Three classic examples of a virtuous-action subterfuge would be:
(
1) Pretending to be cleaning up litter along a roadside, in a park, or in some other public area, and then disposing of your bags of collected trash in a nearby
dumpster; in
reality, of course, you merely picked up just a very few pieces of discarded trash during periods when others were looking --- the bags of trash you're carrying are mostly YOUR OWN household garbage that you're disposing of for free in someone else's
dumpster, rather than paying for your own trash-disposal.
(2) Pretending to be helpfully delivering bags of groceries to a tenant of a "wrinkle city" apartment-complex; as in Example #
1, however, those bulging shopping-bags are merely still-new-looking shopping-sacks that you've carefully saved from previous grocery-shopping trips and then filled with your own trash; your confederate apartment-tenant
later quietly disposes of said bags in the complex's waste-bin along with his own garbage.
(3) Pretending to be cleaning/dusting a certain area of a room, whereas in
reality you are covering up the fact that you either have meddled with something you weren'
t supposed to
touch, or currently wish to do so. By cleaning the entire area that the “off-limits” object is occupying, it would seem natural for you to
move/handle the object itself in the course of your cleaning, and so no observers will think twice about your harmlessly displacing the item "just to
clean around/underneath it".
