To the assholes who stole my kid's Spiderman...

[PedantMarina]

... if you want the web with suction cups that came with it, please do drop me a line and I'll put it in the post for you.

Free! Postage Paid! Because why the fuck should you pay for the postage so I can reunite the accessory with the beloved figure my DC (4) was playing with mere minutes earlier?!?

What stupid sillies we were - dashing out to a film. You found it on a table at Spur (steak place) at Lakeside last night and decided you needed it more than my heart-broken child.

Mind, just for the record, we're not best pleased with the Spur staff who cleared the table - how they failed to spot a 5" screaming red-and-blue action figure whilst apparently cleaning a table (to a level food hygiene chappies would like to see) I'm not sure, but that's another thing.

But the people whom I'm really addressing here are the colossally selfish gits who (at best, merely colossally stupidly) thought that maybe a Spiderman comes free with a meal in a restaurant completely unaffiliated with Marvel.

Bottom line, it's called Theft by Finding. Hope This Helps.

you guys should all come hang out on the 'should abandoned ten pound notes be handed in to the police' thread

op, it is a shame. did you check the bins btw, high probability it got chucked. best to keep such toys at home.

That sounds like fun merci, was on a cafe thread once nice established that I am a thief because I might take an apple froma breakfast buffet eat later. End I wouldn't stoop to taking spidey though.

Even I that should say.

You're angry at the wrong people OP.

You didn't remember to check the table so it's your fault really - possibly a little kid came along behind you, spotted Spidey and thought "Oooh, Goody a toy".

A little kid who maybe wasn't old enough to appreciate they should hand it in perhaps?

Like your little kid - who also wasn't old enough to take responsibility for his toy?

Little kids generally have parents who should know better though...

Well, that presumes the parent notices that their child has an extra 5" piece of plastic tat toy figure.

My grandchildren have got loads of these things and I'm not sure DD or DSil would instantly notice an "extra" toy.

I would always hand in a toy (or anything else) if it was somewhere I could hand it in - like a restaurant.
I struggle with places such as parks (once found a soft toy at the park and ended up leaving it where I'd found it because where do you hand such things into?!)

Tbh if we had left something behind at a table and it was gone I'd just chalk it up to experience. I'd be annoyed that whoever found it didn't hand it in but I would blame myself for leaving it behind in the first place.

Sorry I didn't mean it wasn't stealing to take something that doesn't belong to you, it is. I don't have children but given that OP's son is 4 I assume this is the type of toy that appeals to small children, so if a toddler picked it up and wandered off with it, they wouldn't necessarily know or understand that it was stealing. They could have put it in their pocket or bag or pushchair without the parents noticing.

As an aside, I found a £10 note on the floor of a shopping centre so I took it to the customer service desk. The assistant told me that if I wanted to hand it in they would keep it for a certain length of time and then if it wasn't claimed they would donate it to charity. I hope whoever dropped it got it back as £10 is a lot of money to many people :)

You left your child's toy somewhere. It's your fault.

Honestly. Today's generation!

YABU.

Losers weepers and all that

Seriously though op it's just a toy... and if it was that immensely precious this will teach your child (and you) to take better care of your stuff won't it?

I don't allow precious toys out of the house.

There is a book (biff, kipper school thing) which both my dc read when they were in 4yo in reception. Kipper leaves teddy on bus.

Job done - kids agreed to leave precious stuff at home. Eldest now 8, it's been years but both remember the book vividly.

If my Dc lose a toy while we are out, we backtrack to look for the toy, just like you did. I can't believe that some people think that it is ok for their child to pick up a toy from the street or a restaurant and keep it.

Children are careless, yes, but does that mean that they won't care about the loss?

Once, I bought Brum toys for my Dc, my 1 year old had a soft one, the day after we bought it she dropped it in the street, we were only 10 minutes from home when we noticed, we back tracked and searched but it was gone. I guess someone couldn't believe their luck.

I have taught my Dc that if they find something in the street, they put it on a wall nearby as the person who lost it could be looking for it.

People seem to walk off with everything these days, I might out myself with this but at the school Christmas fete last year someone walked off with the Name the Teddy Bear prize which had be put on the side while we were clearing up at the end. How that family didn't realise that they had gained a large bear I will never know.

OK, for the record:

Spiderman was standing on the table, guarding the sticker page and colour-in page that DC had done before the food arrived.

I'm sure I mentioned that we left the table in a bit of a hurry, but, so you have the background:

Given that the film (DC's first!)'s start was imminent) (and, lest anybody think otherwise; film, not trailers - we were already advised about timings)(and told the staff at Spur) we were a bit over-efficient in our application. So we left something behind. In our wish to to scoop up everything that involved purses and phones we didn't spot that Spiderman (effectively about the same height as all the items in the condiment stand) was still there.

Spiderman has come home. DS is holding him as I type this. £12.99 of our hard-earned later.... OK, so we enjoyed the concept of creating an alternative reality (DS discovered him when he brought the bag of batteries to be recycled in the supermarket, and we'd already paved the way with the concept that "Spiderman goes on adventures - night be back tomorrow"), but still.....

I'm a bit confused about why you are angry with the staff for failing to spot the figurine when you didn't spot the screaming read and blue figure yourself?

Over efficient in your application? Wtf?

You stuffed up. Perhaps you'll be more careful next time.

Get over it.

Glad you've got a replacement.

I'm shocked at all the parents who've never lost a much loved toy I thought it was a standard rite of passage

I remember looking everywhere for a replacement bear when dd lost hers. Couldn't find it anywhere. A sad day.

I don't think you really blame the serving staff, it's not their fault, although lots are brilliant and keep much loved tat treasured safe, others don't see its value.

All's well that ends well.

You have to apply to eat at Spur?

Wow, get a grip.

I doubt someone maliciously went out their way and stole the toy. My bet is that the staff chucked it out thinking it was a happy meal toy.

I'd have assumed it was an unwanted Happy Meal toy, left behind by a kind grown up.

Anyone's for the taking.

I'd gone back within a minute of DC pondering where it was (about 45 mins into the Spiderman film we were watcing) AND AGAIN another 45 mins after to ask. I asked the host(ess). I had a good chat with the staff.

Seriously, if you worked in a restaurant, and found something on a table that wasn't chicken bones or rib bones or napkins or the stupid printed crap that your restaurant supplied or nasty used serviettes, wouldn't you just put it to one side at the computer-desk, on the off chance that it mightn't be total crap? Seriously? I depair of the posters who suggest otherwise....

you are over reacting massively - chill out x