once we had a mission where we had to "steal" things from the frats on frat row... any item from each house, but they had to include at least one toothbrush, a pool ball, and a roll of toilet paper. we weren't allowed to drink, and we had to sort of convince the brothers into giving us these items (or letting us take them -- this was a sat night, we weren't breaking in to the houses or anything) but couldn't tell them why. (we then returned everything a few hours later)
we wouldn't even think of taking anything important.. we took things like a sock, a comb, a plunger (which had a guy from that frat yelling out the window "ewww you girls are so sketchy!" -- this being from the sketchiest frat on campus
). it was fun having 2 girls go in.. one pretending to be really drunk and needing to use the bathroom and the other apologizing for the "drunk friend" while the first girl grabbed a toothbrush and shoved it down her shirt.
i agree that stealing is stealing and we prob should not have done this... but its a tradition and we return everything and no harm is done