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April 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am

Stealing Paper

Posted in: Rants n' Rave

theSun is a good newspaper with some salient points and opinions peppered here and there within. There are some good writers whose columns I consistently read. People like Jacqueline Ann Surin, and Tan Siok Choo. theSun is also a free newspaper that is freely distributed at news stands, coffee shops and other drop points.

So, I was in a coffee shop yesterday, planning to have breakfast before I go befuddle myself with Law 101 (Law has its own set of perverse logic - one which I cannot quite follow). I picked up a copy of theSun, which was stacked in a pile by the counter, found a table, and put my bag and newspaper down on the table.

Then I went to get some food (it was a self serve place). I paid and returned to my seat. Lo and behold! The newspaper is gone. My bag was still there, but the newspaper was taken.

Why would people steal FREE newspaper? I mean, there is a pile stacked by the counter. Would it kill to walk a few extra steps to get it from the counter? (well, I answered the question why people would steal free newspaper - for convenience’s sake)

Anyways, disgruntled, I went to get a second copy of the newspaper for myself and ate breakfast.

Then last night, after a failed attempt to watch TNMT (stupid cinema listings listed the times wrongly on their site), I went to McDonald’s and had a pretty intellectual talk with Ke Pang and Abel - well, mostly about sociopaths/psychopaths and their cognitive processes (Ke Pang is a psych grad).

Anyways, I saw a copy of theEdge sitting beside Ronald McDonald. theEdge is a 5-dollar weekly magazine (though usually I get them for free). No one claimed theEdge beside Ronald McDonald for about 20 mins. I took it. :P

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    theSun is distributed free in my college but it’s amazing that the college is not inudated with theSun newspapers. And they also distribute the Star’s R.A.G.E free too.

    Aoshi_88 on April 5th, 2007 at 9:13 am
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    This is something interesting. The only way you can earn back through stealing free papers are to recycle it back.

    yongkailoon on April 5th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
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    The Edge is good. The Sun is good. :D

    cfgt on April 5th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
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    Interesting… nobody has anything to say about my thieving habits?

    p/s: I had my newspaper stolen again this morning. I’ll see if there is another copy of theEdge to take

    Chewxy on April 9th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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