I have been pulled off trains and caught for other things but never for five-finger discounting something. I steal alot of gear (jackets, tent, pack cover, sleeping bag liners, camp fuel, etc.) and the only karmic problems I've experienced thus far is that i tend to lose alot of the things that I pick up... easy come easy go i guess. Of course I recognize that getting caught is inevitable, but the opportunist in me most often eclipses it..