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.

I bet he's under the seat at the cinema.

Its a shame it got lost
Its not staff fault though

Harold at web of angst

OP, sorry, I'm the same as everyone else, huuuuge over reaction...personal responsibility...misdirected anger bla bla bla

Now the Op is doing that 'jokey' thing where they show what a great sport they are for venting with their tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Except, the opening post was pure anger and vitriol throughout the thread has been directed at staff in a restaurant that she has named and tried to shame.

Lucky Spiderman making his escape!

AND I think it is arseholes...

Arseholes or asshats.

Do you honestly think that some waiter has nothing better to do that nick a Spider-Man toy?

Seriously, you lost you stuff, you did. No one else. Yes, the staff should have put him by the till in case you came back, but they didn't. I very much doubt that some waiter is now sniggering over his perfect crime.

So many people seem to have forgotten that they have responsibilities as well as rights.

It's only theft by finding if the finder doesn't try to discover whether the item has been permanently abandoned. Or something like that. I don't think this meets that tbh.

Regardless, sorry OP, it's a shame your DS lost his toy.

This is your first child isn't it? Wait until he starts school is all I can say

You were very rude in your op. Please reread it. I'm sorry you ds lost his toy but you left it behind, highly likely another child took it to play with as it was abandoned. Blaming the staff is rude!

It is sad to leave behind a special toy but I think your anger is misplaced...why exactly are you blaming the restaurant and their staff? You should be angry, but at yourself. You should have double checked that this very important toy was in your possession before you left the restaurant. Special toys stayed at home when my girls were young, we never felt the need to take them to the cinema with is.

I judge the OP unreasonable for taking a four year old to a 12A regardless of their proclivity for toy abandonment. And then apparently walking in and out twice during the movie.

Toys get lost, it's one of those things that happens when you have children. My dd lost her very much loved doll twice on different holidays. The first time she was incredibly lucky and a member of staff found it and kept it for her (a hotel we stayed at twice) the second time she was gone for good. In both cases we totally blamed ourselves because fundamentally it was our entirely our fault for not being observant enough.

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....

Seriously, I used to work in a restaurant and if I found a piece of plastic tat, I'd probably have put it in the bin.

I wouldn't have taken a 4 year old to see a 12A though.

Finders keepers, losers weepers

Another ex restaurant worker here. I would have thought nothing of putting plastic toys in the bin when clearing tables. At the time I was young and childless so it would never have occurred to me to think it was worth anything to be honest.
Although the chefs had a collection of action figures on a shelf in the kitchen that the like to arrange into rude positions for their amusement....

Oh my good grief, spidey could be having spidey sex right now. That's not a nice thought.

So did you take your 4yr old to a 12A film or not OP?

I like the idea of spidey on a shelf in the kitchen getting his plastic freak-on btw.

I'm now seriously pondering which action figure super hero would be a good match for Spidey...

Cat girl? They could make spider-cats.

I wish our local Spur was still open . Maybe I should contact the Daily Mail as well. We could do a full page spread Op.

They do the best onion rings there. Reminds me of living in SA.

Taking a four year old to a 12A, oh dear OP, norty, norty.

This has given me a right old laugh, I must say. OP, you sound slightly unhinged, tbh. I'm assuming this is your first child . Anyway, no need for all the despair and angst, as you now have a new Spidey with super spidey senses.