DUmmies Discuss Shoplifting - Consensus Achieved

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy rsmithnumbers, one of the DUmp's most prolific, but alas, untalented, bouncemeisters spins a tale about a high-dollar shoplifter. The discussion boils down to a common thief versus a retail store. Guess which side the DUmp takes:

rsmith6621 (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 07:34 PM
Original message
Just Watched Someone Shoplift A Bunch.....

Went to Safeway an hour ago to get some milk. While there I noticed a friend of mine who is in security lurkin around and endcap looking toward the meat department when WHAM BAM he and another security dude took off running. They were chasing a 20 something women with a large purse bag. They chased her out the doors and stopped her in the parking lot.

I was there to see her brought in to the security office and then about 10 minutes later my friend brought out 15 family packs of T-Bones each probably valued at $50.00 pre club card savings. He saw me and came over to see how my healing was going from my recent surgery, I said rough day at the office, he said ya they are having on average 6 shoplifting events a day the store in the past 6 weeks shoplifting has gone up 300% and they have added a few more personal[sic].

I asked is it proportional to the economy he said actually yes and he is fearing what could happen over the next two months if things don't pick up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1686200
Fifteen family packs of T-bone steaks! This shoplifter handled more meat than Horse with no Brain on the first Saturday night of the month!

tblue (1000+ posts)       Sun Aug-07-11 09:18 PM
Response to Reply #1
19. Throw the book at the Wall Streeters first.
 Then BP and Massey mines, the frackers, the torturers, the criminal war and Interior dept. contractors, the fascists in state houses trying to take down unions. Then maybe we can go after the lady who stole some food.

 
 

sabrina 1  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-07-11 09:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
23. We still have laws like that in this country?
Laws against theft? Great! When will be seeing 'security' arrive on Wall St.??

RaleighNCDUer  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 07:39 PM
Response to Original message
3. Great News! The economy is turning around!
 "...they have added a few more personal."

izquierdista (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-07-11 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. The proceeds of which,
would feed her and her family longer than if she took the same weight of rice.

I wonder how often these desperate, hungry DUmmies steal rice or dried beans. Maybe...never?

 

coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 07:40 PM
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5. He and his security guard colleague probably have way more in
common with the person they detained than either has or ever will have with the shareholders and executives of Safeway.

As the 19th-century French anarchist Proudhon said, "(All) property is theft" ("La propriete, c'est le vol.")

 
Anyone who tries to stop theft is a sucker.

WorseBeforeBetter  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 07:51 PM
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8. She should have swung by the seafood counter to make it surf 'n turf night.
I feel sympathetic toward those who are truly suffering, but 15 family packs of T-bones is a bit questionable.

oldlib  (465 posts)        Sun Aug-07-11 07:52 PM
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9. This is a sad time  
for America. People are driven to shoplifting to feed their families. On a daily basis I see these people at the
markets with barely enough to pay for their needs. This economy has reached the dreadful status of the Great Depression.

DUmmy oldlib is obviously stupider than he is old. He has no conception of what the Great Depression was like.


DUmmy Shandris, whoevere that is, serves as the DUmp's shoplifting coach:

Shandris (912 posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 07:58 PM
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11. It's highly possible she didn't live nearby...
 ...and couldn't come back every 6 hours to get a fresh can of cat food for her family to eat that meal. Jesus Christ, do some of you hear yourselves? "What?! It wasn't cat food! No sympathy!". With meat amounts like that, she was going to sell it, freeze what she had left, and buy proper (read: not ****ing cat food) food for her family.

Yes, it was a bit on the big side. Hell, it was very much on the big side. And why not? In this day of constant surveillance, you better make off with your haul the first time, cuz there won't be a second.

The Trailer Park  Boys called this "the big dirty".

ZombieHorde  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 08:00 PM
Response to Original message
12. My...
 My_spacebar_is_broken,_so_I_am_using_underscores.

She_should_have_carried_pepper_spray.

