Posted on 12/26/2022 12:06:35 PM PST by Red Badger
Chad Steward, the owner of Laced Connection, has only been in business for about a year.
The entrepreneurial businessman seems to have done his due diligence in terms of taking wise precautions to protect his products.
The types of high-end footwear that he sells include Nikes, Air Jordans, Adidas, and Yeezys, according to The Blaze.
Unfortunately, in spite of all his efforts, Steward’s store was still burglarized and robbed back on Oct. 28, according to a Fort Worth Police Department report.
The surveillance video from his store shows the rapid actions of the crooks searching, pulling boxes off of shelves, and bagging up what they wanted.
They went through quite the effort to get through the many security measures that Steward put in place.
“I think they came through this fenced area over here. They originally came over here to this bathroom window,” Steward told KDFW in a video interview.
He reasoned that they must have either kicked the window or punched it, which broke the glass, but they weren’t able to get in.
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So they moved on to a door.
“It was two double padlocks. They had to of have taken a crowbar,” Steward said.
That door only led to a back room with some of his stock, and not to the actual showroom. That part of the store was protected by another steel gate.
“It would have taken them a good while to get into this part of the store. I’m thankful I had the preventatives I did,” Steward said.
When the three thieves finally paused long enough in the surveillance video to look inside the boxes, that was when they got surprised by yet another of Steward’s security measures.
There was only one right shoe in each box.
“I had bars, security alarms from day one. I talked to previous people I knew in this industry that had stores, and they told me that’s one of the most important things to prevent things like this,” Steward said.
When the thieves realized there was only one shoe in each box, they still took off with what they had.
In the end, they still got away with thousands in merchandise.
Steward has posted the surveillance video on his Instagram page, in the hopes that it will help with catching the thieves.
Started off on the wrong foot, eh?
PoPo: Be on the lookout for three one-legged thieves!.............
A right shoe and a dye pack would have been better. Maybe some skunk spray too.
Need fake shoe.
Homeless discards.
They obviously left the work boots alone.
Thank you journalism school
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He loss thousands, damage to his store. If that’s the last laugh, it wasn’t really worth it., in my opinion.
Now, now, let's not be too hard on the school. Granted, this urinalist could have done a much better job, but it wasn't entirely bogus.
The thieves took items (right shoes) which were worth "thousands" of dollars to the merchant, because he had the other (left) shoes somewhere and could have sold them. But the right shoes were "worthless" to them because they can't sell them as a pair.
As in many similar crimes, the value of the items stolen is much higher to the rightful owner than to the thief.
Still took thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.
PoPo: Be on the lookout for three one-legged thieves!.............
ROTFLMBO!!!
The store owner is racist for not letting the thug’s take what they deserve.
Something that falls apart after three 'wears'. That way the complaints go up the chain of command... and criminals are much worse than our 'weak sister' judicial system.
Ride my Harley to the beach wearing shoes.
Inside my sling bag are my flippies.
Once at the beach,I switch from shoes to flippies.
My sling bag is small so no room for shoes.
I leave one shoe under my bike and put the other in the sling bag, figuring it’ll have to be a one legged homeless man and the one good leg would have to match the shoe I leave.
Wouldn’t ya know it...last time I did this, a one legged homeless guy rolled by as I was changing and his one good leg was the same shoe I was planning to leave at the bike.
I gave him $20 and left the other shoe.
Sometimes the Creator gives you a sign =o)
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“As in many similar crimes, the value of the items stolen is much higher to the rightful owner than to the thief.”
Plus the cost of the repairs and security upgrades he’ll be making.
This could actually end up being a blessing for the store owner. When word gets around what the thieves had to go through and ended up with only one shoe per pair any others considering hitting his place will look for softer targets.
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