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(Some Guy)		Shoplifter tripped by woman as he tries to flee. With video awesomeness (at 0:59) (i-am-bored.com)		57
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Neurochemist

2008-08-08 2:53:25 AM

Bad move.

I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction. She was rubbernecking and was exposing her kid to danger. The smart mom was the one who grabbed their kids and got them out ASAP.

Check list of stupidity (IMHO):
Needless exposure to danger
Needless interaction, that could cause bodily injury and lead to liability. (Yah screw the American legal system)
Needlessly volunteering to witness something that could land you in court.

/Darwin says, go for the MILF who ran.

OnmyojiOmn

2008-08-08 3:03:14 AM

Neurochemist: Bad move.

I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction. She was rubbernecking and was exposing her kid to danger. The smart mom was the one who grabbed their kids and got them out ASAP.

Check list of stupidity (IMHO):
Needless exposure to danger
Needless interaction, that could cause bodily injury and lead to liability. (Yah screw the American legal system)
Needlessly volunteering to witness something that could land you in court.

/Darwin says, go for the MILF who ran.

Approve of that sentiment.

RyanLP

2008-08-08 3:25:56 AM

There's more to this story than what we're seeing. It looks like they already caught him, brought him back in, he escapes and then the lady trips him. At the beginning of the video, it shows him getting escorted into the store the first time.

Neurochemist

2008-08-08 3:36:54 AM

RyanLP: There's more to this story than what we're seeing. It looks like they already caught him, brought him back in, he escapes and then the lady trips him. At the beginning of the video, it shows him getting escorted into the store the first time.

I'll be damned.. after watching it 6-7 times I was finally able to catch that... There was so much stuff going on in the video, it was hard to make heads-or-tails of anything.

ChicoEscuela

2008-08-08 3:43:50 AM

Neurochemist - did you see the gorilla walk by?

Neurochemist

2008-08-08 3:46:43 AM

ChicoEscuela: did you see the gorilla walk by?

Just barely, far off...in the background

not fonda kerry

2008-08-08 4:01:07 AM

So what they are saying is foil lined bags prohibit the sensor from setting off alarms.

Thanks.

mason4300

2008-08-08 4:17:54 AM

not fonda kerry: So what they are saying is foil lined bags fail to prohibit the sensor from setting off alarms.

Thanks.

FTFY

Psychotropic

2008-08-08 4:46:11 AM

Neurochemist: I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction.

I'm glad I live in a world where not everyone is as cowardly as you.

Malinki

2008-08-08 5:30:24 AM

Psychotropic: Neurochemist: I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction.

I'm glad I live in a world where not everyone is as cowardly as you.

Cowardly, hell. So far nobody seems to have noticed the guy was about to be re-pwned by security. The idiot lady actually had to reach in to trip him while avoiding tripping the security guy, he was that close.

Sure, applaud the citizen that gets involved, but for several reasons this lady was stupid.

Bolo Jungle

2008-08-08 6:08:47 AM

Um.... a hand-held security camera??? Was it Ceiling Cat watching you shoplift?

Neurochemist

2008-08-08 6:40:06 AM

Psychotropic: I'm glad I live in a world where not everyone is as cowardly as you.

That guy wasn't endangering anyone.. Once you confront somebody and they flee, it is stupid to chase them...

What would we be saying if these scenarios happened:
A) Woman trips the criminal, he made it a few more steps before falling and gets his head crushed by a car driving in the front of the store.
B) Guy begins to flee, notices woman standing by looking with daughter, grabs her daughter and uses her as a hostage.
C) Store chases crook, who while fleeing store, bumps into woman knocking her down and breaking her leg.

Chasing a criminal out of a public store is a very high liability and a most stores will not allow their associates to do it. Chasing criminal is for police...

/If he was being violent with people -- I'd step in... Fleeing is not violence.

Malinki

2008-08-08 7:13:38 AM

Neurochemist: Psychotropic: I'm glad I live in a world where not everyone is as cowardly as you.

