Sticky Fingers

Why do people steal things that are already offered to them for free at the local library?  A library card is free...why do you need to steal books, magazines, cd's, dvd's or better yet the local newspaper?  It's not enough to cut out the classified ads or write on the crossword puzzles (in ink with the wrong answers, I might add) but you literally have to steal the police blotter or tear out an article about someone you know or even yourself that has been apprehended and adjudicated. Are you embarrassed by the publicity? Or do you want the article to show to your friends as a way of bragging about your exploits?