Posted on 02/28/2024 3:11:04 PM PST by dennisw
This is refreshing. Regular folks stop a shoplifter at a Home Depot in Vermont as he tries to get away with a cart full of stolen goods. He forgot he wasn’t in San Francisco.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1762661942848827817
Lots of F bombs flying as the HD thief gets thwarted and abused
It would be a lot more refreshing if local government did it’s damn job and punished offenders so they didn’t try this kind of crap in the first place.
“ This will backfire on said do-gooders.
We are not in America anymore.”
No.
They did the right thing and we all need to do similar things.
Maybe the rules are different if you are the lone person in a city like San Francisco, but in most of country this is the right action.
May that comfort your family when you get stabbed over items from a faggot loving corporation.
"Please, kind sir, drop those items you have misappropriated." You would have preferred that?
God bless them. Do you guys think this happened only because the thief was white?
There's a business opportunity for the cartels. Let's say you own a store in El Paso. You'll pay protection money to Sinaloa Cartel. They'll "take care" of thieves who've been robbing all the stores in El Paso. El Paso Police will look the other way because they won't have to deal with law and order themselves.
“It’s VT. They’re all white.”
That’s raciss, I demand more diversity!
That’s the way efficiency works. Not bogged down by review boards and held back by worries about trials of the police for being harsh to criminals.
There is right and wrong.
Enjoy getting shot over some corporate write off.
Your corporate write off is consumer price inflation, not corporate loss.
IMO there is growing sentiment like in the movie Network "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore".
PS Some of us might return fire. 28 states are now 2A carry states. I'll bet that alone, deters this type of behavior.
About twenty years ago the ownership of urban independent stores began shifting to Arab immigrants. Once a store was bought additional Arab and African immigrants were brought in to man the actual operation of the business. I’ve seen this done over and over. In the Cincinnati market 90% of ghetto retail has been flipped this way. The Koreans have done the same thing for much of urban hair care merchandise (weaves and such). Generally, Arab ownership is very aggressive in protecting their merchandise. I have seen fist fights to gun play in such instances. I can only speak of what I’ve seen. From Cincinnati to Detroit, up the I 75 corridor, this is what I’ve seen.
I’m just surprised they had a 40 gallon trash can for $1.00 or now a $1.25bsince everything is the same price. Trash cans are now insanely priced, $50-$100
Not refreshing until Americans start acting like this on a widescale daily basis.
It used to be like that in NYC and other big cities. If you wanted your business to be protected, you had to pay the Mob. Later it became a racket.
Per my recollection, Howard Beale got put in his place in the end.
If you want to get in a gun fight over Home Depot goods, enjoy yourself.
If lawyers, police, and Home Depot do nothing, I do nothing.
Per my recollection, Howard Beale got put in his place in the end.
But he was right on....
“We’re in a lot of trouble!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eT8QF6L1pk
This speech is more relevant today.
Where in Vermont? Rutland...Bennington..?
But only old people will see, or have seen, that speech.
It’s too late now.
The US is far worse off than 1976.
A fantastic movie though.
And the Arthur Jensen scene.
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. BEALE!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XeyBd_IuA
A lot of the problem with a shoplifter will depend on whether or not he/she is armed, co-conspirators present, or if Mr. or Mrs. do-gooder is alone or armed. Several ways it could go down. I would like to see the perp detained every time, but that may not be feasible. If it looks very good for a perp takedown, then maybe it needs to happen as often as it looks like a good possibility.. The idea here is to try to discourage other would-be criminals.
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