I stole Breath of Fire 3 memory card stickers from a PSM magazine at the store.
I also stole Thunder Force V from the bargain bin and then felt guilty and gave it to the goodwill.
I also stole Thunder Force V from the bargain bin and then felt guilty and gave it to the goodwill.
I feel like nobody who really cared about it would have left it on a shelf in a department store. I clutched my portable video games like a ghoul when I was out in public as a kid.
Thank you for this.footage of op:
Icyflamez96
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styl3s
Member
I'll never forget letting a friend borrow a N64 game and every few weeks i would ask if he was done with it until about 2 months later i just had my mom drive me to his house and told his parents i left a game over and went into his room and took it back and then he tried to reverse it on me and say i gave him this brand new game for free and tried to say i stole i back. He is the reason i don't let anyone borrow anything and this isn't the first time he pulled this shit but it was the last because our friendship ended shortly after.
I only ever physically stole something once and it was some magazine that had some x-men cards in it and as a kid i though it wasn't stealing and was just some promo thing (maybe to justify it in my head) and my mom made me go back to the grocery store, apologize and pay the magazine cover price and i never physically stole anything again in my life.. Now i say physically because for years me and a friend would go into like books-a-million and change sticker prices on comics and bundled comics because back then the BAM store here sold back issues and would often sell comics under price cover so they would put stickers on them that were extremely easy to remove.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
Some kid stole all my yugioh cards at school, at the time yugioh cards were popular. I could see the kid who stole them cos he was flaunting them round, but when I told the teachers they said I should sort it out myself.
Oh and I left a brand new DS lite on the train in 2007, and I presume someone pilfered it.
Oh and I left a brand new DS lite on the train in 2007, and I presume someone pilfered it.
Based Calla
Member
Yeah, some fans asked them about things stolen as kids just so they could send gifts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLKuqQIOPo
MrChocolate
Member
Meh, I was coerced to steal a Super Mario Kart and a few rare pokemon cards from my friends back then.
I can't say how sorry I am even after all these years.
I can't say how sorry I am even after all these years.
The12thGripper
Member
I've only had 1 game stolen from me in my entire life, it was a Japanese import of Pokemon SoulSilver before it came out here in the US. Only 2 people knew I brought my DS and the game to school (I was in 5th grade at the time) that day and they were my best friends. I blamed one of them for years but I eventually realized if he actually took it, he would've said so somewhere down the line. My other friend (whom my friend group later kicked out) never confessed to it nor did I ever ask him did he do it. I wonder why I never asked him...
Years before that happened, I stole a copy of Pokemon FireRed from a kid I didn't know. I found his FireRed cartridge on my front porch and I picked it up and ran inside. I could've given it to a friend that knew him so I'd be able to return it but for whatever reason, I never thought about giving it back. I still feel a little bad about it but I wouldn't have ever played Pokemon had I never taken it. So thanks?
Years before that happened, I stole a copy of Pokemon FireRed from a kid I didn't know. I found his FireRed cartridge on my front porch and I picked it up and ran inside. I could've given it to a friend that knew him so I'd be able to return it but for whatever reason, I never thought about giving it back. I still feel a little bad about it but I wouldn't have ever played Pokemon had I never taken it. So thanks?
Silvawuff
Member
When I was little I stole a Genesis game called Socket. It was like, a platformer with a duck that had a electrical cord for a tail, sort of a Sonic wannabe. I could never enjoy playing that game; it felt wrong to enjoy something I didn't earn.
Donate some toys to charity this holiday season, OP. Do good for a kiddo somewhere.
Donate some toys to charity this holiday season, OP. Do good for a kiddo somewhere.
Icyflamez96
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Is there a clip of him talking about the story?
Muskieratboi
Member
I suggest Buying a Switch and Donating it to a Hospital, or just sending Child's Play or Make-A-Wish the purchase price.
Pay it back, negate your karma debt.
Pay it back, negate your karma debt.
Apoleptica
Banned
I stole Pokémon sapphire from a store, the game box was mangled on the shelf and the cart was basically sticking out. I gave it to a friend since I already had ruby. Besides that I've stolen a bunch of demo discs out of magazines as a kid.
That's only what she showed you on the outside.
Inside, she is still deeply disappointed in you and herself for raising such a criminal.
What did she ever do wrong to deserve this? Didn't she give you all her love? Isn't her bloodline known for being righteous?
Still, her beloved son turned out to be the worst kid she could have ever hoped for.
To this day, it's her only regret in her life.
Theft and stealing with little guilt or remorse is often a common predictor/factor in a lot of diagnoses disorders. Those same people share many other traits we'd study and they'd almost always be similar.
At least you feel remorse now OP. But you fucked over a kid who lost a game boy. At least he would have learned a valuable lesson about what kinds of other kids out there. Guarded his stuff more carefully.
At least you feel remorse now OP. But you fucked over a kid who lost a game boy. At least he would have learned a valuable lesson about what kinds of other kids out there. Guarded his stuff more carefully.
first thing that came to mind
It was told on the SuperBestFriendcast
Saucestin_Roast
Member
What did your family say when they saw you just randomly had a $100~ toy they didn't buy for you themselves?
Surely they must've put it together?
