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Re: "Shop"lifting
My day job involves servicing medical research equipment. One day I got home and realized that I had brought home a platinum mesh electrode used in a piece of equipment I had worked on that day. I had put it in a petridish and put in my pocket so it wouldn't get damaged while I worked. I put the whole thing back together and forgot to put the electrode back in place. Oops!
The cost of the electrode was probably about $1000 even though it was maybe only a couple hundred worth the platinum. The equipment would have been fine if it had run without the electrode but the experiment being done would have been worthless and it's difficult to calculate the cost of that. Luckily I was able to get it put back together correctly the next day before anyone had attempted to use it. Whew!
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