When we were in high school, we used to steal the filters for the premium channels out of the little telecom boxes in neighborhoods. We'd only take one here and there so no one got too suspicious. But, a couple of dipshits found out about it and decided they were going to get rich selling them for $10-$20 a piece. They went asswild stealing them out of every box they could find, and there were stories in the news about it within a couple weeks of them going full retard.Satellite stealing was the Golden age of TV.
The FBI got involved, immediately, as what they were doing was evidently a federal crime. They got caught, but neither of them had a previous record, so they ended up getting probation, community service, fines, and and restitution. When they knew they were about to get caught, one of them asked me to get him a gun because he was going to run. I was an absolute retard at the time, but even I had the sense to tell him that running from this was just about the dumbest thing he could do. He thought he was going to get years in prison.