your getting even is still theft, -
My girlfriend works at a Big Store. As a boot camp Greeter she asked a Mexican to see his receit. He knocked her down and got away(not a big getaway,since he just went to the parking lot and got in his car and drove away). After the tears and stress she learned you don't intervene. Since then she has witnessed numerous theft's. Maybe for fun, I'll hang around the Big Store and be a detective.
I've thought about the leniency that big stores accept. I could walk out and wave a receit from a week or so ago and be gold. I don't do that. And neither do the majority of Americans, well except those schooled elsewhere.
If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.