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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/knotacceptable on 2024-11-13 22:23:36+00:00.

So in 2005 I attended college (or a european equivalent) in a small town in Northern Europe. We were about 150-ish students on campus in the middle of absolutely nowhere.

In the main building there was a shop (more like a sort of hole-in-the-wall type booth) where you could get snacks, stationary, coffee etc. In those days it was cash only, so the normal procedure at closing time would be for the cashier to sum up the day’s revenue and lock it up in a safe for the night.

One day, me and a friend were just hanging out by the shop and I noticed the window screen/front wall of the pay desk didn’t reach all the way to the cealing, so there was a gap about twenty inches at the top. I said to my friend, ‘Hey, imagine how easy it would be to use the ledge on the wall to get up there and just loot the shop. I mean, the building is open 24/7 and it’s practically empty at night.’

Didn’t think much of it until the next day, when the principal gathered all students to plead with us to come forward if we knew who broke into the shop last night. Apparently all the cash had been left in the register that night and now it was empty and most of the stock was gone.

I panicked, thinking not only was this my fault for inspiring someone to do this (the room was crowded when I was talking to my friend and someone must have overheard) but also, someone might have heard me talking and might accuse me for actually doing it.

It was too much of a coincidence to not be the result of my thinking aloud. No one ever found out who did it but after twenty years I still feel bad about it.

TL;DR: I casually mentioned a very feasible break-and-entering scheme, to a friend, in a crowded room. That night someone broke in.