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> "During the Back to School season, you can find a lot of cheap dorm furniture at Walmart or Target. Empty one of the larger cardboard boxes to a floor lamp, fill it with CDs, DVDs, or whatever else fits, and go buy your "lamp" at self checkout."

Unethical? How about illegal?

And it's not like store security isn't going to be watching you. There's a good chance they'll detain you as soon as you try to walk out the door.

And you'll be recorded by the store's video cameras, so it will be very difficult to convince the cops it was all a misunderstanding.

About a third of these are illegal, and another third are just ineffective.

The tips on how to steal candy are amusing. I think some of these are aimed at primary schoolers.

This seems... mostly stupid.

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