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To want to put something disgusting in the milk

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ariane5 · 14/03/2013 23:15

For the past 3 weeks somebody has stolen the 2 pints I get delivered from my doorstep each friday.

Iam so tempted to mix something horrible in with the half a pint I have in fridge, stick lid back on neatly and put it out for the morning.

AIBU

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StuntGirl · 14/03/2013 23:17

Cheeky fuckers.

Any chance you could watch and try and catch them?

starfishmummy · 14/03/2013 23:19

Just leave it somewhere warm so that it goes off.

Stopped the office milk theif in her tracks.

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ariane5 · 14/03/2013 23:20

Our milk gets delivered about 5 am, I could get up early but I wouldn't know what to say to whoever it is!

I'm just so angry I know its only 6 pints of milk I've lost but I've had to pay for them and its annoying that somebody is taking it from our doorstep.

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Carolra · 14/03/2013 23:26

Is there anywhere else your milkman could leave it? You can get milk lockers but you shouldn't have to really. Bastards.

milksafe.co.uk/

GregBishopsBottomBitch · 14/03/2013 23:29

Get up early, wait at the front door, armed with something rank and smelly ready to fire, that'll fucking teach the thieving bastards.

catlady1 · 14/03/2013 23:30

I would. Not something dangerous but something really gross. Not sure what... maybe garlic? Chilli powder? Salt? Or let it go off, like starfish said. You might have to do it a few times for them to get the message though.

StuntGirl · 14/03/2013 23:31

If you don't have anything else to do I'd get up early, wait for the thief, open the door and say "Oh lovely that'll be £x for the milk please". OR open the door and take a picture of them stealing it. Either way will probably be enough to scare them into stopping! Grin

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ariane5 · 14/03/2013 23:31

No, nowhere else it could be left.Think I will have to either get a milk locker or just stop getting it delivered.

Its been so frustrating the last 3 fridays, dd1 wants her cereal, we want a cup of tea and dh has to go across to shops as milk has been taken.

I know I'm going to end up looking through spy hole on door for hours in the morning waiting to catch them !

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Pobblewhohasnotoes · 14/03/2013 23:31

Is it definitely being delivered?

I'd get up and find out what's happening.

OutragedFromLeeds · 14/03/2013 23:33

Do you have a window above your door? I'd go for a bucket of icy water over the thief.

ThingummyBob · 14/03/2013 23:33

I'd add something nasty OP but then I am a right cow Grin

What were you thinking? Eye drops is always a good one. . .

StuntGirl · 14/03/2013 23:34

Ooh nice one leeds. Or a water pistol filled with sour milk, soak the fuckers with it.

ThingummyBob · 14/03/2013 23:36

Leeds what if she gets the actual milkman Shock Grin

Getting up at that time I'd be too bleary eyed to aim properly with any sort of pistol.

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StuntGirl · 14/03/2013 23:37

I'm actually quite in favour of the bucket of water now. Especially if its someone on their way to work and you soak them through - imagine explaining that to your boss!

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ariane5 · 14/03/2013 23:37

Def being delivered, I phoned dairy to check.

It is del so early though but we also get up early anyway around 6 am and its gone by then so I'm wondering if its a neighbour who sees it being delivered and grabs it straight away? Its been driving me mad! Its only milk but its made me so angry

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StuntGirl · 14/03/2013 23:38

I'd be angry too ariane. It's theft, it doesn't matter what it is.

LadyPessaryPam · 14/03/2013 23:38

Get some phenolphthalein, it's a lab indicator and a very powerful laxative. I caught a thief many years ago at Uni by doctoring a yoghurt. Only a few drops are needed.

Raum · 14/03/2013 23:39

Record them taking it - put in online

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ariane5 · 14/03/2013 23:39

Its glass bottles, no labels so I could easily refill a bottle with anything!

What do eye drops do then ?

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DumSpiroSpero · 14/03/2013 23:41

Next time you do get a delivery, keep one bottle out on the side near the cooker, or in the airing cupboard for 3 or 4 days, then put that one out for the thief to take.

Or go the quick route - mix in some lemon juice and plain cottage cheese.

Should do the trick - no one likes chunky milk!

LazyMonkeyButler · 14/03/2013 23:41

I'd just get up at 5am, retrieve milk from doorstep, put it in fridge and return to bed.

But for next Friday, I would have 2 pints of the mankiest, sourest milk prepared to do a switcheroo. It would then go - get up at 5am, retrieve milk from doorstep, put it in fridge, replace with rank "something I prepared earlier" milk and return to bed.

That should do the trick! Either that or paint the back half of the bottles & see which neighbour is literally red handed the next day!

whethergirl · 14/03/2013 23:42

I would be dying to find out who it is. Is there no way you can set up a camera? Then put it on youtube?

LadyBigtoes · 14/03/2013 23:44

I don't know. I'd be worried in case it was someone really desperate taking it for their kids. Don't do anything really awful.