been caught stealing  

I took a couple of shells out...
I took a couple of shells outside my government office once. It was raining and they were outside. I figured if that was their attitude towards them, then so be it. I gave them to a design appreciating friend who was broke. I already had plenty.

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Thats tax payers dollars you're stealing. If it wasn't for corrupt public servants like that the whole world wouldn't be in such mess, shame on you, ha!

I recall a thread awhile back
where someone bragged about nicking some designer chair left outside of a McDonalds restaurant and kept going even while a pair of store employees chased after him. Can't find that thread, but it was a gem.

That
was SUCH a funny thread when it started..
Wasn't it one of the 'your best bargain' threads that got almost too long to load ?

I remember that thread... th...
I remember that thread... the later portion anything but a shimmering example of MCM collecting.
There's a public space I know of, has a weather beaten 8 foot Bertoia slat bench. Pilfering this has been a fantasy of mine for sometime....however, I can't do it...not that kind of person. What constitues a justifiable "save" when ownership is not yours.
How does one go about honestly "saving" furniture from neglectful owners?

Oh, who gives a toss?!
I...
Oh, who gives a toss?!
I wouldn't steal from a person. A public institution? Sure. They'll just hang on to it until they get around to putting it in the landfill. Stealing it is "green," because you save it from the landfill. Feel better?
The McDonald's chair was a Saarinen exec. That was hilarious. That person received a big slap on the hand from the general DA audience. Poor thing.

If you won't conjure up the...
If you won't conjure up the cahoonas to yank that Bertoia bench, you should at least announce its whereabouts so the rest of your local DAs can enjoy it. You should snap a photo. Is it in a park or something?

NEVER
NEVER

oh sorry whitespike, that was...
oh sorry whitespike, that was a total joke about stealing from the taxpayer, I thought it was funny.
Web forums are rubbish for communicating tone.
I could never break into someones house either, well..., no I couldn't.... nly if it was burning down to save the life of a tugendhat chair, I mean baby.

haha
No offense taken at all. I was ribbing as well.
C'mon, where's the damn bench. I won't steal it. I swear on Bertoia's bones.

you could dress up in overall...
you could dress up in overalls, hire a van and pretend to be a removalist:) A scam thats been done before but I think it could work, not that I'm advocating such a thing of course.
I once worked cleaing an office tower that had the full barcelona range and the wassily in the foyer, I used to entertain myself with the most detailed scenarios of how I would break into the security room, disable the cameras, hire a van and move state under an assumed name.

Then you'd get your stolen lo...
Then you'd get your stolen loot home, flip it over, and see the white on white label.

Someone
Someone relayed a story to me about a pair of "maintenance" men who wandered into an office building and, floor by floor, removed the Barcelonas and replaced them with some generic officy looking thing. No idea of the veracity of the story, but entertaining none-the-less.
I always find it more interesting to see things that SHOULD be 'liberated' and yet aren't. On the walk home is a beat-up apartment building - very dorm style as many in Cambridge are. Sitting on the porch are two Cesca chairs...slowly rusting away. Around the corner is a gorgeous Danish lounge chair on someone's porch.
A dealer friend of mine once saw an Eames arm shell on an eiffel base being used as a smoke-break chair. He found a suitable replacement and made the swap late at night with a small note of apology. One can only imagine the confusion the next morning - a theft is almost more understandable than a swap.

no no, the building was by on...
no no, the building was by one of Breuers students, all the furniture was well aged and the real thing. Its why I applied for the job really. It was fascinating to talk to the building manager about how difficult it was to maintain, and over the years the changes they had to make becuase of all the computers generating so much heat, the air con and cable ducting had to be completely re-done.
There was a huge painting too, can't remeber the artist.
Haryy Seidlers Riverside Centre.