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Willfully Lacing Food
I lived in university accommodation (still) and we have access to a shared fridge (accessed by about 30 people I would guess).
I've only ever bought seven meals for the fridge and every single one has always been immediately stolen.
So what's the legal situation regarding lacing food with laxatives? Someone told me it's could be a police matter (assault), but what if I put a note on the box saying, "WARNING - Laced with laxatives"?
Any other ideas? I can't talk to them all individually 'cause I don't know the 30-odd people. But I think it's wrong that they keep making me go without tea!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I would agree with earlier answers that putting something in food to deliberately harm someone is potentially a very risky thing to do.
If you're going to label the food as laced with laxatives it will probably put the thief off. It then leaves you with inedible food though.
When I was at uni one block that had a similar problem dealt with it in a fairly creative way. A couple of people went and bought a blackcurrant pie and two bottles of food colouring. The cooked the pie. Mixed the colouring in with the filling. Cut out a slice so it looked part eaten. Put the pie in the fridge. It was gone by the morning. This was reported to the uni authorities along with the presence of the food colouring. One resident was found to be strikingly purple about the mouth. He was unable to explain why else he should be bright purple and ended up compensating people for food stolen.
If you made someone ill you might feel you had got revenge but it wouldn't necessarily be constructive - after all they could claim that their being ill was a coincidence. In this case he was simply purple for the better part of a week. Also in terms of revenge many people found out he'd been stealing from other students - as people asked about the reason he was purple. He wasn't the most popular of people for a while after that.
Reminds me of a rather gross story involving a student fridge, a pot of plain yoghurt that had been used for a particular women's problem left in said fridge, and the theft of said yoghurt. Notice was then left on fridge door to say what yoghurt had last been used for.
Nasty, but then so's stealing.
A friend at university told the tale of a shared fridge, a notorious pilferer and a Pedigree Chum pie. The others baked the pie, binned three quarters and left a tempting slice in the fridge for when the flatmate returned from the pub. As expected, the pie was stolen but the pie thief was too bladdered to notice!
Or how about cloves of garlic dipped in chocolate?
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