Terrible & Selfish Thefts - can you help?

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;) Some nasty person keeps stealing my colleagues yoghurt out of the fridge at work and it has happened several times now. It is the last straw! This morning he put in a pack of four yoghurts and only 2 hours later there is only one left :eek:

So fellow HHOers - please can you help me think of wording for a sign to stick on the fridge? Many thanks :D
 
I'd be more evil than that... What I'd do is get your colleague to syringe some kind of laxative in to the yoghurt. Wouldn't take too long to work out who the culprit was!
 
Seriously, we had this problem at work. There was talk of a lock on the fridge (this is a Probation office would you believe) - main theft was milk so we have now taken to writing 'poison' or 'breast milk' on ours - my admin assistant takes it very seriously indeed and marks the milk level with a marker pen. There was a very unpleasant show-down concerning a yoghurt once. Our sign is a bit boring - it just says please don't take anything that you did not purchase. I was going for something more 'keep your dirty theiving mitts off or die' but apparently you can't threaten people. Pah. Causes great amusement at work but seriously what kind of person just opens the work fridge and think 'ooh I'll just help myself to that'. Tut.
 
puts the yogurts in a tupperware thingy with a note on the top - "penicillin experiment" or something. Otherwise the laxative is a good idea, but it'd have to be a large dose..
 
lacing with laxative - wouldn't that be like administering a poison? Way to go, you can get 5 years for that!

I find putting food in a bag with my name on it usually works

The only sign I have put up in our communal kitchen reads - 'your Mum doesn't work here - do your own washing up'
 
We used to have this problem with milk, so poured it into a baby bottle and wrote "mare's milk" on it. Funnily enough, the thefts stopped! As for yoghurts, I would leave a pack out of the fridge for a few days, until they are nicely gone off (but still in date) then put them in there for culprit to help themselves.
 
put them in a box with label on...Buy your Bl**dy own.
Some one always use to nick my coffee,that really P me off.
 
if you want to speed up the 'going off' of the yogurt, you can put it in an oven at a very low temperature, about 60 to 70 deg.C for about 5 hours (if your oven goes that low). Or place them in a bowl of hot tap water for a few hours.
You may need to pierce a small hole in the top to release expansion air but just a pinprick should do so no-one will notice it.
 
Just put a note in the fridge saying

'Lets play a game. Russian Roulette. One of these yoghurts is laced with laxatives........ You go first'
 
With milk stealing a little bit of green food colouring in it usually does the trick ;-) I guess you could decant the yoghurts into plastic pots and do the same thing.
 
on the bottom of each pot put buy your own we know who you are............that way they can only see it when they pick it up

or rather than laxitive..............a nice bit of salt you should get an instant reaction!:)
 
I don't suppose that small boys bother to go "Scrmuping" any more, do they? Well we did, when I was very young.

The owner of the orchard was a miserable old B******, and he used to chase us with a stick. We always managed to avoid capture. We did it out of devilment, more than anything.

It got to the stage where we would select a tree, one that would be really obvious, by a gateway perhaps, then we'd take a bite out of all those apples which we could reach, and then just leave them hanging there.

The last escapade, found us wandering down the road, when a police car pulled up. I thought that we were fairly convincing, but then my mate started to giggle. All of our parents received letters from the Chief constable, and most of us received good hidings, and that was the end of the matter. I still smile when I think of it!!

Alec.
 
I love the salt idea - simple, harmless and practical.

You could pour the yog into a tupperware - hopefully that'd stop it, and/or write your name all over the pots.

The soy milk/yoghurt one sounds effective, or what about simply taking in a small coolbag and ice pack and avoiding the fridge all together? And finally failing that, use the zippy coolbag and padlock it shut?

ETA I've got another one - what about labelling them all Bio-Hazard?
 
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write all over the pots " I am a theiving scumbag"

put the yog in a jar and write "semem sample!" you might get people asking what wrong though!!! especially if the yog had bit in it?!

or put it in a mayonaise jar? unless they steal the mayo too?!
 
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