Dave Ross and Luke Burbank find out they are thieves
Sep 27, 2012, 12:15 PM | Updated: Oct 11, 2024, 1:07 pm
 This sign appeared just yesterday showing Dave and Luke their illegal ways. (MyNW.com/Jamie Griswold) |
Dave and Luke have discovered they’ve been committing some criminal acts around the office.
Dave explains he has been enjoying coffee from the basement kitchen at KIRO for months. Only yesterday did he find out he was actually supposed to be paying for it.
“I was down there yesterday morning just before 8 o’clock and I saw a new sign on the coffee machine, which I thought was free, saying, ‘Hey this coffee machine is not free.'”
Luke says he understands Dave’s confusion, as there is free coffee and tea offered in other locations around the building. The new coffee machine, which is part of a recent addition to the building, called the Avanti Market, is in the same place the old free coffee used to be.
“It’s set up in the area, where before this marketplace moved in, there was always a little coffee setup,” says Luke. “It was where the other coffee was before, so I just thought ‘Man, the basement be having a fancy coffee machine now.'”
 Free KIRO coffee machines vs. paid market coffee machine. (MyNW.com/Jamie Griswold) |
The downstairs Avanti Market setup offers mocha and latte options, where the free coffee around the rest of the building is in your standard carafes.
The new sign says the Avanti Market machine coffee costs 99 cents a cup.
Dave figures he’s had about three cups without paying and wonders if he should come clean. The market is staked out with video cameras and signs warning of surveillance. But he’s received no notice of his crimes.
Luke doubts the cameras are really operational and questions how severe the consequences really are.
“I’ve been stealing coffee for eight months with no repercussions other than they put a little sign up.”
But a listener who identifies as “me in Tumwater” writes:
I work for that company. I assure you the cameras do go to a DVR system on our office computers.
Now that they know there may be concrete evidence against them, should Dave and Luke pay off their debts or just pay for any market coffee they enjoy in the future?
By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor
