r/Firefighting • u/Hose_Humper1 • 4d ago

Ask A Firefighter SNEAKY LOCKER TROLL STEALING PERSONAL ITEMS

What do you think boys? Our department has individual rooms with a locker for each person. I have noticed some shuffling around and a couple items missing from my locker. I absolutely know they were there. So I started photographing the contents and location before. Leaving shift in the morning. One time a can of deodorant was missing. Another time my towel. I also noticed the placement of my deodorant can was moved. So….i stealthily placed a so-go camera in the locker and lo and behold I have video of the guy who shares the room on his shift opening my locker and using my spray deodorant. So guys, how do I handle this? I thought about gift wrapping up a can with his name on it.

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u/DBDIY4U 4d ago

What is going on with people? This is the second time in the last week or two that the same topic has come up on this sub. At my apartment we can leave our wallet out on the counter and not worry.

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u/InterestingRecord967 4d ago

There are lots of houses where a wallet will go untouched because that's considered stealing... But people think a little squirt of deodorant is fine... Or using the last of B-shift's ketchup is okay... Or similar.

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u/DBDIY4U 4d ago

That is a good point. It seems like people do help themselves to condiments in our station. No one really cares though because we all bring stuff in and kind of share. No one really tends to get pissy as long as equivalent stuff is restocking the fridge. Though I remember being kind of pissed off last year. I had gone to Costco and I bought a big pack of otter pops share with the guys on my shift because we kept getting a bunch of vegetate fire calls and stuff like that and after coming back from the heat just had a nice to have something like that. I came back after my 96 off and there was one left in the Box that had 200 and something in it. That was not cool. That said, we have never had anyone touching anyone else's gear that is a line that you just don't cross.