"Fill 'er up!"
Posted on 06/20/2011 4:01:22 AM PDT by chemicalman
RETAILERS have demanded Gold Coast staff enforce bans on hoodies and helmets in response to the city's armed robbery epidemic.
Chains such as BP and Shell are urging their Gold Coast store managers to follow the policy to help avoid robberies and easily identify thieves, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports.
BP senior customer response representative Ryan Holmes said company-owned sites on the Gold Coast had been ordered to take initiatives to protect their staff.
About 20 Gold Coast BP service stations now close at 8.30pm instead of 10pm and staff are asking customers to remove clothing that hides their face.
Several Shell service stations on the Gold Coast including Miami and Burleigh Waters have also adopted the no hoodies and helmets policy.
Although Woolworths Petrol has not made the move company policy, employees of its Southport station have insisted their customers remove their hoods.
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Helmets?
What are they going to do about Muslims?
Uh, oh. I smell a lawsuit coming.
Australia - different laws, but no more sense. After all they banned guns, so as to make it easier for the government and other criminals to rob the public. Maybe they think banning sweatshirts will somehow reverse this trend. I can see it now. Some thug (carrying an already banned firearm) looking at the sign in the store window and saying “darn they’re banning my sweatshirt, I guess I won’t be able to rob this place.”
Just hose down a would be robber with gasoline and pull out the Zippo. What happens next will be up to them.
In Missouri you can’t wear sunglasses or a hat into a bank - ar least this was the case with the banks at the Lake of Ozarks
I think the idea is to prevent them from hiding their faces.
Obama can fix this problem, just like he fixes the Gaza terrorism. Just import them to the US.
Simple. Ban Muslims.
Motorcycle helmets.
Yes, I kind of gathered that, but my point was that if they were going to rob the place asking them not to cover their faces was not likely to be a deterrent or be obeyed.
This is as dumb as bars requiring shirts to be tucked in because “HUR HUR HUR SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE A GUN ON THEM HUR HUR HUR”.
If only; treat them as members of a terroristic blood cult and not a religion.
Some banks here in MA prohibit sunglasses, hats and hoodies - funny thing is banks still get robbed, and what’s even funnier is that one of my town banks got robbed so for the whole month or so after the robbery they had a cop stationed in the bank, a day late and dollar short, putting a cop in the bank after it was robbed just doesn’t make sense because I highly doubt the robber would come back - he got what he wanted - he pulled off a clever escape and still has not been caught.
"Fill 'er up!"
You cannot fix moral decreptitude in a society by outlawing headgear, or anything else. A morally upright society is bred from within and will not steal becasue it is wrong to steal, not because they are easier to id.
We live in a world that values security over safety.
Security: identifying the perp after the attack/crime.
Safety: preventing the attack/crime with appropriate personel and weapons.
I don't think that the idea is to "fix moral decrepitude," but rather, to deter a certain subset of would-be robbers, and, by so doing, reduce the incidence of robbery to the point where it becomes more manageable.
It's kind of like the old days where teenage pregnancy was socially stigmatized. It didn't "stop teenage sex," but it reduced the numbers of teens willing to casually experiment with sex, and for the remainder who wouldn't be deterred it made them much more circumspect about where, when and with what contraceptive methods.
I would say we live in a world that values the illusion of security over safety. "The police will protect you" is an oft repeated government lie, but comforting to those who don't want to take responsibility for their own lives.
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