Posted on 06/25/2020 3:28:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
ANTIOCH, Calif. A customer suspected of stealing meat from a supermarket butcher Wednesday died following a fight with a store employee, police said.
A 56-year-old employee caught a 34-year-old customer behind the butcher area at the Lucky Supermarket around 10 p.m., KTVU reported.
The customer then attacked the employee. During the fight the customer stopped breathing. Medical technicians arrived and were unable to revive him.
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“Old man strength”
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Underestimate it at your own peril.
On the north side of 60 here. Got a call from a soil dump site that our spoil pile was blocking drainage from catch basins. Met up with a worker 23 years my junior to give me a hand. I surprised him by being able to flip up a 100# basin grate with one arm.
Old farts know how to lift things. Also know when not to. :)
Defund butchers. /sarc
They’ll probably torch the butcher shop.
No Justice, no Meat.
Sorry.
In order to qualify as a Customer one would actually need to buy something, not steal. I know with the media this is a distinction which mystifies them.
I wonder where you picked up that phrase.
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I think I picked it up in the Army in the '70's, can't remember exactly, didn't work in the oil patch, it's an interesting colloquialism though.
During the fight the customer stopped breathing.
Maybe the surprise of getting caught with the meat in his hands was just too much.
rwood
No “free” meat...no peace.
Instead of burning down the store...just steal the meat and light the store for a great BBQ.
Many people are strange.
Many people are strange.
Many people are strange.
Exactly......
A fifth grader could have reported this better.
Sheesh, not a customer but a thief and so what if he died?
Don’t make it sound like the employee killed him unless you’re sure he did.
Those cases of milk are heavy. Its weight training with pay. (Personally never worked in a grocery but did sling the full milk cans in and of the cooler.About 100 lbs each.Actually easier than 100lb sacks of feed.)
Having seen brats and others take time out of their live to lick ice cream and put it back among other such things its a distinct possibility, and not insulting.
Again, you can steal food without going behind the counter because the6 do put cuts on display anyplace Im familiar with. And whatever he was doing getting caught doing it led him to attack the employee ... so he was up to no good.
I’d give my right arm to know how the story ends.
Lol!
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