And when I was at Willowbrook in Wayne NJ and my g/f's wallet was lifted and we called the card company from the police holiday headquarters at the mall and the card company said it was being used right then and there at a store at that mall but the police did nothing about it.

/it just goes to show you. What, I'm not sure, but something.

"I felt bad because I knew this was somebody's Christmas money," he said. "I know I'd be pretty bummed if I were in that situation."

Everything you ever needed to know about living is right there in that sentence.

i would have kept it and thrown the wallet in the trash. fark him.

Nice work, Reggie Anderson. Merry Christmas to you.

Why did it take him two weeks to get it to her, exactly? Did these phone calls he made last two weeks?

Hero tag out to lunch?

some_beer_drinker: i would have kept it and thrown the wallet in the trash. fark him.

and bought beer with it, and then drank all the beer passing out in a pool of vomit forgetting what you did. And that's why you think you're a good human... but we all now know.

pizen?

buckler: Mall security guard finds envelope containing $300 in Christmas money and note with kids' clothing sizes, goes all CSI and tracks down grateful and dumbfounded owner using only the note and security camera footage

"Magnify. Enhance. Magnify. Magnify. Enhance. Enhance".

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now that's funny. well done sir.

Rich Cream: And when I was at Willowbrook in Wayne NJ and my g/f's wallet was lifted and we called the card company from the police holiday headquarters at the mall and the card company said it was being used right then and there at a store at that mall but the police did nothing about it.

/it just goes to show you. What, I'm not sure, but something.

I'm not sure what you wanted the mall cops to do here. Did you know what your thief looked like? If not, then it's not like the guy was walking by the Spencer Gifts, proudly waving your credit card over his head.

See, Farkers? THAT'S how you do it. I leave a big blank space right here for you to shiat all over...

Feel better?

Not the behaviour I would expect from a mall cop.

...tracks down grateful and dumbfounded owner using only the note and security camera footage




Give me a second...I got some dust in my eye
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helps to have the new face recognition technology in every mall and airport...coming to a neighborhood corner near you, sooner than you think

Security Guard: "Ma'am, I found this envelope containing $300 and I used our CCTV system to track it back to you."
Woman: "Oh I didn't lose DIDYOUSAYTHREEHUNDREDDOLLARS?! shiat yeah I lost that money. Gimme, Gimme Gimme!"

austin_millbarge: "I felt bad because I knew this was somebody's Christmas money," he said. "I know I'd be pretty bummed if I were in that situation."

Everything you ever needed to know about living is right there in that sentence.

Which sentence? There are two.

Why didn't they get her information when she first came in search of the envelope in case it turned up. Isn't that the proper thing to do when someone reports something lost?

Harv72b: Great story & all, but I'm a little shocked that after losing $300 in cash, returning to the store, and asking staff for help finding it, nobody thought to maybe take down her name and number in case it turned up?

My last comment should be changed to "this".

Considering the...pay scale for the average mall security guard, was a very decent thing to do.

Would like to say I'd do the same, but you never know till you're in that situation yourself.

and you know, $300 will get you 2 hours with a good looking hooker.

/just sayin

I'm surprised he wasn't reprimanded for taking time away from his security duties.

Mildot: and you know, $300 will get you 2 hours with a good looking hooker.

/just sayin

It's true..it's true.. (new window NSFW)

jingks: Why didn't they get her information when she first came in search of the envelope in case it turned up. Isn't that the proper thing to do when someone reports something lost?

Slightly off-subject, but I find it curious that "information" has come to mean, at least in the US, a person's name, address, phone number, etc.
Also, I was about 8 years old when the Bionic Man came out, and Lee Majors was my first crush. Ah, life.

Hero tag out Christmas caroling?

FirstNationalBastard: Now security guards have the technology to blow up two pixels worth of data into a crystal clear hi-def image?.

It's scary... but this is becoming a reality. Should be in CS6.

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Ha, I made it sound like the bionic man came out of the closet! NTTAWWT.
Perhaps "made its debut" would be better.

the_chief: Not the behaviour I would expect from a mall cop.

I've always found mall cops to be far more pleasant than civilian cops.

They know that they are there to help.

Civilian cops often forget that.

/damn decent guy

Hmm, take it to the track and put it all on a long odds horse. If you win send back the cash with a little thank you in it [Tiffany's Box], if you lose stick the wallet in the mailbox and go get a drink.

Now finally a story worth sharing.

We have a farking story about an old geezer tipping over a plastic skeleton ... Now wheres my LOLZ story about that dimwit Obama thinking he's going to get the drone back from Iran by saying pretty-please?

Damn you Reggie Anderson them white folks suppose think we're all bad.

This long and no mall ninja?

pizen: FirstNationalBastard: Now security guards have the technology to blow up two pixels worth of data into a crystal clear hi-def image?

Damn.

Enhance.

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Meta-humor: That whole DVD was enhanced to all hell and back by the studio. (With a generic unsharp mask.) The Bluray is much better.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: the_chief: Not the behaviour I would expect from a mall cop.

I've always found mall cops to be far more pleasant than civilian cops.

They know that they are there to help.

Civilian cops often forget that.

/damn decent guy

Mall cops will do damn near anything for a girl, and trip over themselves to help the cute ones. Men don't exactly have the same experience, especially young men. The only exception seems to be that girls with beanies get lumped right into the shoplifter category even if they're the most practical way of keeping warm.

darkscout: FirstNationalBastard: Now security guards have the technology to blow up two pixels worth of data into a crystal clear hi-def image?.

It's scary... but this is becoming a reality. Should be in CS6.

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Dude, the first is a technology to take 3D photos, pseudo-holograms, not high-resolution cameras. High res cameras have existed forever, but one constant is that businesses are all too cheap to pay for good tech. The vast majority of surveillance is sub-VHS quality.

As for the second, there's a mathematical limit to the amount of information you can retrieve from any image or video source. We hit that point almost ten years ago, the technology is just filtering down into consumer levels, and I was using it on a professional level over 5 years ago. You can certainly get a lot more than you think from a low-quality source, but CSI will always be fantasy. Once you erase information some of it is always gone forever, whether you never capture it, compress it away, or pre-filter it to take less space. Adobe's filters are designed to be used with uncompressed RAW files that have tons of extraneous information that can still be pulled out. Beyond a certain point you only get noise and fake data, which gets more obvious the further you blow it up.

/Originally typed "methematical," which would be awesome.

Well done Sir. You are a credit to your job that so many (often unemployed bums) seek to denigrate.

I hear he's a HUGH dick in real life.

buckler: It's funny...as a skeptic, I've never intellectually believed in the concept of Karma, but it does seem there's a way of things working out for the better when you've done good for others. At least, I hope so, and certainly for this guy. Good on him.

I'd like to believe in the concept of Karma but if it's true then I must have been very EVIL in a past life. Not as bad my new neighbor though. His wife just left him. He moved in to the apartments belonging to his boss, in a town where he doesn't know anyone, and joked about how the only thing he has left is his 360. Within 24 hours of moving in he gets his door kicked in. They stole his 360, big screen tv, and all the xmas presents for his son. He was rather distraught when he came home from work last night. :(