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Sir Ducksbane
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 380 points
Last Logged In: September 30th, 2010
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25 + 45 points

Reverse Shoplifting by Sir Ducksbane

January 29th, 2008 11:01 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Insert an object into a store. Make sure your object can be bought.

I couldn't think of anything I already owned that would be fun to reverse shoplift, so I went to a small antique store near my apartment to look for some random cheap object. I found a cool wooden spoon with a weird head on the handle for $2. I also found some small wooden thing for $1, but I have no idea what it was. I bought these two items and headed to the Family Dollar to plant them there. There were enough people in the store that it was difficult to find an aisle without other customers or employees stocking shelves. I put the spoon in a display box with some hideously pink toy boxes and the wooden thing with some plastic kids cups. The wooden thing already had a price tag on it, but the spoon did not so I grabbed one from a nearby shelf. I was a little nervous about taking pictures and removing a price tag from another shelf with people around because I'm not used to doing random stuff like that, but looking back and considering that it was The Family Dollar and it was very unlikely that anyone cared it was pretty irrational to be nervous.

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Inside the antique store. Its a cool store because there are lots of little random things packed together in a small space.


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Inside the antique store. The little wooden thing I bought is sitting on the dark brown box.


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Another picture of the antique store.


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The wooden spoon.


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The little wooden thing.


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The antique store from the outside.


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The Family Dollar in Davis Square in Somerville, MA.


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The spoon planted with a price tag in a "Create Your Own Bear" display case.


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The wooden thing with plastic cups. If you can't see, the price tag has $1 written on it.



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posted by bunny dragon on January 29th, 2008 1:36 PM

Oooh Davis Square. rongo rongo and I are up in Arlington.

Well, for that, you get a vote. But only once. :)

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posted by Flitworth on January 29th, 2008 3:30 PM

Good lord! The Burren! Alright, a vote for Somerville it is!

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posted by susy derkins on January 29th, 2008 10:39 PM

I love this task.

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posted by JJason Recognition on January 30th, 2008 12:54 PM

Now I'm homesick for Massachusetts. Usually I'm not, but it's like negative a million degrees here in Minnesota right now, so that encourages homesickness.

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posted by Sean Mahan on February 11th, 2008 12:12 PM

I believe your wooden thing is a "bobbin". I like the socio-economic knick-knack redistribution, here.

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posted by Anna Louise on July 31st, 2009 2:35 PM

The wooden spoon looks *so* completely out of place! LOL Brilliant task completion!