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Shopper with gun kills suspected diaper thief at Florida Walmart
foxnews.com ^ | 02/05/2017

Posted on 02/05/2017 8:30:07 PM PST by BenLurkin

Deputies told the station the person killed was 19 and was shoplifting diapers with three accomplices.

They were loading the diapers in a car when a Walmart employee tried to stop them, the station reported.

The shopper told deputies that he showed up at that point to assist the store employee.

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Deputies said after the gunfire the four suspects drove off and smashed into two cars.

Three got away on foot. The one who was shot made it as far as a gas station across the street.

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The suspect was later pronounced dead.

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TOPICS: US: Florida
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; carjacker; iamwearingadiaper; localnews; oopsicrappedmypants; spandexpantload
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To: Nothingburger

It’s a ‘shop. Fake but accurate, as they say.


61 posted on 02/05/2017 11:25:35 PM PST by Company Man (Best President evah!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In a sane world any mother would fear for her son’s life if he robbed a store because it’s a stupid thing to do that leads to violence.


62 posted on 02/05/2017 11:57:26 PM PST by Crucial
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To: BenLurkin

Think what could have happened if they were stealing tampons!


63 posted on 02/06/2017 12:08:39 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ConservativeMind

That’s sad........did he even think to see if the manager could have helped out by giving him the diapers? I guess not.......sigh


64 posted on 02/06/2017 12:17:59 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Car used was stolen in a carjacking. How about that?


65 posted on 02/06/2017 12:19:30 AM PST by steve8714 (My wife calls me Dr. Smartacus. This makes me happy.)
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To: Dawgreg

I don’t understand all the sympathy for what is obviously a gang or a member of a gang of thieves getting offed while stealing diapers to sell on the black market. Theft often leads to violence. Stupid decisions lead to stupid results and another Darwin Award winner has met his final curtain.


66 posted on 02/06/2017 1:59:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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Drugs are often traded for household items. Items (not in this case) are purchased with EBT cards & then traded for dope. No money changes hands but items of value do. The household products are then sold on the black market thus meeting customer demands. This has been going on for at least a decade, probably longer.


67 posted on 02/06/2017 2:18:42 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Clutch Martin
Drugs are often traded for household items. Items (not in this case) are purchased with EBT cards & then traded for dope. No money changes hands but items of value do. The household products are then sold on the black market thus meeting customer demands. This has been going on for at least a decade, probably longer.

....since the late 1960's!

68 posted on 02/06/2017 2:31:06 AM PST by Lazamataz (I hereby coin a new Internet acronym: NTOWY -- Not Tired Of Winning Yet.)
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To: Vendome

Moron labe


69 posted on 02/06/2017 3:41:53 AM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: TexasGator
Sounds like Georgia

The perps getting shot are like Georgia, but the diaper angle strikes me as Florida. If it happened at a Waffle House it could be either.
70 posted on 02/06/2017 3:50:19 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: faithhopecharity

They don’t want jobs. One welfare chick said to me... I will let the slaves work. They will pay me every month. If you think these people want to work forty hours a week, you have bought the lib lie. They get paid much more in ssdi and benefits than they could ever make. I don’t know how many times I have heard... cut my hours so I can keep my medicaid.


71 posted on 02/06/2017 3:57:21 AM PST by momincombatboots (Pray for Sky, 20, two gunshots to abdomen, college student, hostess, easy prey n transformed US)
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To: momincombatboots

The horrible conditions in the slums need to remain as incentive for people like that; she may have “slaves” do the work, but she’ll end up burying her bastards (and risks murder herself) for that life of leisure.

The life of this POS was worth less than the diapers.


72 posted on 02/06/2017 4:07:18 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Terry Mross
Walmart will fire the employee for trying to stop the thieves and Sue the shooter.

In which case, the shooter should sue Walmart, it being the deep pocket.

Although, based on my last visit, shallower. But still deep enough!

73 posted on 02/06/2017 4:17:18 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: ConservativeMind
It doesn’t sound like anyone’s life was at risk to justify the shots. Still, it should send a signal to criminals.

you are looking at this wrong. Were the diapers with his life? That should be the question. If you want to Commit theft, is the value of those items worth your life?
74 posted on 02/06/2017 4:17:38 AM PST by TxAg1981
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To: BenLurkin
Pretty stupid to steal diapers for sure.But I wonder if that shopper did,in fact,have reason to fear for his life.
75 posted on 02/06/2017 4:21:32 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Paladin2

Rash of crime lately?


76 posted on 02/06/2017 4:24:36 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Cobra64
what could have happened if they were stealing tampons! Would have really gotten plugged.
77 posted on 02/06/2017 4:27:25 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: BenLurkin
Here is the sequence as far as I can determine:

1. Car gets stolen/carjacked in mid January.

2. That same car is used to go to a Walmart on a shoplifting spree. So, the carhijackers are either going shoplifting or the people going shoplifting obtained the car from the carjackers.

3. On being confronted by an employee and an armed citizen an argument ensues.

4. Two are shot by the citizen and one dies.

There are some lessons here that will be lost on the perps and future perps.

1. Don't hijack cars, don't use cars that have been hijacked. It is wrong and you could end up dead.

2. Don't shoplift, it is wrong and you could end up dead.

3. When caught shoplifting, don't argue, get in your vehicle and flee. If you don't you could end up dead.

78 posted on 02/06/2017 4:40:11 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (We live in interesting times)
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To: BenLurkin

Guaranteed this is not the whole story. Walmart confronts FOUR thieves, armed onlooker goes to assist Walmart employee, one can only imagine the confrontation as the thieves resisted. No loss here.


79 posted on 02/06/2017 5:26:56 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a shame...those diapers were meant for the snowflakes at the local college.../s


80 posted on 02/06/2017 6:06:17 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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