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Old 11-21-2013, 12:59 PM  
AaronM
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Tampons - by the box. In my studios days I would always have a box in a cabinet in the dressing room. Pretty much weekly the 48 count box would be empty... Models or make-up helpers taking them.
Yep. I can relate.

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Small cameras and cell phone chargers are also common. I keep chargers to keep girls from going out to car to charge... but they take them. Small cameras for behind the scenes photos - missing by the handful over the last few years.
I make them turn their cell phones off while they are shooting. They are here to work, not text etc. If their phone dies, that's even better.

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How about money? Once in a very devious way... It was a solo site model that had been around a long time. I mailed her monthly check and a few days later she told me it couldn't be cashed because I had missed typed the amount ($ numbers didn't match the words on the legal line). OK, my fault.... I FedEx her a new check and its cashed a day or two later. Then another week goes by and the original is also cashed. The girl, her loser boyfriend and another guy had driven around to a number of check cashing places until they found one where the clerk didn't notice the typing error and accepted the second one.
I had a model steal a check from the back of my checkbook then write a check for 1k to her friend. When the check hit my account, I got a copy of it then searched MySpace for the name on the check. Found the model on the girls friends list and took care of it from there.
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