HEiST! - CrimethInc

At a factory in the Soviet Union, inventory
control had determined that one of the workers
was stealing from the People’s State. They
heightened security and monitored him carefully.
Every evening, as the man left work with
his wheelbarrow, the security guard would
search him fastidiously – packages, boxes,
bags, pockets, everything – but to no avail.
Although the guard never found a thing, he
continued to search the worker at the end of
each shift – year after year after year. Finally,
decades later, the man was due to retire. As he
pushed his wheelbarrow out for the last time,
the guard searched it, then said in despair,
“Look, it doesn’t matter anymore, but satisfy
my curiosity. We know you are stealing something.
Yet every day I search your wheelbarrow
and find nothing. How can this be”
“It’s easy,” shrugged the worker. “I’m stealing
wheelbarrows.”