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To wonder what would drive someone to steal milk?

133 replies

PigFaceForever · 16/02/2022 08:35

I've just cancelled my milkround after getting my milk stolen yet again. I've requested that the milkman puts it behind some bushes as I live on a main road, but he's continued to put it on the doorstep.

So, after it's gone missing yet again, I'm just wondering why someone would steal my three bottles of milk? I'm pretty pissed off at this point.

OP posts:
TroysMammy · 16/02/2022 08:38

Someone as a child would steal milk off doorsteps because they were severely neglected to the point they ended up in care. Without that milk they would have to eat dry cereal as their main meal of the day.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 16/02/2022 08:39

Poverty.

HowlingKale · 16/02/2022 08:40

Opportunity thief.

Forgothowmuchlhatehomeschoolin · 16/02/2022 08:40

Because they can.
I know it is wrong but l think if some people see an opportunity to take something without getting caught, they just do it.

Wnkingawalrus · 16/02/2022 08:42

Desperation.

Could also just be a CF.

But if it’s not working for you, you don’t have much option. I stopped buying any groceries from the milkman when bread kept going missing. The milk was always left though.

fairylightsandwaxmelts · 16/02/2022 08:47

Poverty.
Desparation.
Cheeky fuckery.
Opportunity.
Easy crime.

JudgeRindersMinder · 16/02/2022 08:49

Because they can unfortunately

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 16/02/2022 08:52

To the mega poor, milk is a luxury. My work caters large community events in an area of serious deprivation. We put on a massive range of food and drinks for everyone, all free, and the young children swerve the juices and fizzy drinks and come back for cup after cup of milk. We send them all home with big bottles for their fridges.

Mindymomo · 16/02/2022 08:54

Too easy basically, just walking past seems to be all it takes to take it. I used to work in an office on a main street, we had milk and orange juice delivered, but very rarely would it get taken.

duvetdayforeveryone · 16/02/2022 09:05

Don't cancel the round. Hide a camera and get to the bottom of it. If it's a child they may need your help.

BobbinHood · 16/02/2022 09:06

More likely to just be because they’re cunts than because they are Oliver Twist.

LaBellina · 16/02/2022 09:06

Could be any reason.

A very sad one such as poverty (which doesn’t make it ok but at least somewhat understandable).
Or just the kick they get out of stealing / doing something forbidden. Same reason why apparently many people do shoplifting.

Comedycook · 16/02/2022 09:08

When we were kids, once a week, the milkman would deliver us orange juice in a glass bottle. It was taken so often...I presume by teenagers as we lived next to a secondary school.

When my DD was a baby I was taking in my shopping and she was asleep...I left a big packet of loo rolls on my front step whilst I took her up to her cot for a nap. When I got back, literally a minute later, they'd been taken!

Ponoka7 · 16/02/2022 09:10

Where I live they steal because it's a way of life. If it was desperation, they only take one, not three.

Couchbettato · 16/02/2022 09:12

Can't you just get a security camera and place it facing the milk?

MoltenLasagne · 16/02/2022 09:12

We thought someone was stealing our eggs from the milkman - turned out it was a local fox who was doing the rounds of the houses! Any chance it might be wildlife?

BurgerAttack · 16/02/2022 09:14

Same as @Ponoka7. Round here stealing is just what people do, habitually. Therefore I never sign up for any doorstep delivery service. Sounds like you're not able to either, unfortunately.

Milk is cheaper than pop.

BurgerAttack · 16/02/2022 09:15

@MoltenLasagne do you know many foxes who can carry three bottles of milk? Do they use a trailer, maybe?

junglejane66 · 16/02/2022 09:15

@Couchbettato

Can't you just get a security camera and place it facing the milk?
I tried that but they still nicked the milk, and the camera
Totalwasteofpaper · 16/02/2022 09:16

@HowlingKale

Opportunity thief.
This. It's not poverty. It is literally because they can
iwantmyownicecreamvan · 16/02/2022 09:16

Yes I wonder why they take all three bottles?

Years ago I opened my front door to put something in the bin and came face to face with the bin man swigging a bottle of milk. I didn't realise immediately that it was mine and he scarpered and then I leaned down to take the milk in and realised that he had pinched the bottle of full fat milk I got for the kids and left the skimmed.

I found the bin lorry but he wasn't in sight and I told the supervisor guy who outright denied that any of his team would do such a thing. It obviously wasn't the first time he had done it - I presume we would normally have been out at work, this was half term so we were in.

He obviously wasn't poor or needy - just a thirsty CF.

CourtRand · 16/02/2022 09:17

One of two options.

They're very hungry/poor and need it.
They're a test, see milk and decide they want free milk.

That's it really unless the neighbourhood cars have organised.

TTstormtrooper · 16/02/2022 09:19

It's probably your neighbour who just can't be arsed walking to the Spar.

CourtRand · 16/02/2022 09:19

Twat* not test

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 16/02/2022 09:20

@BobbinHood

More likely to just be because they’re cunts than because they are Oliver Twist.
Yep agreed - poverty doesn’t equal thief