Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben Boyce The Shoplifter.. | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: September 7, 2026

A harmless trip to the supermarket turned very awkward for Ben when a security guard became extremely interested in one very strange shopping basket...    Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's had a very interesting moment at the supermarket a couple of days ago. Hadn't intended on going to the supermarket in my afternoon, but then I got a message from my daughter's. Long story, they wanted a whole lot of shaving cream and a couple other things and some, yeah, different brands of coke. First, a couple of videos that they wanted to film. I didn't really ask too many questions. Skeptical of where that shaving phone was going to go?

I ended up being a prank on me. Yeah. And then you know, I was like, okay, whatever, I need to buy six or seven of these things. Oh, no, at the time. At the time. It was like, hey, Dad, we want to film these videos. Can you pick us up a whole lot of shaving? cream maybe six to eight.

And then a whole lot of different types of Coca-Cola. So anyway, I was like, oh. A lot of shaving. Yeah, it was. And so I was going to the supermarket, well, I wasn't going to the supermarket, but I was in the mall where there was a supermarket. I was like, oh, we're whipping and do that. So I didn't have my bags.

Biggest problem is these days, if you don't go on with the bags, you're like, oh. So I got, when my basket, full of all the shaving cream, all these types of different Coca-Cola, got to buy the checkouts and, you know, the self-serve. And I grabbed a couple of bags, you're on ones you can buy. Oh, yeah. I was like, okay, cool. And then I was like, oh, I need to get something for my dad's birthday, just a little. So I went back into the supermarket.

Well, I hadn't left, but I went back in. And then I get security coming up to me going, you need to pay for those bags. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I will. I haven't left the supermarket, but I'm going to, he's like, you need to take these up to the counter. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, no, I haven't left the supermarket. I was just grabbing a couple of peanut slams with my dad to put in his birthday present. And so he should watch me as I went up to the thing. Did he follow you around?

Yeah, so watch it as I came up. I'm like, huh. And then I was like, I'm paying. And you hadn't left the building? I had left the building. He's like watching me as I do it. As I was paying for the bags that I, you know, because I guess, you know, like I paid with the bar tag, put that through.

And I was like, oh, wow. And I was saying with me a chat. I was, oh, what's, I'm paying for this. What's going on there? And he goes, well, that's what a lot of shoplifters do. They go grab bags. They go back in, fill them up. And then they just walk straight out.

I was like, that is, that is confidence. No, no. I'll steal a bag in front out. Yes, that is my lute bag. Yeah, and then just walk out like the bag was there. And he said, you're, you said, be honest, red flags are like, do you have a shop? Like, I was like, why are you doing something shaving? He's like, why have you got, are you trying to on sell?

Are you trying to on sell all these things? You were buying in bulk. And I was like, oh, no, I've got a video with my kids. He's like, ah. So we had to laugh about it. But I was like, yeah. He's like, you don't look hairy. But do you know, isn't it?

The shaving group's working well. Isn't it kind of an unspoken rule, even if you do have your grocery bags, you don't open them up and fill them as you're going around. No. They stay, you don't, they stay emptied until you paid for it. Yeah, really threw me off a little bit. This is why when it first came in, oh, let's get rid of all the bags, the plastic bags. I stole baskets, you know, and I took those, but they were in the boot of my car,

and there was never any harm or issue with that. Well, there was an issue with that. Yeah, you're right. You're the one stealing in that situation. I didn't leave the shop. But yeah, it was a half trolley. Yeah. Always do a half trolley.

Then you can just wheel it to your car and chuck the bits in. Now those people can arrest you too. Citizens arrest. Which is probably, I mean, because it felt like there was a while there that were like they could do nothing. Yeah, it was like, hey, you should stop. Stop, stop. Please stop. I use my manners.

Oh, okay. Please, all right, I will, you know. So it's probably a good thing. But yeah, it felt me a very unnerving citizen. Oh, you would have hated that. Yeah, I know. I was like, honestly, you're going to pay for it. And I did it.

But, yeah. Be honest, how much did you think about that for the rest of it? rest of your day. Oh, like, non-stop. It's non-stop. This is three days later. He's still a bit jumpy about it. Was that on camera?