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Post by ayatollah on May 4, 2023 1:28:01 GMT
Here's the tweet from the news: With comments. I didn't see any racism ones, but didn't really did much. Theft is a $100billion dollar per year problem in the U.S. Stopping theft is not racism. I remember in early covid Mr. Z and I were in the booze dept of walgreens buying scotch for an old friend who couldn't safely shop. It was the first day masks were required. A man (dressed as many in gangs do) walked in (maskless) and picked up three large bottles of some big brown booze and walked right out. No one blinked. No one stopped him. Staff watched him go. I remember remarking: how soon will robbers take advantage of masks. And of course that came. But he didn't seem to care and staff didn't try to stop him. Should a $10 employee put his life at risk for his employer's booze cost? I guess he should maybe want to. If the intervener were black what would have happened. How soon will stores BAN masks? Staff aren’t supposed to stop thieves because they may have guns. I worked at SunCoast video in high school for a summer and we would call security if a thief walked out. When I worked at Kmart they told us never stop any shoplifters, ever. I didn't. Still though, Im not going to attack someone who does.
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Post by poutinep on May 4, 2023 1:33:02 GMT
If you think employees who are not security or customers should fight thieves, you're a lunatic.
Yet on the flip side of that.........there's plenty of stories and opinion pieces about how everyone on a subway or bus just stood there while a horrible crime takes place and nobody stood up to criminals?
Seems like a Cake and Eat It, too scenario for the media here.
Depends on the crime. If they're assaulting an innocent person, sure help the innocent. If they're stealing merchandise from a multibillion dollar corporation, call the cops.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 4, 2023 1:38:24 GMT
Depends on the crime. If they're assaulting an innocent person, sure help the innocent. If they're stealing merchandise from a multibillion dollar corporation, call the cops.
The problem with that attitude.........sorta like welfare.........is in the long run, we ALL end up being 'assaulted'.
Multibillion dollar corporation? Like Sears? or KMart? or how many others that are no longer around? or are only around after a Govt bailout? Which again ends up costing the rest of us.
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Post by Dracula on May 4, 2023 2:17:15 GMT
It was just stupid and dangerous.
He didn't stop the robbery anyway and the thieves got away anyway with most of what they grabbed minus a couple of bags.
The only thing this guy did is risk someone shooting a gun inside the store, getting either himself or others killed, and for what? When it's a thief, play it safe and assume armed. It's one of those times you you're not making an ass of you and me by assuming.
If there's no cop there, let it go and call them immediately. Intervening is not worth it and is just risking a worse situation. If someone took my phone though I'd chase them and beat the shit out of them. That's my only exception, but that would also be a risk and not really worth it.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 4, 2023 2:21:47 GMT
It was just stupid and dangerous. He didn't stop the robbery anyway and the thieves got away anyway with most of what they grabbed minus a couple of bags. The only thing this guy did is risk someone shooting a gun inside the store, getting either himself or others killed, and for what? When it's a thief, play it safe and assume armed. It's one of those times you you're not making an ass of you and me by assuming. If there's no cop there, let it go and call them immediately. Intervening is not worth it and is just risking a worse situation. If someone took my phone though I'd chase them and beat the shit out of them. That's my only exception, but that would also be a risk and not really worth it.
HA!
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Post by abbey1227 on May 4, 2023 2:30:35 GMT
After all of that..........MY PHONE! ? just made me laugh. Reminded me of an old Kids in the Hall skit: My PEN!
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Post by presidentofchad on May 4, 2023 2:44:01 GMT
I would have effed up anyone who tried to rob my Presidential Palace in CHAD back when I was alive. Race wouldn't have anything to do with it. Unless it was a Gambian in which I'd beat him twice as hard and then find his wife or girlfriend and cuck him.
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Post by Dracula on May 4, 2023 2:47:19 GMT
After all of that..........MY PHONE! ? just made me laugh. Reminded me of an old Kids in the Hall skit: My PEN!
I had deleted my "'HA!' what?" reply because I wasn't entirely sure if you were just laughing or you were pointing out a noteworthy contradiction. But yes, for my phone I would chase them down like this guy in the video, and I'd run after the car and hang on like Indiana Jones.
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