Have you ever done some joy tracking?

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:22 pm

Maybe you are familiar with the term joy riding: "Stealing a car. Driving around with it and when you've had your fun, placing the car back were you stole it, with or without refilling it with the fuel you consumed."

Joy tracking is somewhat similar. You pick someones pocket to get his or her wallet. Take the bills out of it. Mark the short codes and serial numbers in order to enter them into EBT. And then pock picket* the wallet back to the person you stole it from.

*pock picket: because I didn't now the opposite word for pick pocket I had to make one up.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:25 pm

emmem wrote:*pock picket: because I didn't now the opposite word for pick pocket I had to make one up.

In five years everyone uses that expression. Shame on you :D

micro · Post by **micro** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:08 am

emmem wrote:*pock picket: because I didn't now the opposite

Maybe
pick pocket <--> poke pocket
or
pick pocket <--> stick pocket

A legal form of joy tracking: Try to glance at other people's notes when they pay in front of you

. Then use your visual memory to remember the serial number (peek tracking).

Lou Crazy · Post by **Lou Crazy** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:27 am

I had my share of "joy tracking", but only with my relatives' wallets...

Gino

P.S. Micro... how do you get the person before you in the queue to show you BOTH the serial and the short code?

querty · Post by **querty** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:54 am

I sometimes watch in my mother's wallet without asking but she knows why I'm doing that.

When I'm standing in a queue in the supermarket I always want to know the numbers of the bills from the people in front of me. And than I'm thinking maybe they are inserted.

Petri6 · Post by **Petri6** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:53 pm

I only register my very own notes.

lmviterbo · Post by **lmviterbo** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:52 pm

I never pock picketed, but whenever I remember (not often, alas), I just swap pocket with anyone I'm with: gimme your bills, I'll give you mine.

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 4:33 pm

lmviterbo wrote:I never pock picketed, but whenever I remember (not often, alas), I just swap pocket with anyone I'm with: gimme your bills, I'll give you mine.

I do the same if I have enough bills to exchange the bills in my fathers,
my mothers or my sisters wallet, else I write the serial numbers down.

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:56 pm

micro wrote:
emmem wrote:*pock picket: because I didn't now the opposite
Maybe
pick pocket <--> poke pocket
or
pick pocket <--> stick pocket

...

I like the "poke pocket"

So Joy Tracking becomes pick and poking pockets

micro · Post by **micro** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:16 am

Lou Crazy wrote:P.S. Micro... how do you get the person before you in the queue to show you BOTH the serial and the short code?

I'd probably attract some attention when I bend over and dislocate myself

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:45 am

I've done it like this...

People usually don't buy rounds in pubs in Finland - everyone buys their own beer. When I have been in a pub with my friends and they have given me a fiver and asked me to buy a beer for them at the same time I buy one for myself I haven't used that fiver but another (marked) one. Later I have written down the numbers of their notes.

Thomas B · Post by **Thomas B** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:50 pm

I have more than once 'stolen' the numbers of someone his money.

If you let me alone with you're money, those bills will certainly be entered into the database of EBT that evening...

Or (more likely) I'll ask you if I may write down the numbers.

Offcourse a better way of stealing then taking home the entire bill without asking!

Benighted · Post by **Benighted** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 4:31 pm

If I see a bill in the house, I take it immediately to see if it isn't tracked. Every time my mother enter the house after she left it she has to give her money, of course I give it back after I have checked it.

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