Man Says a Woman Stole '$30 Worth of Cans’ from the Back of His Truck: Wonders If He's the 'A------' for Demanding Them Back

A man shared that he confronted a woman after she stole “$30 worth of cans” from the back of his truck — but now he’s not so sure he should have done so.

The man detailed the experience on the popular Reddit forum ‘Am I the A------,” a place where platform users can go to seek advice about interpersonal dilemmas. In the post, the man shared that he had a “big transparent bag of cans” that he planned to take to a local bottle drop in exchange for money.

“The bag had over $30 worth of cans in it. It was a really big bag,” he added.

The Reddit user said that he placed the bag in his truck bed and stopped for lunch on his way to the bottle drop. However, when he left the restaurant, he says “the bag of bottles was gone.”

“So I drove towards the bottle drop, and sure enough, I saw a woman heading that way and lugging my bag of cans on the sidewalk,” he continued. The original poster (OP) says he then pulled over and proceeded to get in an argument with the woman.

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“I accused her of stealing the cans from my truck. She denied it. Until I said I was going to call [the] police. And the restaurant I was at likely caught her theft with their CCTV. So she could either admit she stole from me and return the cans, or I would call the cops,” he wrote.

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He said that the woman “got angry” and told him that “money was tight right now [...] and it was just a bag of cans” — at which point the OP told her “that she didn't get to steal from me and play the victim.”

The Redditor said that the woman ultimately dropped the cans and “told me to go eff myself” before walking away and “ranting” that the OP had no sympathy. And while the man felt he was in the right for reclaiming his stolen items, he says not everyone in his social circle agreed with his actions.

“I told my friends about this later,” he continued, “And one of their girlfriends absolutely went off on me. She went on a rant about how I didn't know what kind of situation that woman might have been in. And she could have been homeless for all I knew. So I should have just let her have the damn cans. We had a big argument, and she left furious.”

“I was pretty sure I was in the right before. But not anymore," he added before asking his fellow Reddit users if he was the “a------” for forcing the woman to return his bag of cans.

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The post received almost 1,000 comments in less than 24 hours, and the vast majority of commenters agreed that the OP was not at fault.

“Nta [not the a------]” wrote one Redditer user. They went on to add: “Maybe money is tight for you too and you’re relying on the dollars from those cans, maybe money is just fine for you because you’re frugal and do things like returning cans. It really doesn’t matter. [She] had no right to take them and you had every right to get them back. In my neighbourhood, some people put boxes of cans out [...] for our local needy to take, but that’s not what you were doing.”

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“NTA. Even if you were rich, she took something that belonged to you from your truck. It's called stealing. No one should be shaming you for this,” agreed another commenter.

Someone else added: “I'm disabled and collecting cans for the redemption is money that helps me live. They aren't trash. F--- that lady for stealing from you and trying to make you feel bad. She knew what she was doing was wrong and thought she'd get away with it before you noticed. NTA.”

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