Stealing glasses

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Do you steal glasses from pubs/restaurants? If there’s a nice one, will you slip it into your bag?

Photos of contraband welcome.

Pub I worked in had a picnic bench stolen

one of the regular drinkers saw it next door

so the landlord put a note through the door and the picnic bench reappeared

no, but when I first moved out I didn’t have any cutlery and money was extremely tight, so I stole some from my local spoons.

Fair few we've been told to "nah just take it"

At work we swapped our branded reusables to generics to try and stop them being taken home by people... didn't work 🤣

Yup. I have one from a bar in Germany, a Budweiser one from a hotel a few years ago, and we ended up with 8 Rattler cider ones from our local restaurant - but they did give them to us as we admired them 😂😂

I'm actually nearly out of pint glasses and need some nice ones... Time for a trip to the local (to ask the landlord if he has any spare ones for Thatchers or similar with a stem).

Our house was actually quite a distance from the pub....but I think they did return it in the end.

If there's a particular glass I like I ask if I can buy it. Only done it a couple of times, and have always just been given it - the barman even washed it for me once.

Mmm not for about 40 years ago.

I find that if you ask nicely in most pubs they will happily sell you a glass, or even give you one. No nees to steal.

I thought this was going to be about stealing eye glasses, which is a really low thing to do.

I had a pair stolen once in a busy post office - put them on the counter next to me while I addressed an envelope. A moment later, they'd gone forever.

I’ve just finished a Vimto and lemonade out of a rather nice Brew Dog glass that my DD filched. I have another by my bed.

I used to in my teens and early twenties. I’m quite ashamed of it now.

I sometimes spot a nice beer glass lying on the pavement or on a wall , usually on a Sunday morning! Tempted to take one home occasionally, but haven’t actually done it.

Yes, regularly, usually specific local ales of somewhere we’re on holiday.
I usually ask and am told to just take it.
my local landlords says he gets them free from the brewery.
we bought (stolen) glasses back from Norway, Istanbul and Lake District last year.

We have a drinks tray nicked from a pub about 30 years ago.
In my teens in the 1980s a group of friends and I went to a Harvesters and were working out if we could nick the Wurzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally mannequins and take them on a pub crawl.

But you don't have lovely large pint sized glasses with enough space to print on 😘 It's more like taking home a nice La Chouffe or Delirium Tremens glass, not a flesje Fristi.

In the UK pubs are usually tied to a brewery which supplies the glasses for free. But knowing the Dutch attitude to earning money, your theatregoers are probably taking it home hoping to cash in the €0,10 😂 Just charge a bit more and let them!

(I swear I am looking forward to my visit next week...)

No it's theft

We sometimes ask if we can buy them , they usually give us them.
Especially unusual ones from abroad.

Not any more. We used to nick them at uni.
Had 3 or 4 for years but the last one broke a couple of years ago and I wouldn't do it any more because it's theft.

No! I did once borrow a cup from cafe Nero though
I was on holiday in self catering and there were no suitable size cups
I did return it to them a few days later before we went home

i thought you meant reading glasses and was thinking, that would be weird pinching someone’s prescription or pound shop easy readers…tbf I’m a bugger for leaving my glasses in pubs after using them for reading the menus.
no, never stolen a pub glass, have been given a few though from various pub owners over the years.

of course I do. You know that some breweries expect their glasses to get stolen and provide extra to pubs free of charge? beevertown do this.

I worked at a bar for 8 years. Brands would send glasses and we had way too many so staff were allowed to take fancy ones home. I still have some of them.

Many years ago a group of blokes I know took umbrage at a pub landlord who refused to sell them drinks (because they were drunk), so they stole a picnic bench from the pub garden and lugged it up the road to their flat.
Landlord saw them disappearing with said bench and called the police.
Police officers turned up at the flat. In a panic, one of them yelled at the others to hide it. Bench was in the front room, so they pulled up the rug there to throw over it.
Amazingly, the police saw through this masterly disguise and made them take it back.

That ^^
people used to steal ridiculous stuff but the charity tin was a low point along with half a nativity scene
my dad resorted to superglue for a lot of stuff
pubs are struggling enough as it is

Exactly.