My mom would've killed me if I stole that.
Surely they must've put it together?
My mom would've killed me if I stole that.
SenkiDala
Member
Ohhh reminds me of a bad memory! I left my black DSi in a bus in Korea in 2011, it was a little town, I asked my (now ex) gf to call the bus company to check if someone found it. But no, I never got it back.
Come on Korean thief, it was a DSi in FRENCH I mean... IN FRENCH!Maybe if I left it in a bus in Japan a few months before, I could find it back, Japanese to take what they find in streets/bus/etc.
When I was a kid I stole some 3d glasses out of a magazine at the store. I thought they were the coolest thing.
We got into the car and my mom realized what I had done. She marched me right back in, asked to speak to the manager, and told him that I had stolen the cheap, cardboard 3d glasses.
The manager led my mom and I up a steep stairway into his office that overlooked the store, and he made sure that I knew what I had done was wrong. He even threatened to call the police. I know now he would have never done that and he was helping my mom teach me a lesson. I think I was 5. I never stole after that.
We got into the car and my mom realized what I had done. She marched me right back in, asked to speak to the manager, and told him that I had stolen the cheap, cardboard 3d glasses.
The manager led my mom and I up a steep stairway into his office that overlooked the store, and he made sure that I knew what I had done was wrong. He even threatened to call the police. I know now he would have never done that and he was helping my mom teach me a lesson. I think I was 5. I never stole after that.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
For the people who actually feel guilty about shoplifting stuff from the stores -- you can make amends today; guess the approximate cash value of the items you stole, put it in an envelope, send it to your local store anonymously with a letter explaining that you stole from the store as a teenager and you wish to make amends.
Harder for the OP, who almost certainly stole the game boy from another shopper.
Harder for the OP, who almost certainly stole the game boy from another shopper.
Eclectic Jabber Monkey
Member
I was thinking something along the same lines StarPhlox. Maybe donate a 2DSXL to a charity like Child's Play. Sure it won't take back what you did as a kid OP, but you can make a sick kid feel good in the present.
http://childsplaycharity.org/donate
eXistor
Member
I stole 2 things in my life: a pack of cookies and a bouncy ball. The pack of cookies was from the time I was hanging with some bad fruit (I think I was about 8-10 years old) and the bouncy ball I stole with a better friend (at 12-ish I think). We used it once and it bounced in the gutter of a house. That's my life as a criminal, somebody report me.
/edit: oh and technically I still have a Super Mario World from a friend of my brothers that we never returned, but it's not really stealing, it was mostly that we forgot to return it and in the meantime they grew apart so we ended up keeping it. I still have it too btw. If I ever see him again, I think I'll return it, but I haven't seen him in 10 years and have no idea where he is now.
/edit: oh and technically I still have a Super Mario World from a friend of my brothers that we never returned, but it's not really stealing, it was mostly that we forgot to return it and in the meantime they grew apart so we ended up keeping it. I still have it too btw. If I ever see him again, I think I'll return it, but I haven't seen him in 10 years and have no idea where he is now.
FleetingFlowAir
Member
I remember being in some stuffed animal store and walking away with one to follow my mother out of the store. She quickly realized I had something since I wasn't bothering to hide it and we put it back. I don't believe the clerk even knew that this happened.
Something more game-related but not to me:
A few years ago, my mother, who worked in elementary school lunch, came home with a DS Lite and I was confused. She said that it was left at one of the tables after lunch periods were over and she took it, and that's where I questioned "Isn't that stealing". Nothing really advanced beyond that, however, the DS Lite did have Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days in it. Probably the oddest way I have been introduced into a series.
Something more game-related but not to me:
A few years ago, my mother, who worked in elementary school lunch, came home with a DS Lite and I was confused. She said that it was left at one of the tables after lunch periods were over and she took it, and that's where I questioned "Isn't that stealing". Nothing really advanced beyond that, however, the DS Lite did have Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days in it. Probably the oddest way I have been introduced into a series.
Money can't restore his Pokemon save.
iShouldGoPro
Member
I'm missing something here.
RIGHT?! I did the same thing with my purple Gameboy Color as a kid...
*takes off clothing*If true
Shame
If he killed his entire clan, I have no chance.
This is the man you have scorned. Put your affairs in order, you won't have long.
Is that why I haven't been invited to the last few Thanksgivings?
We found the CCTV footage.
I will find a way to make amends...
Woolie had his purple Gameboy Color stolen when he was younger.
The memory of it haunts him to this very day.
Icyflamez96
Member
Just found the clip of Woolie getting his gameboy stolen.
https://youtu.be/ZEUOcyp5dXw?t=297
People were playing this up like the stories actually matched up. Lame.
https://youtu.be/ZEUOcyp5dXw?t=297
People were playing this up like the stories actually matched up. Lame.
BibiMaghoo
Member
This shit is the worst. Worse than stealing the entire magazine is taking the free shit from the wrapper. The only reason anyone bought them was for the 'free' £4.99 stuff. You deprived some kid from the reason they bought it, so they were robbed twice because of you. They paid to flick through 100 pages of adverts, screenshots and bullshit rumours. You are a monster.
iShouldGoPro
Member
Plus, the one I took was Grape
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