What to do if you spot a random guy wearing your letters?

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Evidently I'm the only one who thinks this thread is absurdly ridiculous yet insanely hilarious at the same. I'm pretty sure I just read a post by someone suggesting that they incinerate their clothing so as to not let it "fall in the wrong hands".

No, I thought that beating someone up for wearing letters was hilarious. So I encouraged it.

[UGAalum94]

I agree that it seems strange to me because just wearing the letters wasn't that precious. But it's becoming apparent that to some groups the letters are more like something borderline sacred. And if that's the case, it's going to be more complicated. The only thing I come close to this level of concern about would be official badges on EBay, and even then, I'm not losing sleep.

This is apparently not a new issue: my dad has told me stories that at his campus they would give any old IFC shirts from OTHER organizations to bums in town intentionally, so that it might appear that the old drunk dude was a XYZ or whatever. It was a low grade prank. (I assume that they must have found them or gotten them from girls they knew because I'm pretty sure they didn't browse thrift shops for the purpose.)

I have to say I do think it's weird when I see high school girls wearing sorority lettered jerseys or carrying lettered totes where I teach. I assume they must belong to an older sister or something. Date night shirts, formals, all that makes perfect sense. But the actual jersey with fabric letters attached, where the whole point of the shirt is the letters, not an event; it seems weird. And I'm surprised that they do it.

[luv n tpa]

We actually had an incident on campus with a guy stealing our letters, wearing them and 'making fun' of us in pictures. Like an idiot, he posted them on Facebook. We contacted Panhel and the Greek director. There's evidently going to be action taken regarding theft and something within Greek affairs [not sure what it is] when we return in the fall.

[AlwaysSAI]

A lot of people do give letter bags and other paraphenelia away to Goodwill. I was once in a good will and saw an Alpha Phi letter bag. It was before I found GC or I would have bought it and sent it to a member.

Also, really random, but my sis and I had a good laugh over it. We love A&E-especially City Confidential. We were watching it one day while I was visiting and there was a little country bumpkin man wearing Delta Zeta letters under his overalls. Sitting there talking about some murder he knew about. It was really funny--he was missing teeth and had a deep south accent. And, he most assuredly was not a DZ. I guess he got the shirt at a goodwill or something.

I would never give away anything lettered to goodwill or salvation army. Yeah, you hope it will end up in the hands of a sister, but you never know. I would pass it all down to chapter sisters before I would give it away.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by porkfriedrice

No, I thought that beating someone up for wearing letters was hilarious. So I encouraged it.

Haha, yeah I would probably never stop laughing if I saw someone beat up a homeless dude that had on an XYZ T-shirt.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Actually, I mentioned this once in the "Places you've seen your letters..." thread, but it applies here too: I once saw a homeless guy in Malibu digging through a dumpster while wearing a Theta lettered sweatshirt. I got a good laugh out of it (and I don't mean any offense to Theta).

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Haha, yeah I would probably never stop laughing if I saw someone beat up a homeless dude that had on an XYZ T-shirt.

OT but I was at a bar/restaurant the other night and saw Macallan on a bottle and then I thought of you. Greekchat get out of my head goddamnit!

I wouldn't stop laughing either, it'd be the beatdown of the century. As one of two martial artists in my chapter, I encourage violence :P