Posted on 08/23/2019 7:36:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. - A shoplifting incident took a troubling turn recently in New Jersey. Police said three women participated in the crime and they made a mistake that helped authorities track two of them down.
One of them walked in with a child and left them in the store after committing the crime.
The owner of Bambi Baby shared his surveillance video with WCBS, which showed the three women as they walked in with three children just after 5 p.m. Friday.
One of the women spent several minutes attempting to collapse a stroller before leaving with it, but she accidentally left behind the one thing she came in with: a child.
"What I take major offense to, is the children. Don't do that with your children. If you need to steal for a living that's a personal problem, personal issue, when you bring children that have no idea what's going on. That affected me," said store owner Enelio Ortega.
Ortega said almost six minutes went by before one of the women returned for the young child.
The store manager, Justin, said shoplifting is rare there, "We haven't had any issues here at this store. I was like, devastated that someone would leave their child in a store to worry more about stealing a stroller."
What makes this even stranger, the shoplifters were from England and stole an English stroller that would've been cheaper to buy overseas.
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If you need to steal for a living that’s a personal problem, personal issue, when you bring children that have no idea what’s going on. That affected me,” said store owner Enelio Ortega.
This guy is ok with someone stealing “for a living”? He’s a business owner and would be ok with them stealing from him, as long as they left the children at home? Is this a correct quote? Really??
It’s OK as long as you leave the kiddies at home.
This is New Jersey you know.
“the shoplifters were from England”
Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed that from the headline.
So, they're ragheads?
How many children? Sheesh, where are the copy editors these days?
White girls behaving badly. English or Irish names. Possible Travellers but maybe just criminal English.
Really too bad that people are so disconnected from each other. There are probably some people out there that would help a family in need and buy (or help purchase) the stroller for them — grandparents, extended family, friends, the church.
Likely a liberal who is trying, very very hard, to assimilate all the instructions from his party... He knows it’s wrong, but he’s been told by other liberals it’s okay too. Can’t be woke if you reject the liberal line...
If they were Brits, then they stole a pram, not a stroller.
They probably came over to the States as tourists with out any stroller and stole one out of a store the first chance they got and will abandon it before they go back.
When I read the headine my first thought was, “It would be much worse to steal a child and leave behind the stroller?”
England, like any welfare state, has an expanding population of criminals.
How do you think they have low crime rates in UK? All they need is to decriminalize burglary and rape and it would improve further.
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