Earlier today, one of them pilfered a holy candle from my inventory and began wielding it. To quote Henry, "what the hell?"

In the past I've had a steel pipe and a golf club stolen from me. Strangely, as I returned to the 1B floor of Building World (second time around) I could find my stolen steel pipe on the floor right next to the hole. I haven't tried if this always happens...

So, have you had similar experiences? Is it normal for those things to steal even items like holy candles (which I would imagine are awkward to bash someone's head with)?

i thought they could only steal items if you were holding them. not in the inventory, but actually in henry's hands.

Yea this is surprising, then again, I've only had 1 thing stolen from me so I don't know. I'm just that cool

I never even knew they could steal stuff from you O_O Guess I somehow avoided it / I was playing on Easy. I'm doing another playthrough now, though, I'm gonna have to experiment a bit.

Ditto, I never knew they could steal either. While it probably sucks when they do, I still want to see if I can get it to happen, just to see it for the lolz and whatnot.

I've never had them steal anything from me because I either beat them all up so they don't get the chance or I don't bother with them.

Interesting that this happens, though.

Wow.
This is so interesting!! They actually stole a holy candle from you? Cool!
I'm going to try it and see if they steal anything from me!


What difficulty?

Hey, that never happened to me.
I'm going to try and play again

You guys are jerks, I thought I was cool only getting 1 thing stolen from me .

Play on hard, that's what I did.

This run was on easy, just trying out various speedrun strategies.

I attempted to make him steal from me earlier today, and again, I lost a holy candle. On a later attempt he stole a broken golf club and used it in a perfectly viable manner. (when I re-picked it up after having defeated him, it was as useless as before... go figure.) Just now, he also took a bug spray, what's up with that? Fortunately he didn't know how to spray with it.

Edit: more items he could steal: paper-cutter and stun gun. They all do the same amount of damage to Henry, apparently. I also encountered a neat glitch: I killed the gum head on stairs, and as he glitch died (sort of skipped straight down the stairs), my stolen item was left floating in air. A cool thing in this all was that Henry automatically either crouched down to examine it or didn't depending on what angle/height I tried to pick it up.

Some items that never got stolen: handguns, sword of obedience, axe, saint medallions, health drinks...

I was unaware that they could steal items from you. That's really interesting and awesome! I think I'll have to try it when I'm playing SH4 again...

No they steal crap from my inventory too. I hate the bastards.

Yeah it's true, they can steal your items.
They stole from me: Steel Pipe, Golf Clubs (both broken and normal), and I believe a Health Drink. Nothing else

They stole a golf club from me...But if you kill the one that is holding one previously and click on it you can take that one :3
So I replaced my golf club >D
I didn't know they could steal the steel pipe O.o

they can only steal the golf clubs
anything else is a glitch

I've heard of Gum Heads stealing your items but I just club them to death with my aluminium bat before they can do so. Although, I think I have had a golf club stolen before.

I played several times and had a lot of stuff stolen. Got it back though after smashing their heads in though.
Golf Clubs, Aluminum Bat, Steel Pipe. I am not sure, but I think one even stole a Holy Candle one time? I don't know.

Makes me wonder if they can steal Henry's gun and shoot him down oO

Most likely can, if they can steal a health drink and a holy candle, they should be able to snag a fire arm.

The question is though: can they USE it?

I know they can swing at you when they are already carrying a weapon...