That guy wasn't endangering anyone.. Once you confront somebody and they flee, it is stupid to chase them...

What would we be saying if these scenarios happened:
A) Woman trips the criminal, he made it a few more steps before falling and gets his head crushed by a car driving in the front of the store.
B) Guy begins to flee, notices woman standing by looking with daughter, grabs her daughter and uses her as a hostage.
C) Store chases crook, who while fleeing store, bumps into woman knocking her down and breaking her leg.

Chasing a criminal out of a public store is a very high liability and a most stores will not allow their associates to do it. Chasing criminal is for police...

/If he was being violent with people -- I'd step in... Fleeing is not violence.

A.1) Woman trips the criminal and he goes headfirst through all that nice glass, slicing open his carotid in the process and bleeding out. Then they find out it was all a mistake.

That was my first thought, anyway. Although I like the idea of him getting hit by a car, the glass is much closer.

Mugato

2008-08-08 7:31:37 AM

She's Batman!

CheddarPants

2008-08-08 7:35:36 AM

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

lil_monster_75

2008-08-08 7:37:32 AM

CheddarPants [TotalFark]
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

THIS

Old enough to know better

2008-08-08 8:09:44 AM

lil_monster_75: CheddarPants [TotalFark]
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

THIS

THIS THIS

wotnartd

2008-08-08 8:12:24 AM

THIS THIS THIS

Unfortunately, I dabble in the retail realm once in a while (second job), and our biggest thing is to keep an eye out for suspect people (hill billies, white people, green people, Mexicans, Blacks, hoodlums, drunks, Greys, Grays, Muslims, Republicans, and Bigfoot...) if we see someone trying to abscond, we can't even get in front of them. Only a manager can talk to them, and cannot touch them.

I'd rather spot tackle a poor old woman that accidentally put denture glue in her purse.

MonkeyVegetables

2008-08-08 8:17:25 AM

what about uncle ben?

people_are_chumps

2008-08-08 8:24:52 AM

What kind of danger does a shoplifter pose? If he had a weapon he would have been out of there, if he had any balls at all he would have been out of there. But he didnt so I see no threat.

/Shoplifters are usually useless drug addicts.

WTFDYW

2008-08-08 8:32:53 AM

Society as a whole is getting pretty farking pathetic

root88

2008-08-08 9:46:49 AM

I don't know who those store associates think they are.

I don't care what you think I did, if you start grabbing me like that and you aren't a cop, somebody is getting knocked the fark out.

The Dynamite Monkey

2008-08-08 9:57:42 AM

Neurochemist: Bad move.

In a thread laden with Internet Tough Guy Syndrome, Neurochemist is the voice of reason.

The police do NOT want you to get involved. They want you out of the way. Get a look at the guy, make a mental note of his description, write down a license plate -- but stay the fark out of things unless you do not care for your own safety.

people_are_chumps

2008-08-08 10:10:57 AM

The Dynamite Monkey: Neurochemist: Bad move.

In a thread laden with Internet Tough Guy Syndrome, Neurochemist is the voice of reason.

The police do NOT want you to get involved. They want you out of the way. Get a look at the guy, make a mental note of his description, write down a license plate -- but stay the fark out of things unless you do not care for your own safety.

Err, internet tough guy? The biatch stuck her leg out, my 3 year old nephew could have done that.
I'm just not seeing what the big deal is here.

/Would love to foil a robbery, just hasnt had a chance.

seabass242

2008-08-08 10:16:30 AM

Malinki: Neurochemist: Psychotropic: I'm glad I live in a world where not everyone is as cowardly as you.

That guy wasn't endangering anyone.. Once you confront somebody and they flee, it is stupid to chase them...

What would we be saying if these scenarios happened:
A) Woman trips the criminal, he made it a few more steps before falling and gets his head crushed by a car driving in the front of the store.
B) Guy begins to flee, notices woman standing by looking with daughter, grabs her daughter and uses her as a hostage.
C) Store chases crook, who while fleeing store, bumps into woman knocking her down and breaking her leg.

