{"id":2580,"date":"2016-06-04T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2016-06-04T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:49:53","slug":"kleptomaniac-friend-steal-thieving-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"Kleptomania: A Rich Man\u2019s Disease? Or Poor Man\u2019s Chori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nside the confines of a bar so dingy that the owner named it Kit Kat, I stood in front of a waiter guarding the fridge full of cold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/arre-checklist-daaru-and-you\/\">beer<\/a>. My goal was to distract him from his post, so my friend Pranay could swipe a couple of pints from the fridge, free of charge. We were drinking at our table when he convinced me that the act of stealing would yield a rush even Walter White\u2019s best meth couldn\u2019t top. Up until this point, I had only heard stories about Pranay\u2019s habit of nicking objects that caught his fancy. But this was the first time I would become an accessory to his plans.\n\nPranay is a 22-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/sindhi-india-pakistan-partition-sindh-ramesh-sippy-sindhi-language\/\">Sindhi<\/a> boy with sloppy brown hair, a perpetual stubble, and a small scar above his right eye. He liked dressing up as a college kid to look younger than he actually was. Hailing from a typical upper middle-class family, he never runs short on funds for booze, food, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/vice\/indian-uncles-cocaine-mdma-ecstacy-party-drugs\/\">drugs<\/a>. He just prefers stealing them.\n\nPranay is not a thief. He is a kleptomaniac. Kleptomania is an impulse-control disorder characterised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/indian-journalists-steal-silver-mamata-banerjee\/\">stealing<\/a> items not needed for personal use or monetary value. That night, Pranay could easily have paid for the two beers he was planning to filch from the fridge. However, he had become hooked to breathless, heart-pounding rush of adrenaline that accompanies the act of stealing, and now he wanted to introduce me to the same high.\n\nNow I am not what you call a \u201cbad boy\u201d. I\u2019ve grown up with a healthy respect, perhaps fear, for the consequences of stepping out of line. Between my parents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/introverts-extroverts-school-classroom\/\">school teachers<\/a>, and college professors, I had it drilled into me that rules were meant to be followed, not broken. But, something people never told me about was the kind of rush one could experience by doing something gravely wrong.\n\nSo there I was, winging it to help a kleptomaniac succeed in his neurotic mission to get the five-finger discount on a couple of pints of cheap beer. I got the waiter to move away from his post at the fridge with the urgency of a SWAT team, when I whispered, \u201cWoh table par ganja phook rahe hai,\u201d to him. While he swept the bar with his nose for the odour of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/himachal-pradesh-india-doobie-weed-marijuana-cannabis-chillum-smoking-up\/\">Mary Jane<\/a>, an artful Pranay had already begun sneaking the second bottle into his bag. And then, with utmost confidence, he walked out of the bar without even turning back to see if I followed. In that moment, with sweat beading my forehead, I experienced the shortness of breath and rapidly pounding heart that Pranay had promised I would. I ran out of the bar before I could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/arre-checklist-four-things-might-find-fridge-instead-food\/\">freeze<\/a> from the excitement.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Sometimes, he would steal for kicks, and on other occasions something would simply \u201ccatch his eye\u201d.<\/blockquote>\n\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/kleptomania\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20364732\">Mayo Clinic <\/a>states that the cause of kleptomania is not conclusively known. Present research indicates that these cases of sticky fingers could be linked to addictive disorders, low levels of naturally occurring serotonin, or imbalances in the brain\u2019s opioid system. But it normally manifests during childhood or early adolescence, and usually occurs spontaneously. Certainly, there wasn\u2019t much pre-planning that went into Pranay\u2019s plan to steal the beer. He simply saw it and decided he wanted to steal it. It\u2019s the \u201cPepsi thi, pi gaya\u201d mentality taken to the extreme.