25 Replies to “A Modern Phenomenon”

  1. The wifey and I often discuss this type of phenomenon. If I (or she) deliberately (rare) or inadvertently step on someone else’s toes, get in their way, etc… I feel bad about it. I try and fix my error. I dont run around blaming the person.

  3. Somehow, this is worse than the vids of guys filling up a garbage bag and walking out.
    The pretention of pretending that the store keeper is the one in the wrong …

  4. The most amazing thing is, when their bags are dumped upside down on the ground, they know instinctively what is theirs and what they stole. You can tell by the way they sift through the wreckage to get their own crap back. These people are pathetic.

  5. 1. Does anyone wonder why our society is falling apart?
    2. Want to take a guess at how each votes?

  6. When I was leaving Lowe’s yesterday at 6pm there was some excitement near me, as a store clerk called out towards me, I then realised she was calling for the guy behind me to stop, as I exited the auto open doors, he ran out as to a waiting car and the store clerk tried to get the car license number…
    She wasn’t about to pursue him into the parking lot, and kinda laughed it off but those are the official instructions from most companies these days, don’t confront directly, and this is a job for security / police.

    I’d said to her “I didn’t know why you’re shouting at me as I already have all the tools” ….

  7. This is an anecdote from decades ago, perhaps in the 1980s, where I read it in the Globe and Mail. It took place in a large farmers market somewhere in downtown Toronto, where the majority of vendors were first generation Asian immigrants.

    Anyways this young black guy kept repeatedly shoplifting fruit from this kiosk run by Vietnamese immigrants. Fed up, they beat him up and then hogtied him, waiting awhile before phoning the police. Anybody who knows anything about hogtieing knows thT this a particularly painful way of securing someone. The kiosk owners later said that, in previous shoplifting episodes, they would phone the police but that they would not bother coming.

    What happened was the police came but arrested the Vietnamese owners. Memory fades, but I think the owners got off with no legal difficulties. Just wanted to mention the hogtieing technique as a possible solution.

    2. John
      You mean religious driven grifting, don’t cha? The Church always enables losers, and that’s were it got started.

  9. Dystopian authoritarianism is a solution looking for a problem. Government encourages lawlessness to create an environment of anger and unrest; hence, the problem. Voila, now the solution.

  10. One mall I worked in around forty years ago use to publish pictures of shoplifters. A nice public display via a wall of shame, if they are capable of feeling shame that is?

    1. The local Home Hardware did that up until last year. Wonder why they stopped?

  11. Few months ago I was watching a guy trying to steal a small cooler. The lady at the door was trying to stop him but he pushed past her, but he didn’t see my foot sticking out and he tripped and landed face first. OOPS-sorry. He ran away out the cooler.

  12. That young lady is incredible.
    No fear.
    Assertive and aggressive when necessary.
    No backing down.
    Calling them out for stealing.
    She should give some cops some lessons on backbone when they meet criminals, as opposed to when they meet peaceful protesters.

    1. Store security: Nice “runners legs”, fit, assertive, calm, controlled
      Shoplifter: Charging Rhino legs, slob, whiney, unhinged, demanding

  13. I freely admit that if a Justice Piano fell on them I’d laugh my head off.
    The dead weight of society needs to be made dead.

  14. “It’s only stuff”

    Yes. And you don’t OWN it till you PAY for it. We can all thank career criminal and BLM Saint, George Floyd for the above-referenced quote. In the months … months … and years … of Burning, Looting, and Murdering after Floyd died of a Fentanyl overdosed heart attack … idiots were videotaped and broadcast over all the legacy media and internets claiming … “it’s only stuff” … and “equity” … and “reparations”. Cause you know … “the white man’s capitalism is WRONG. It don’t mean nothin to the black man.”

    1. And let me clarify … these shoplifters appear to be white trash … so please understand that it has been “the blacks” who pushed the narrative into cyberspace that … “it’s only stuff” … and now EVERY trash human too LAZY to EARN a trade/education has laid claim to the BLM motto.

  15. Worked retail for years. This was exactly the type of entitlement all shoplifters show, and are shocked when you dare to stop them: Two of us were wrestling a shoplifter, trying to get store property out of his bag, when he yells out “you’re just trying to steal my dope!”. We got the property back, and his bag and dope. Police weren’t interested in the guy’s description, but did come to pick up the dope; a woman tried to steal about $10 worth of goods when the security guard catches her. She tries to run off with her bag and goods, but the guard won’t let go. I yell at her, ‘just give the stuff back and we’ll let you go’, but she keeps on. It ends up in the parking lot, where she takes a swing at the guard. Call 9-1-1, police are there in about 2 minutes(!), take her into custody, charge her with assault. Police return our store property about 10 minutes later.

  16. Masterful.

    The whinging and even self-importance of these thieves as they are found out is just mind-boggling.

    Chucking such people out on their ears is the least that they deserve.

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