THOU SHALT PICK UP TOYS Mother and her two small boys were having a serious discussion about stealing and why it was wrong. Mother asked the boys why they thought stealing was wrong. Five year old Luke said that stealing was against God’s laws. He had learned about the Ten Commandments in Sunday School. Mother …
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CARELESS CREDIT CARD Cindy Penka of Hauppauge, New York had her credit card stolen. She called her husband Thomas who was ten miles away at work to tell him about her loss. The Associated Press reported that while they were talking, the two credit card thieves walked into Thomas Penka’s electronics store to use their …
DISHONESTY IS STUPID At Illinois State University in Champagne, Illinois, a woman called police to report she’d locked her keys inside her boyfriends car and wondered if they could help get them out. Unfortunately for her, the police were out looking for the car at the time because it was stolen. It’s easy to overlook …
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LAWS & AXIOMS OF LIFE Felson’s Law: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
SISTER ROBBED A STORE A grandmother took her two grandchildren to the store with her. When returning to the store, the older brother told his grandmother that his sister had taken an item from the store. The grandmother was in a hurry but knew that she needed to go back into the store with her …
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THE TRUTH WILL GET YOU FIRED Seems some Boeing employees decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747 airplanes. They were successful in getting the raft out of the plane and home. When they took it for a float on the river, they were quite surprised as a Coast Guard helicopter descended …
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THE OTHER MAN’S SHOES Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you’re a mile a way, and you have his shoes!
STOLEN PLEDGES The sexton ran into the rabbi’s apartment near the temple and said excitedly, “Rabbi, somebody broke into the synagogue office yesterday and stole $80,000 in pledges!”
YUGOSLAVIAN REVENGE As Albanian Feti Ajvazi returned home after NATO stopped the killing in Kosovo, he was heard to say, “They took all of our things. Now it is our turn to take all of their things.” At the time he was carrying a dining-room table from a Serbian home. Taken from Newsweek, July 5, …
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THANKFUL THIEF “Give thanks to the Lord…” – Psalm 105:1 A robber in Vancouver, B.C. called to say thanks after taking an undisclosed amount of money from a branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Police said. “Ten minutes after he had hit the bank, he called up and thanked them for their service and …
CHEATED BY A FLY A Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walk into a pub. They proceeded to each buy a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage three flies landed in each of their pints and got stuck in the thick head of the beverage. The Englishman pushed …
FORGIVE & FORGET An African man worked for a missionary in Liberia who caught him stealing clothes from her house. The man asked her forgiveness and promised he would never steal from her again. The woman forgave him and allowed him to continue to work for her. About a month later she caught him stealing …
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WRONG NUMBER A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper an wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the …
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged” (Mt. 7:1). There is an ancient legend about a man who stole a piece of food and was ordered by the king to be hanged. When asked if he had any last words, the thief replied, “Know, O king, that I can plant an apple …