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Is when people shoplift in a pound shop, like the people who stole the vital bits from a puncture outfit, leaving the box begind.
\nAs desperate, someone stole the one pound bike lights of the bike I salvaged from the scrapyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is when people shoplift in a pound shop, like the people who stole the vital bits from a puncture outfit, leaving the box begind. 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