Is it stealing if

[tantricia44]

You are going to your car after shopping & you come upon, an onion in which you forgot to buy on your shopping list & you take it.

You just got your cart & find a plum in the cart & you take it & eat it before starting to shop.

You find cooking pots in the parking lot & you take it.

You find an unopen soft drink at the vending machine, still cold & you open it & drink it.

[stevensm4]

If you have to question it...but yeah it is stealing. If it's not yours, and you take it, then it's stealing.

[minioncookies]

Yep that would be stealing. I've found numerous things in carts and plazas were busineses are and I just take the stuff back into the business and explain I found it here you ba bye

[ccandpam]

I take things that I find at businesses back in to them and tell them that I found it.

[sdenimandlace1]

I take things back to the service desk when I find them.

[1imaginarygirl]

Do you often find onions and cooking pots in the parking lot?!

[cathy37]

Think about it.  If you will take small things like this and question your actions, what if someone leaves their purse in the cart, would you take it.  My daughter left her purse by accident and immediately thought about it.  She went back to the cart rack, but it was gone.  She went inside the store hoping that someone had turned it it and thankfully they had.  This could have turned out so much worse.

[linderlizzie]

Yup. No question. Why did you have to ask?   

[linderlizzie]

Do you often find onions and cooking pots in the parking lot?!

Valid point, 1imaginarygirl. You crack me up sometimes. 

[ssarber]

it is stealing, yes. I have found a couple things in my cart that I realized I missed and took them back.

[dreamyxo]

Sure anything you take that's not yours and you didn't pay for it is stealing.

[UGetPaid]

I encountered someone who did this not long ago. I pulled into a parking space next to a cart where the shopper left a thick padded kitchen mat in the bottom of the cart. I was finishing up a phone call I was on and intended on getting out and taking the cart back into the store to the service desk. Before I had the chance to get out, another car pulled up on the other side - driver jumped out and yelled to her companion - "call [Suzie] and tell her I got me a new rug for free!" as she tossed the mat into her trunk.


I suppose I could have exited my car, confronted her and told her it was mine, but I just shook my head and felt sad about the dishonesty of people.

[Nancy5]

Yeah, I have to agree, it is stealing.

[UGetPaid]

The ironic part though is that if I found a $20 pot or pan in the parking lot that someone left behind (one of the OP's scenarios) - I would be inclined to take it back into the store. But if I found a $20 bill and there was nobody wandering around looking for the money that they lost - I think most of us would consider themselves lucky and put it in their pocket. Finding lost money is not really stealing.

[Jsnugs]

In my eye, some times happenings is not stealing. Stealing is when the thing that you take will hurt another.