Posted on 05/01/2023 12:22:23 PM PDT by grundle
Whole Foods' recently closed flagship store in San Francisco was the site of thefts, assaults, and a deadly overdose in the 13 months it was open.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that the store was the scene of hundreds of calls to emergency services and 14 arrests, according to police reports. Last September, a man died due to an overdose of fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to the reports seen by the Times.
Visitors to the store also threatened security guards with knives and, in one case, sprayed employees with foam from a fire extinguisher, according to the Times. In another case, a customer tried to "defecate on the floor," per the Times.
Thefts were also common, with patrons stealing alcohol, food from the hot bar, and even hundreds of hand baskets meant to be used while shopping in the store, the story says.
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I predict the mafia will make a comeback. As leftists make cities ungovernable, people will seek protection for their livelihoods elsewhere. Unfortunately, next time it won't be Catholic Italians, like in the movies.
How come people act like that?
IOW, a leftist success story. They all seem to have sudden tragic endings. Real Dickens that creeps up on you after you thought you were reading Babbar Books. All fun and games until Babbar’s zoo friends all starve to death in rail cars on their way to nowhere to be set free!
To some people, defecation is a sexual activity.
In other words, the typical day in a Democrat Utopia.
What are you talking about? They're not people.
Welcome to the Hotel Newsomfornia.
Trying?
As Yoda says, "There is no try. There is only do or not do.";-)
Generally speaking however, you did get the protection you paid for. If anybody vandalized your business or stole from you while you were making your "monthly payments", chances are that the mob would do something about it fairly quickly. Perpetrator's legs would get broken and they probably would never be seen again in that neighborhood.
NOOOO! “14 Arrests?” How dare they?
Sounds like parts of the Atlanta area
That’s pretty much how that works. Of civil society fails to reign in bad behavior it creates a power vacuum which is where the mob would come in. Gangs will divide territory and protect it. The become the law and order in the absence of law and order. The Left crave this outcome they create the problem, sell themselves as the solution and blame Republicans through different angles of attack. There’s no downside for the Leftist elites who will continue to do whatever they like and be insulated from the results of their failed policies. These days Animal farm is a road map rather than a warning.
I seriously doubt they were "customers?"
This is what a collapsed society looks like. Now what is going on in Taiwan and Ukraine, that’s what really matters.
San Francisco now has a headstone.
Tony Accordo’s case:
‘’ Feeling disrespected and unappreciated, a rogue Chicago Outfit burglary crew robbed the suburban mansion of longtime crime boss Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo. It happened 40 years ago this month, in the early morning hours of January 6, 1978.
The fallout was swift and savage. A protégé of Prohibition-era boss Al Capone, Accardo ordered a combined 10 revenge slayings and cover-up murders tied to the daring predawn break-in.
The price for the misdeed would be paid in blood. Bodies began dropping within days.
Accardo was vacationing in California at the time of the robbery. He had recently instructed a burglary crew led by associate John Mendell to return a bundle of cash, gold and diamonds acquired in a jewelry store heist pulled off in the days before Christmas 1977. The store was owned by a friend of Accardo — a Jewish bookie paying the Big Tuna protection money. Mendell decided to show his extreme displeasure by brazenly robbing the ritzy, well-manicured estate built by the legendary Outfit kingpin more than a decade earlier.
It proved an ill-conceived endeavor, and it didn’t take long for Accardo to seek his proverbial pound of flesh.
An expert at deactivating complex alarm systems, known as the most skilled “bypass man” in the whole Outfit, Mendell was the first to go, disappearing on January 15. He was found, weeks later, in the trunk of his car, stabbed and strangled to death.
Five days after Mendell went missing, his second-in-charge, Bernard “Buddy” Ryan, was discovered dead behind the wheel of his car with four bullet holes in the back of his head. Ryan’s right-hand man, Stevie Garcia, made it until February 2 when he popped up as “trunk music” at the Sheraton Hotel next to O’Hare International Airport.
The hit parade continued and got more brutal.
On February 4, Vince Moretti, the marked burglary crew’s fence for all of its stolen property, along with a small-time crook friend of his named Don Renno, were lured to a Cicero, Illinois, bar and beaten and stomped to death. Renno had nothing to do with the Accardo robbery; he simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The double homicide came to be referred to as the “Strangers in the Night Murders” because of the Johnny Mathis song playing on the jukebox as Moretti and Renno were slaughtered by an Outfit hit team. Moretti, a former police officer, had been seen wearing Accardo’s gold cufflinks around town in the days before he was killed.
There was a two-month reprieve from the bloodshed before the final two members of Mendell’s crew, Bobby Hertogs and Johnny McDonald, met their own gruesome fate. Hertogs was found in the trunk of his car on April 6. He had been badly beaten and had his throat slit. McDonald was shot in the back of the head, his body dumped in an alley on April 14. ‘’ Source of the quoted paragraphs:
Boosting the Boss: Tony Accardo Robbed 40 Years Ago This Month
Feeling disrespected and unappreciated, a rogue Chicago Outfit burglary crew robbed the suburban mansion of longtime crime boss.
No matter is the robbed one is a Mafia boss or police chief , the robbers would return the stolen items 9 out of 10 times. It is even easier for cops to get them back. If we assume police chief’s house is robbed, they would just send a word and the items would be back in afternoon or next day at latest.
Better not to rob the wrong guy :)
You don't mess with somebody in the mob nicknamed "Big Tuna"
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