Posted on 10/21/2022 12:04:50 AM PDT by Morgana
An 82-year-old Home Depot worker was pushed to the ground by a thief after he tried to stop him from stealing power tools in North Carolina.
The unidentified victim was working the outside station booth in what appears to be the garden area at a Hillsborough Home Depot on Tuesday when he noticed a man in a dark hoodie rolling a cart full of power tools.
The man can be seen slowly approaching the suspect, who has not been identified, and placing a gentle hand on the man's arm.
Surveillance footage shows the suspect, who was wearing a black Calvin Klein sweatshirt and a mask, thrust a forceful arm across the older man's shoulders, shoving him to the ground as he kept walking.
The man falls into a potted plant and struggles to stand up. Police reported the man was 'injured,' but it is unclear the extent of them.
The suspect rolled out what appeared to be stealing a Ryobi 1900 PSI Electric Pressure Washer, which retails for $179; a 2700 PSI Brushless Electric Pressure Washer, which retails for $419; and a 2000 PSI Electric Pressure Washer, which retails for $239.
Police said the suspect fled the scene in a white, four-door, Hyundai Sonata with a 'blank' temporary tag.
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I ‘d be fine if they gunned this thug down. Subhuman doesn’t deserve to live among civilized people.
I bet the thief wonders who his dad is also.
Check the demongraphic. The thief wonders that same thing.
Guess this means I could get a five finger discount on one of those rolling tool boxes I’ve been looking at.
After I steal it I wonder if the associates will be kind enough to load it onto my truck?
Quite the opposite. While there is the “other side of the tracks” it is a relatively small area. A lot more young professionals (is “yuppies” still a thing?) and hipsters buying up the older homes downtown. And still more country folks. HD is a few minutes to the south heading toward Chapel Hill.
Quite a few from Chapel Hill prefer to drive the extra 15 minutes than go to the closer “more urban” store on 15-501 between Chapel Hill and Durham. Not really “urban” to most people but it does require a little more situational awareness, as it were.
But, Ryobi? Seriously? I mean if you are going to take something of value, Ryobi would not be anywhere near the top of the list... even at Home Depot.
It looks like the BLM Boyz have adopted a modified PIT maneuver.
The PERP will try to return these pressure washers to another Home Depot and get a store credit because he “lost” his receipt.
I sent Mr. GG2 to some aisle in the grocery store yesterday while I waited for deli meats to be cut. He rounded the corner of the aisle and some guy had a handful of stuff he was getting ready to put in his jacket pockets. He saw Mr. GG2’s concealed carry badge on his belt which I guess he thought was law enforcement and he dumped everything back on the shelf and slink off down the aisle.
A few years ago I was in my local HD here in NH. They had one of the Porter Cable pancake air compressor/nail gun combo boxes on an end cap marked down to $150. The employee said it was returned and there was nothing wrong with it. I offered the manager $100 and he sold it to me including a full warranty.
I brought it home and pulled it in. The air immediately started leaking out of the bottom of the tank where the purge valve was busted off. I boxed it up and returned it the next day.
When I brought it in to the service desk they checked the SKU # to the one on the out side of the box. They were different. The one on the compressor was from two years previous. The box was from two months ago. So, somebody had bought a new one, switched it for the old one and returned it.
I said to the clerk, wow what a scum bag move. She said that was nothing. Stuff like that happened all the time. The worst one was when somebody tried to return an air conditioner at the end of the summer. The box looked new. All taped up. Customer did not have a receipt. When she opened the AC box there were two cinder blocks inside. The guy returning it said: “how did those get in there?” and walked out the door.
If more white people started doing this shoplifting thing maybe the stores will start to wake up. I want to know if I walked into Home Depot and took a couple electric saws, will they try to stop me or report me? What they are doing is so wrong on many different levels. Theft loss ends up in higher prices for the consumers. That is not fair to their customers but it seems they don’t care.
So we had to sell a $200 toilet for $80.
There's a reason I no longer work at Home Depot.
Brick and mortars stores outside of WASPish areas make no sense; so much of what we’ve built up is made for moral people with a certain minumum IQ. This operating model doesn’t work with low-IQ people.
I’m not a WASP, but appreciate the system they designed.
You can take an animal out of the jungle but you can’t take the jungle out of the animal.
Only some people self tame
color not an issue
Home Depot management considers that there is nothing in the stores worth getting injured or killed for. They instruct employees not to directly interfere with a shoplifter (although they do respond with appreciation when a clever employee is able to thwart a theft without contact). The stores are full of video cameras, and the company would rather assemble video evidence of a theft to present to the state’s attorney rather than have some untrained employee get into a fight with a thief. Home Depot does assist in the prosecution of many thieves.
Yes it is regional. There are stores with no Loss Prevention staff. The thieves know which ones those are.
I work at Home Depot ALL of our stores have loss prevention, they can TRY to stop someone HOWEVER if the thief continues out the door they are not allowed to stop them!! In Ca. if the theft is less than $1000.00 the police won’t even come out and make a report, the loss prevention person can get the license # of the car and that is it!! EVERYTHING in the store is now locked behind cages if a customer wants a tool or lawn equipment we have to block the cage get the product and walk them to the register while we have the product in OUR possession until at the register!! A HUGE pain in the ass however it is the ONLY way to control theft!! There are stores where you can not buy ANYTHING without getting someone to unlock cabinets and walk you to the register, simple things like shampoo, razors, hand lotion ect. This is what legislators do to businesses and customers just trying to shop, because criminals DESERVE to be able to STEAL a $1000.00 worth of product with NO CONSEQUENCES!!!
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