Chasing a criminal out of a public store is a very high liability and a most stores will not allow their associates to do it. Chasing criminal is for police...

/If he was being violent with people -- I'd step in... Fleeing is not violence.

A.1) Woman trips the criminal and he goes headfirst through all that nice glass, slicing open his carotid in the process and bleeding out. Then they find out it was all a mistake.

That was my first thought, anyway. Although I like the idea of him getting hit by a car, the glass is much closer.

That's taking it a bit far I would say.

Stealing is one of the bad three in my mind. (it's obvious what the other two are) If you can stop someone in the act you should always try.

My bet is that the security guy closed in faster than she thought, and she was already committed to tripping the guy.

Barak vEsh

2008-08-08 10:16:47 AM

that thief looks like my boss, but 30 lbs lighter...

Whatthefark

2008-08-08 10:38:46 AM

Neurochemist: I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction.

Wimp.

If more people took a stand against crime instead of waiting for someone else take care of it, crime rates would drop.

She should have hip checked him into those alarm things next to the doors.

Tresser

2008-08-08 10:42:58 AM

root88: I don't know who those store associates think they are.

I don't care what you think I did, if you start grabbing me like that and you aren't a cop, somebody is getting knocked the fark out.

Moonfisher

2008-08-08 11:22:37 AM

Tresser: root88: I don't know who those store associates think they are.

I don't care what you think I did, if you start grabbing me like that and you aren't a cop, somebody is getting knocked the fark out.

This. You aren't supposed to stop shoplifters anymore. They can sue the fark out of you for laying a hand on them. But that may have been an undercover security guard, in which case, game on.

abi in malam crucem

2008-08-08 11:27:11 AM

I give her credit for endangering her (and her child's) safety to do the "right thing", but she could still be (successfully) sued for assault. What she did may turn a criminal's "get out of a 300 dollar fine by running" option into "get 3,000 dollars by pressing assault charges on the woman".

Rann Xerox

2008-08-08 11:39:40 AM

abi in malam crucem

2008-08-08 11:44:45 AM

CheddarPants: ~~For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.~~

For evil to flourish, it only requires some idiot to think they are in the right, no matter what. -fixed

Evil is good intention gone wrong. The reason those good intentions go wrong is usually because people don't think. Evil=Stupidity.

YogTheHut

2008-08-08 12:04:54 PM

mason4300: not fonda kerry: So what they are saying is foil lined bags fail to prohibit the sensor from setting off alarms.

Thanks.

FTFY

I used to work as security, and some shoplifters do indeed do this as it works. We don't know how he got caught in this video, he may well have been observed taking the items by staff, and then they found the foil-lined bag later.

Also he basically came prepared to steal so there will be no talking his way out of it.

/Getting a kick out of the replies.

bitemark

2008-08-08 12:21:45 PM

Moonfisher: Tresser: root88: I don't know who those store associates think they are.

I don't care what you think I did, if you start grabbing me like that and you aren't a cop, somebody is getting knocked the fark out.

This. You aren't supposed to stop shoplifters anymore. They can sue the fark out of you for laying a hand on them. But that may have been an undercover security guard, in which case, game on.

That's why while I'd be happy to do something like this, phase 2 would involve getting the fark outta there, and not have my name on anything.

GilRuiz1

2008-08-08 12:29:19 PM

Malinki

2008-08-08 12:32:02 PM

seabass242: My bet is that the security guy closed in faster than she thought, and she was already committed to tripping the guy.

Riiiiiiiight. Watch it again and keep telling yourself that.

Like I said above, I'm all for getting involved, but that chick should have gotten out of the way.

Hector Remarkable

2008-08-08 1:33:29 PM

+1 for tripping lady.

Bob The Nob

2008-08-08 1:42:50 PM

Thom McOwned

Rose Red

2008-08-08 3:21:29 PM

Looks like 2 ladies.

Stahi

2008-08-08 3:50:01 PM

I work for a security company, and we're trained that we have no authority to arrest/hold someone against their will, and that we're basically just citizens.

