I am guilty! What have I done?

Christmas Day, I recieved a $100 dollar gift certificate to Circuit City. Two days after that a friend and I decided to go to the store, and do a little scouting in the computer section. I was thinking about using my gift card and some other cash to get a new video card, but it was then I saw the pretty led case fans.

Next, I took a blue LED case fan, and I went over to one of the display computers they had out; I happened to have the same case. The mm on the fan was not marked, so I opened the case to make sure it would definitly fit in mine. Then I saw it! A stick of 1g PC4000 Kingston RAM just sitting there in the motherboard!

The conscience did it's thing, and my heart was pounding as I popped the first latche on the ram. It was right then when I saw a store employee heading my way. As he approached he asked me what I was doing, "Just making sure this fan will fit in my case", I said to the man, "I have the same one". "Cool, go right ahead", replied the employee, and continued down the isle. What was I to do from there? The ram was half out and I needed it at home! I popped it completely out and into my hand the ram went, the case was closed, literally.

Out the door I went, my bag containing a legit case fan, the ram, and a ****load of guilt. I went home, installed both and I was so excited; my computer was running great! Every day after that I have been filled with guilt the moment I sit in my computer chair, I was running stolen ram.



I figured I would make a story out of the whole ordeal, I hope you liked it! Anyways, the people whom I told about this all said that what I did was absolutely ingenious, and that stealing ram is next to unknown. Although it is kind of interesting that I managed to do this, I still feel terrible about it. I know that it was wrong on so many levels, and I hope that none of you lose taste for me or my work. I am not a stealer, nor do I want to be, I simply got caught up in the moment.

What are yall's feeling about this?

Well, I certainly didn't expect to read that when i saw the title. I thought something else completely weird was about to happen.

Anyways, the bottom line is Stealing is wrong no matter how big or how small. Don't let anyone tell you that it's ok because circuit city is a big company and so they won't notice.

Don't worry about it, just repent and then don't do it again. Jesus died on the cross so that you can recieve forgivness and a blank sheet for what you have done.

Accept him as your personal Lord and Saviour today

Marc

Steal. Repent. Repeat. Sell your soul to the Lord today.

On a more serious note, stick to your own heart. Like touching the metaphysical hot stove, if it hurts your conscience, you'd think twice about doing it again, hopefully. Unless you're a psychological masochist.

I personally went through that sort of situation, except in my case I was caught. Ever since then, I haven't stolen anything from a store consciously.

While I did not appreciate the whole Jesus loves you aspect of Lazyroll's post, I do appreciate the message behind it. Yet I do find mo0's post more compelling.

Personally, I have been in stores and situation, where I see something, and I'm like, this would be so easy to steal, I could get away with this and no one would know about. But I haven't done it, mainly because I would know about it. Now that you have the RAM and are running it, I don't know what you shoild do. I guess keep it, and never, ever, steal again. But what kind of lesson would that be?

Let's hope you are so understanding when someone steals your work.

Why not sneak back into the store and replace the RAM. Then your conscience would be clear, and maybe you'd get caught this time and get what's coming to you!

Seriously man, of course it isn't ok. Now when someone buys that computer through an open box deal they won't get what they paid for, and probably won't ever know the difference, they'll just wonder why their computer is so slow. So you'll be ripping them off too, not just circuit city.

Make sure you only do it once. It's easy to get hooked on the habit, especially when you get away without a challenge.

Believe me, I know.

I agree with all of you, today I acually went back to the store and sat down with the manager. At first he was very dissapointed but the moment I put the RAM in his hand, he was very impressed that I acually came back and returned it.

I believe stealing is wrong, and I can't believe I went through with doing it in the first place. I can assure all of you, and most importantly assure myself that something like this will NEVER happen again.

Thank you all for your advice and guidance, I found it very helpful during these troubled times. I just couldn't bear using a computer with stolen ram, it just ate away at me.

I hope that by telling a story like this, none of you look at me in a different light. Although I stole, I am still a good person, and hopefully you all can once again respect me after returning the RAM.

Damn 1gb of RAM. Wish I was you, could've made some damn good use of that. :D

I personally would not have returned it all.....but that's me. :D

Way to go. Stealing the RAM took some courage. Returning the RAM took character.