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Brazen Oregon Lowe's shoplifters push carts laden with $2,000 of copper cable in latest example of 'legalized stealing' in lenient Dem states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9965833/Shoplifters-steal-thousands-dollars-worth-electrical-wires-Lowes-Oregon.html ^

Posted on 09/07/2021 1:20:15 PM PDT by algore

Two men brazenly walked out of an Oregon Lowe's store pushing a shopping cart filled with electrical wire before loading it into a waiting getaway car as helpless store workers looked on in the latest incident of 'legalized stealing' in Democratic states.

The pair picked products like spools of wire valued at $2,000 - presumably to strip it for the valuable copper inside - from a Lowe's in Keizer, a suburb of Salem, on August 25.

Keizer Police confirmed to DailyMail.com that they were investigating the incident, but no arrests have been made and the men have not been publicly identified

Once you've stolen from Lowe's once and know they can't stop you, there's no real consequence,' Keizer Police Lieutenant Andrew Copeland told Fox News, noting employees at many chain stores aren't allowed to stop shoplifters.

'Second thing is, these people know they can't go to jail.'

The video is the latest example of shoplifters simply walking out of stores with armfuls of goods, knowing there is little officials can do to prosecute them, after a string of similar incidents in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: algore

And retarded liberals (I know, repetitive) wonder how they get “deserts” with no food stores, etc.


41 posted on 09/07/2021 2:03:24 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: algore

What is really important..... were these shoplifters masked and vaccinated? Now that can get them in some real trouble.


42 posted on 09/07/2021 2:03:31 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: algore

They likely figure that 500 foot roll of #12 Romex (in the picture) is a bit large to stuff into one’s pockets.

But it is partially their fault for not upgrading their security systems in response to the Soros gang taking over ‘justice’ in that part of the country. In this case it would have been fun to watch them deal with a shopping cart with wheel locks, or secondary doors that slam shut, given these twerps.


43 posted on 09/07/2021 2:03:35 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

To hell with Ft Sumter.

When’s fort DC?


44 posted on 09/07/2021 2:05:09 PM PDT by crz
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To: algore

They’re stealing copper so they can turn it in to a metal recycling center...and likely then go out and buy drugs with it.

Several years ago, some copper thieves actually stole FOUR MILES of copper wire from INSIDE the concrete track supports of the newly-constructed Seattle light rail system. They climbed inside the supports through access hatches during the night over several months. It was likely for the same reason: drug money.


45 posted on 09/07/2021 2:09:24 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: crz
I was speaking metaphorically, but I like yours too.😁

CC

46 posted on 09/07/2021 2:19:56 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

When the great seige of DC went on after the storming of the DC Bastille, I was thinking.

WTF would they have done if a guy got dressed up as a construction guy, had a D6 unloaded on a street up there and simply used it to destroy them road barriers.


47 posted on 09/07/2021 2:27:16 PM PDT by crz
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To: TigersEye
 
 
Home Depot has the same policy. Both Home Depot and Lowes both get looted on a regular basis around here. And I'm in Central Texas.
 
 

48 posted on 09/07/2021 2:29:08 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: algore

I’d shoot these maggots on sight! I’d have no problem blowing their brains out!


49 posted on 09/07/2021 2:29:52 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: ClearCase_guy

I have a Filipino bud in my circle who told me just recently he was at the train station at Hollywood and Western and 2 BLM types had a huge stash of clothes with tags, and they removing them right beside him. He stayed away a distance bec. he didnt want to be an accessory due to the cameras but connecting the dots, the only 2 apparel stores outside the station are Ross and Marshalls.


50 posted on 09/07/2021 2:30:09 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: BobL
They could chain up that much Romex. I would.

51 posted on 09/07/2021 2:33:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: BobL

“If you do a search for this story, you’ll find that the Daily Mail, conservative sites, and one very local newspaper is reporting this.”

I just had argument with an idiot Freeper stating that DM is a lefty site. Had to ‘educate’ this genius that if he had a long memory like I do (roll the FR archives) , the ONLY TWO MEDIA ON SITE who were reporting the Iraq War 2003-2007 FACTUALLY were the DM and Telegraph...and they’re not even American.


52 posted on 09/07/2021 2:34:44 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: lapsus calami

I need a good chest freezer too. Which I could fill with new tools and plumbing fixtures before I wheel it out. :)

I’m in northern Colorado. The employees might not chase me out of the store but I’m pretty sure the local cops would chase me on my way home.


53 posted on 09/07/2021 2:35:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
What I don’t understand is why these big businesses tolerate these type of laws.

Probably along the lines of all monopolistic practices: the big stores can tolerate the loss until all the little guys are run out of business. Then the big guys swallow them up and get their bought-and-paid-for lackies in the government to reinstitute theft laws.
54 posted on 09/07/2021 2:36:01 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: algore

How Lowe can these thieves get?


55 posted on 09/07/2021 2:49:12 PM PDT by Old Yeller (We're a nation of surprisingly talented people run by the least talented of us.)
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To: TigersEye
 
 
LoL!!! As for getting chased by cops, if the companies will not allow filing charges, the cops won't respond. I remember the time a manager at the Home Depot flipped out from a wave of theft that hit his store and angrily called 911 on thieves that had fled with a basket load of loot. Patrol shift supervisor asked "are they gonna file charges?", the answer was "no", and so there was no response. Theoretically thieves could load up a waiting 18 wheeler but the cops aren't gonna get involved unless the company is willing to file charges. Never expected the collapse of society to take a track like this, but here it is.
 
 

56 posted on 09/07/2021 2:58:50 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
57 posted on 09/07/2021 3:17:07 PM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

no nearly, we are out.


58 posted on 09/07/2021 3:28:43 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: algore

We need to do the same at pharmacies for Ivermectin.


59 posted on 09/07/2021 3:53:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone (In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
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To: algore; All

I wonder if a few blokes “stole”the copper roll from him, would there be any problem? Asking for a friend you know.


60 posted on 09/07/2021 4:02:43 PM PDT by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals... get fed up with people sometimes.)
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