I_wonder_if_the_men_who_chased_her_have_illegal_files_on_their_computers.

That's really irritating and offensive - both the opinon and the stupid underscores.

Lyric  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 08:27 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. Why would you think that?
 Logic says that if you steal 50 lbs of steak and sell them for $5 a pound, you're making a lot more than the value of a 50 lb bag of rice or beans. You could buy TEN bags of rice and beans for that amount.

Or a bag of weed and some forties.

Aerows  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 09:25 PM
Response to Original message
21. You don't steal T-Bones to feed a family
You steal T-Bones to sell/trade to somebody else to get money. Thanks to her, prices for all of us feeding our families the right way, go up.

Ah, DUmmy Aerows, stay thirsty, my hen.

in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 09:33 PM
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22. At least it was food and not makeup or something stupid.
T-Bones though.....champaign[sic] taste on a water budget. I actually feel sorry for anyone who feels they have to steal to eat.  
How the hell could she carry 15 family packs of steak in a purse? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. BIG purse.

Well, now, when I'm in Central Illinois, there's a buffet I like in Urbana. Don't know what the tastes are like in
Champaign, but I'm sure you can get champagne, if that's what you want.
 

DUmmy Firenumber has a brainstorm on a unique shoplifting method:

Fire1  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-07-11 09:45 PM
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25. Is it true if you eat the food in the store, they can't arrest you?
Heard that about a year ago when a mother was feeding her kids in the grocery isle of some grocery store.

Codeine  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 09:51 PM
Response to Reply #25
28. Like hell we can't.
If someone eats a couple grapes or cherry tomatoes nobody cares, but if you're eating our merchandise in such quantity
as to affect our bottom line you will be arrested and we will press charges.

DUmmy Codeine sounds like a repuke, with that "bottom line" bullshit.

Codeine  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-07-11 09:52 PM
Response to Original message
29. Shoplifting is a nonstop scourge in the grocery industry.
People will steal our shit regardless of the economic climate.

Yep, repuke for sure.


 

 

[BattleHymn]

Fire1  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-07-11 09:45 PM
Response to Original message
25. Is it true if you eat the food in the store, they can't arrest you?
Heard that about a year ago when a mother was feeding her kids in the grocery isle of some grocery store

Only on the Isle of Grocery.   

[Delmar]

tblue (1000+ posts)       Sun Aug-07-11 09:18 PM
Response to Reply #1
19. Throw the book at the Wall Streeters first.
 Then BP and Massey mines, the frackers, the torturers, the criminal war and Interior dept. contractors, the fascists in state houses trying to take down unions. Then maybe we can go after the lady who stole some food.

They need to get those old Code Pink hags that were always trying to slap the cuffs on Rove and Rummy on the case.

[BattleHymn]

I just asked the spousal unit about the per annum thefts for her store:


2008:   9 shoplifters

2009:   9 shoplifters

2010:  26 shoplifters

2011 (up to 08/01):  37 shoplifters


Clearly, this is Bush's fault.

[JohnnyReb]

I just asked the spousal unit about the per annum thefts for her store:


2008:   9 shoplifters

2009:   9 shoplifters

2010:  26 shoplifters

2011 (up to 08/01):  37 shoplifters


Clearly, this is Bush's fault.

9+9=18 potatoes ....and the letter "P" is 4 letters short of being 18 letters from the letter "B"....so you add the number of letters in Bush's name to the number of letters between "B" and "P" and you get 14+4  equals 18 .... which mathematically proves it's Bush's fault....and this also proves that the DUmp is the home of the reality based community and the mostest smartest people in the world.

[Karin]

9+9=18 potatoes ....and the letter "P" is 4 letters short of being 18 letters from the letter "B"....so you add the number of letters in Bush's name to the number of letters between "B" and "P" and you get 14+4  equals 18 .... which mathematically proves it's Bush's fault....

We used to get Muslims on Faithfreedom.org forum using numbers like this to prove the existence of Allah.  And the infallibility of Mohammed.  Pretty funny. 

