Posted on 11/23/2021 3:00:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Costa Mesa police are searching for robbers – at least one with a handgun – who ran onto the patio of the Seasons 52 restaurant at South Coast Plaza at dinnertime, ordered everyone to get down, and then stole a purse before fleeing Monday night.
Witnesses told police three to five people wearing masks and dressed in black clothes entered the patio and told everyone to get on the floor, Fyad said.
A couple of diners dove into a nearby rose bush. Others dropped to the ground and some had scrapes and bruises to show for it, a man later tweeted. The diner, who did not want to be named in a news story, said one victim lost a family heirloom.
The diner, who also did not want to be named, saying he fears for his safety, said he and three friends were enjoying dinner at the restaurant after playing in a charity golf tournament when one of the friends saw two people who looked suspicious.
They were wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks and entered the restaurant patio through a side gate. One of them had a handgun, he said, and he heard, “Get down.” As the suspects continued forward, he and a friend jumped over a wall and into a rose bush.
The person with the gun pointed it at another table, the diner said. He was not sure if the second suspect also had a gun.
“It was really quick, I would say three minutes and then we heard tires screeching (from the lower parking lot),” he said. “Luckily they didn’t fire the gun.”
The incident follows similar high-profile armed robberies in Beverly Hills and on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles earlier this year, where suspects approached outdoor dining areas and robbed customers at gunpoint.
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This stuff is really bad for business—especially since brick and mortar retail is heavily dependent on Christmas shoppers to keep them in business.
Every story like this encourages shoppers to stay home and shop online.
Respectfully, this area is not part of the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TeuCiKIic8
Thank you.
a Louis?
Agreed. I read that a lot of retailers prefer the migration, as their losses are so high due to theft. The big guys (Wal Mart, Target) would rather compete with Amazon, than America’s Most Wanted.
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“I’m guessing these perps get rolled up pretty quickly. No way LEO in this part of town allow this kind of stuff to get momentum. It will be a full court press with everything they have.”
Naah. Need to give the legality challenged room to rob and destroy.
I'm sure the limousine liberals have already placed a few phone calls to the mayor and police chief telling them to keep the trash out. It was all good when it was Walgreens, Target and Waffle House. But Neiman Marcus, Louis Vuitton, and Seasons 52? That's their red line.
Respectfully, not in South Coast Plaza. Thanks.
Limousine, yes. Liberal, no. The airport is named after John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan’s political career was launched here.
Not as staunch as back in those days, but not liberal. Thanks.
In LA County, all men in banks and restaurants are supposed to be masked. That's why I try to stay in Orange County. However, I did venture west of the Orange Curtain last Friday and had lunch at Shenanigans, a bar and grill in Long Beach, where only the staff were wearing masks.
“ Respectfully, this area is not part of the problem”
With equal respect and deference, they are a problem. They’re living in a deep blue state and their presence there is more and more untenable. They are targets of convenience.
seriously we need more good people carrying guns.....
I’ve never shot at any alive thing except maybe a grouse and I missed.....but, if I carried a gun, which I don’t, I would certainly use it come hell or high water....
Thank you; we agree to disagree - Freegards !
the story doesn’t give the sex OR race of the robbers. We’re such a stupid country right now.
The OC Register has become so PC it sickens. Like the old U.S.S.R., you get your information from what they don’t tell you . . .
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Best case might be that that it was a firearm not traceable to you that fell out of the pocket of one of the perps.
Lots of Asian Americans in OC. Like Jews, they vote against their best interest on account of the MSM telling them that Republicans are racist, sexist, homo and transphobic antisemites.
I think the OC register is now owned by the LA times.
Louis Vuitton
No, they were sold a few years ago, but not to The Times. Almost as bad, though . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_First_Media#Daily_newspapers
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