We're supposed to spot, attempt to deter, and report. If we grab someone they can sue us.

GBmanNC

2008-08-08 4:29:19 PM

Isn't it kidnapping if the guy stocking the shelves tackles and detains you?

holycow2

2008-08-08 4:45:42 PM

Shoot all the Lawyers then let God send us some new ones!

I personally need lawyers but man they get in the way alot!!

Don't do what is right do what doesn't get you sued!!
Somedays I just respect the way china works!

Thunderboy

2008-08-08 5:00:31 PM

Bolo Jungle: Um.... a hand-held security camera??? Was it Ceiling Cat watching you shoplift?

No. It was ceiling cat shooting video of a security monitor during playback of the incident.

Juniper Jupiter

2008-08-08 5:18:44 PM

Stahi: I work for a security company, and we're trained that we have no authority to arrest/hold someone against their will, and that we're basically just citizens.

We're supposed to spot, attempt to deter, and report. If we grab someone they can sue us.

Well if you guys can't grab them, what's the point of having you there? So the smarter shoplifters can laugh and say, "I don't think so! Mitts off, Rent-a-cop!"

Hubby got stopped at a Home Depot and he WASN'T shoplifting. He was at one of those, at the time new, self-checkout registers. He did everything he was supposed to and had the cameras pointing at him the whole time, and since he was the only one there, the SCR station guy kept his eye on him. Apparently, Hubby must not have rubbed an item across the magnet hard enough because he set off the alarm. The station guy caught up to him before he hit the second set of doors and asked for his receipt and to look in the bag. Hubby knew the routine, took one look at the guy, and said, "You kept your eye on me, it's none of your business what's in the bag, and no, you can't look at the receipt," because he knew the guy can just go back to the station and look it up. The guy had to let him go right there. Pissed Hubby off. I called Home Depot to complain and did my best "polite biatchy wife" to the general manager. I told him they were basically grounded until the station guy got better training. Turns out the general manager agreed with me. Hubby should NOT have been approached when he had been watched before he left. I felt better.

/Where was I going with this?

wichitaleaf

2008-08-08 5:32:43 PM

Juniper Jupiter

RELAX!

this happens to me once and a great while

i just kindly hand my receipt to the nice person(who is just doing their $7.00 an hour job) and let them check my bag

and go kindly on my way

saying to them, have a nice day.

everyone is pleasant and life is much more enjoyable.

Juniper Jupiter

2008-08-08 5:41:25 PM

wichitaleaf: Juniper Jupiter

RELAX!

this happens to me once and a great while

i just kindly hand my receipt to the nice person(who is just doing their $7.00 an hour job) and let them check my bag

and go kindly on my way

saying to them, have a nice day.

everyone is pleasant and life is much more enjoyable.

I did relax! I was just saying the guy needed to be a little more couth was all. Hubby got a leetle bit offended, and that doesn't happen very often at all, and VERY PRIVATE, which happens ALL the time, LOL. I wasn't there when it went down. But you should here my "polite biatchy wife" tone...I only whip it out on special occasions. :D

coco ebert

2008-08-08 6:28:31 PM

I refuse to live according to lawsuit-based principles. fark that.

il Dottore

2008-08-08 7:49:19 PM

Neurochemist: I see something going down in public and I move quickly in the other direction.

After you yell at the guy giving somebody CPR at an accident scene to "get a haircut"? (happened to me)

Running the other way demonstrates a profound lack of social responsibility.

exi

2008-08-08 9:18:24 PM

Trippy man.

AeAe

2008-08-08 10:23:39 PM

abi in malam crucem: CheddarPants: For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
For evil to flourish, it only requires some idiot to think they are in the right, no matter what. -fixed

Evil is good intention gone wrong. The reason those good intentions go wrong is usually because people don't think. Evil=Stupidity.

What? Did you make that up? What about that child molester in FL that kidnapped, raped, and buried alive that 11 y.o. girl until she suffocated?

I don't that's "good intention gone wrong". that's just farking evil. And you are an idiot.

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