\n\nPranay has been shoplifting since he was eight years old. He recalls his first \u201cscore\u201d \u2013 he\u2019d nicked a few jaljeera packets from a general store on a dare. He says that he experienced intense nervousness which made his hands quiver while stealing them. However, once the goods were pocketed without raising the suspicion of the shopkeeper, he recalls feeling an increasing sense of elation. He was hooked. He kept at it, and his antics won him popularity among those he shared his loot with. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/kumbh-uncensored\/great-indian-dk-trick\/\">jaljeera<\/a>, he graduated to chewing gum, chocolates, chips, Coca-Cola, and anything else that caught his fancy. Eventually, Pranay realised the desire to steal had become a compelling urge.\n\nThere are stories of kleptomaniacs who experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/10\/confessions_of_a_kleptomaniac\/\">terrible regret<\/a> for their actions after the compulsive theft has been committed. Meanwhile, leaning against the filthy walls of a deserted alley, at a safe distance from Kit Kat Bar, Pranay bites into the top of the beer bottle and spits the cap off with a grin. \u201cCheers!\u201d\n\nSo far, he thinks he has stolen upto \u20b925,000 worth of objects, from gift shops, clothing outlets, grocery stores, bars, general stores, and the houses of a few unsuspecting friends. In college, he would steal cigarettes, booze, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/marijuana-legalisation-march-mumbai\/\">marijuana<\/a> from the bags of fellow stoners. Sometimes, he would steal for kicks, and on other occasions something would simply \u201ccatch his eye\u201d. He grabbed any opportunity to steal what he could, even when it got him into trouble. The scar on his forehead was a memento from a time when he was caught trying to unsuccessfully leg it after grabbing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/old-monk-factory-solan\/\">Old Monk<\/a> bottle from a wine shop without paying.\n\nI ask Pranay if the consequences of being caught ever weigh on him. To which, he responds by saying, \u201cGuilt is only experienced by those who think they\u2019ve done something wrong. I don\u2019t feel that.\u201d So far, Pranay has never acknowledged his mental condition. When I tell him about kleptomania, he simply chooses to waive it off as a ridiculous social construct and laughs. In his head it\u2019s not wrong to steal from someone who has more than what they need. When he speaks of the many places he has stolen from, he invariably states that each of them had so many objects that one going missing wouldn\u2019t affect them thus, justifying his behaviour.\n\nA New Yorker essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2011\/09\/26\/the-secret-shopper\">\u201cThe Secret Shopper\u201d<\/a> on the history of shoplifting, says \u201cthe first attempt to explain why rich people might steal things they didn\u2019t need came in 1816, when a Swiss psychologist named Andr\u00e9 Matthey coined the word \u2018klopemania,\u2019 which later became \u2018kleptomania.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen the wealthy stole, they could be deemed mad \u2013 actually, a little neurotic \u2013 rather than bad. This not only suited the store owners, who didn\u2019t want to alienate their rich clientele, but also benefitted the classier shoplifters, who preferred seeing their doctors to going to prison,\u201d the essay explains.\n\n\u201cThe rich have kleptomania, while the poor are taken down with larceny,\u201d a New York City store executive said in 1878.\n\nIs it Pranay\u2019s affluence or weird brain chemistry that powers him through his life as a kleptomaniac, I wonder. I\u2019m not sure, but I know I can\u2019t keep up with him. Even though stealing the beer did make me feel much like a badass, the guilt eventually caught up. I was starting to realise that I wasn\u2019t cut out for Pranay\u2019s way of life. Theft comes as naturally to him as breathing, and it is the only way to satisfy his urges. He prefers living on the edge. He says this is what makes him enjoy that cold beer even more.\n\nI didn\u2019t really enjoy the cold, stolen beer. It didn\u2019t make me feel victorious. It made me feel like a thief. It also didn\u2019t help that, unlike Pranay, I couldn\u2019t really afford the beer which made it seem even more like a theft. I guess only the privileged can experience the pure joys of kleptomania. For the rest of us plebs, it\u2019s just good, old chori.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played wingman to a kleptomaniac friend. I distracted a bar waiter, as my buddy Pranay lifted a couple of beers. 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