The story of the 200 dollar wooden pencil

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JakeAssBeatClap

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Today, on my way to my botany final I realized I didn't have a pencil. This being finals week I need one for my scantron tests. I have about 10 minutes before my final so I go to the campus bookstore right near the entrance at customer service there is a fat pile of scantrons, and a thing of change next to the scantrons on one side of this table and a box of wooden pencils at the other end. I was so jazzed I was like nice I'll save a dollar and just use one of these free wooden pencils. I grab one put in my ear phone and start walking to botany.

I walk the quick walk to my botany class and as I am approaching the door something catches the corner of my eye. I look to see what came up on me so fast and it's a girl looking me in the eye and asking me to take out my headphone. I take it out and ask oh hey whats up? She says "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" I obviously say yes I mind I have a botany final right through that door. Then she asks if I knew why she stopped me. I paused probably looked confused as fuck as I have never seen this nerdy bitch in my life and I say "no I have no idea what you want"

To which she replies. "You just stole a pencil from the school bookstore. That's theft no matter how small the item. I need to see your student ID."

I was obviously flabbergasted and immediately asked her "What were the pencils not free? I just assumed they were free I only have a dollar bill can I give you a dollar and get to my final?"

She said "No, you stole it, you can't pay for it now, can i see your ID?" Still open mouthed, but with time ticking until my final begins I say sure (assuming she was going to take down my name and send me an email in 3 weeks setting up some judiciary meeting that will obviously be thrown out because it's over a wooden pencil)

I hand her my ID and she says "Okay after your final you can come get this from me at customer service." To which I replied something along the lines of "Fuck you give me my god damn ID back what the fuck are you doing it's a pencil I thought it was for free here is a dollar now fuck off."

What I failed to realize the entire time that I was talking to her was the fucking head of bookstore security, some fat pale fucking pig fucker, was right behind me. When I snatched my ID out of her stupid fucking vice like hands, he grabbed me told me he was gonna have me arrested right now if I didn't give them my ID.

I decided to hand it the fuck over and just get it after class. They let me use the pencil surprisingly and I take my final and go to get my ID. When I get there the fat pig fucking head of security took me in his office and I put the pencil on his desk and asked what I can do to get my ID. He said "This won't take more than 20 minutes" My jaw dropped for the fucking millionth time after he muttered that shit.

He was right it took 20 minutes for him to basically read me how my punishment is gonna go down. Which in short boils down to a 200 dollar fucking fine. He said the reason that he is making an example out of me is I guess they chased me down the entire time I fucking walked to my class. They were walking behind me and telling me to stop but I had headphones in and couldn't fucking hear them at all. My denial to stop and talk to them was seen as "defiance" and that is why he was making an example out of me.

Which prompted me to ask the question "If you two were there when I 'stole' the pencil why didn't you grab me and tell me I had to pay?"

He said "We honestly couldn't believe you were stealing something right in front of us so it took us a moment to react, once you left the doors we came out after you."

I am so fucking pissed right now. I have already been having the shittiest fucking 24 hours of 2013 and then that bullshit happens. That is my story of a 200 dollar wooden fucking pencil.

inb4 OP is 14 hate.

TLDR

On my way to final, took free pencil from bookstore, got 'chased', told it wasn't free, apologized offered them a dollar, they wouldn't take it, and fined me 200 dollars.
 
Damn that sucks, I was kind of expecting the pencil to be some super rare like bonzai wood thing that cost 200$ hahaha
 
take your ticket to someone with an education and the power to void your ticket. anyone with a brain can see that $200 fine is fucked

no idea who could help you though sorry
 
Hire a lawyer for 1 hour. It will still cost you 200 bucks, but at least youll get the satisfaction of beating those cock gobblers.
 
I would appeal it but it's technically not through the school. It's through the bookstore, so I have the choice to pay the bookstore their fine, or I can take it through the schools judiciary appeal system and risk getting the fine dropped or getting kicked out of the university. That risk isn't worth it to me. The 200 dollars is just a nuisance to be honest, it's the fucking principle. Worst that should have happened was they finally catch me I apologize they say they understand, take my dollar and go back with their respective days. But rather they decide to ruin my day in the middle of fucking finals week right before a fucking final. And not to mention the head of security was bitching about how many other cases he has to work on before he can get to mine and it would be 3 weeks before I get an email with the fine information.

SO why ruin my day, and add more work onto your already busy schedule over a $.25 wooden pencil is beyond me. He must get such a rock hard woody for fining kids.
 
pretty stupid to assume something at a store is free. at the same time I know how distracted people can be around finals. Like if that happened to me I would just apologize and say I felt stupid and they would likely just laugh at me. $200 fine is ridiculous.
 
Dude this is fucking ridiculous. I would refuse to pay a $200 fine for accidentally taking what I thought was a free pencil. They can't possibly get away with this shit. Set up a meeting with a higher up at your school, explain the situation, and tell them the situation was handled extremely poorly by the girl and security guard at the store. Don't take shit like this, colleges already overcharge the shit out of us (if you live in the U.S.) don't let them get away with these bullshit fines.
 
just say that the cup with pencils wasnt clearly marked, you can win this, 200 dollars is ridiculous for the amount that you already have to pay to go to school
 
And this is why you should always have a healthy supply of Ikea pencils.

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write a letter to the dean explaining the situation and how mad you are, depending on how the bookstore is related to the university this might be useful or not at all. our dean is pretty cool though
 
op 1 up'd

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A New York family scored a huge payday when a small bowl, which they bought at a garage sale for $3, turned out to be a 1,000-year old Chinese piece that sold for $2.2 million at Sotheby’s yesterday. The family bought the rare bowl at the secondhand sale in 2007, and kept it sitting on their mantle for years, the auction house said.

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But yesterday, London art dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi blew away those figures when he plunked down $2.2 million for the museum-quality piece.

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