Codiene has been a thorn in their sides for ages...he either pokes fun at them or deflates their lamebrained ideas.  I'm surprised he's still alive. 

So Rsmith has had surgery.  He needs to get back to work on his bouncy tales which I enjoy; complete with atrocious spelling, grammar and sentence structure, and plot constructs which paint him and his wife as complete assholes.   

[vesta111]

Interesting subject, I had a coworker arrested for shoplifting and her excuse was she had the money to pay for the items so this was a mistake.  Sure tell me about it.  

Then another coworker swore that some other shopper perhaps a child in a carriage had dropped stuff in her purse. Happens all the time, those tots are dangerous.

Now to the goodie, a well known woman of senior age went into a store and bought a $500. coat.  As she was leaving security stopped her at the door and tried to detain her, they were wearing tee shirts and jeans.

She thought she was being robbed by Vandals and fought back shrieking and naturally outher customers ran to her aid.   Her 60 year old husband was waiting at the door for her and saw his wife being attacked and ran in to save her with a shopping cart he rammed into every one.    

One hell of a mess, customers were trying to help her, her husband charging with the cart any one near his wife, ------some how in the melee the bag with the coat disappeared.

It turned out the cashier forgot to remove the security Giszmo and it set off an alarm.

About 6 months later the old couple came to visit my family in a very expensive sports car.  They had just come back from a weeks cruise in the south seas, the woman's ribs broken in the past affair had healed, and they were headed off to Europe, thanks to Bradleys and the Cashier who was amiss.

Then we had a odd story about a man who tried to shop lift live lobsters and put them in his pants.

[ScubaGuy]

Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-08-11 12:01 AM
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50. I see people stealing all the time and I don't care.
   
Really.

Why would I care that a company is losing profits? Seriously.

In that case don't piss and moan about any increase in grocery prices to compensate for that theft, idiot!

[Karin]

That guy again!  We've seen him before.  He quite plainly approves of theft.  I hope he gets arrested soon. 

[vesta111]

That guy again!  We've seen him before.  He quite plainly approves of theft.  I hope he gets arrested soon. 

Very hard to get away with shoplifting today. Gone are the days when security was just one or two people on the floor watching and  perhaps and couple cameras sending pictures to  a 2-3 people in a back Room  that may or not be watching., on their break , eating lunch or reading a book.

Then there are the foul ups-------I was pricing dog food at Wallmart and this man came past me with a bunch of stuff in his cart.  He caught my attention when he went out a fire door and alarms went off.

Holy crap, I stood right where I was expecting to see security come running by.   The alarm kept going off and not one person came to check it.    For a good 5 minutes I waited to see what would happen next and nothing happend, the alarm kept sounding but  I was alone in the dog food section.   

No one was in charge of that section, I could have loaded up a years supplies of dog food and walked out the door, myself.

Now for the small stores that depend on cameras, like I said some people find a way around the and think they can get away with stealing, some do, but the idiots that put live lobsters in their pants and walk out are my favorite idiots, --Life goes on those that steal are soon forgotten, but for the rest of their life the  lobster thief's family and friends will never forget the lobster incident.

[compaqxp]

That topic makes me sad, how the hell can they excuse shoplifting and stealing from stores? These are the same people who are complaining about prices going upon stuff too. Not to mention using lame excuses to try and justify it. Sad to think they really are that stupid.

The electronics store I buy a lot of stuff from as this very issue and being a small business they have to recoup the cost somehow I guess the dummies don't realise we all pay for shoplifters.

Tell me, are any of these people trying to feed a family? Link

Lets be honest about this and understand most people won't be stealing food, they'll be like the people in the link above.

Idiots.

[Tantal]

In that case don't piss and moan about any increase in grocery prices to compensate for that theft, idiot!

And they wonder why their food stamps don't last as long as they used to.

[GOBUCKS]

I guess the dummies don't realise we all pay for shoplifters.

They don't pay. I think this DUmp thread makes it pretty clear that they ARE the shoplifters.