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Home Depot worker, 83, dies after being tossed aside by shoplifter
NY Post ^ | 12/05/2022 | Lee Brown

Posted on 12/05/2022 12:51:37 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

An 83-year-old North Carolina Home Depot worker has died — weeks after he was tossed to the ground trying to stop a “menace to society” shoplifter still on the loose.

Gary Rasor is seen on surveillance footage stepping up to confront a man wheeling three Ryobi pressure cookers out of the Hillsborough store Oct. 18 — only to be shoved to the ground by the crook who then casually strolls away.

Rasor was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he celebrated his 83rd birthday and made hopeful plans to see his new grandchild for the first time, his wife told WNCN.

He died Thursday “due to complications from the injuries received,” Hillsborough cops announced the next day.

The North Carolina medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide, police said, adding the hunt continues for a suspect they previously branded a “menace to society.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: caww

“Covid masks” have been a blessing to thieves and other criminals.


21 posted on 12/05/2022 1:37:49 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Symbolic of America. Old people with morality tossed aside as the new normal is to steal at every opportunity. You know: steal elections, shoplift, car jacking, looting, steal millions from the COVID relief fund, steal with Ponzi schemes like Bankman Fried, steal whatever is around you.

America is the land of opportunity to STEAL! Steal everything you can get your hands on. Why? Because nobody believes in God or in a power higher than themselves to be accountable to. There is only your EGO, WILL, and PASSIONS. So live a hedonistic life unimpeded by basic morality. Live for your own tawdry, little self... because tomorrow you die. That’s secular thought, the default position of people’s thinking. Everything is short term...


22 posted on 12/05/2022 1:40:27 PM PST by BEJ
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let me guess.


23 posted on 12/05/2022 1:46:17 PM PST by gibsonguy ( )
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To: BEJ
Because nobody believes in God or in a power higher than themselves to be accountable to.

2 Thessalonians 2.

24 posted on 12/05/2022 1:47:40 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
With how little woke retail companies care about theft, the best policy for the employees is to wave to the thief and wish them a nice day.
25 posted on 12/05/2022 1:55:49 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Aaah, thanks! I should have deduced that, being Home Depot.


26 posted on 12/05/2022 1:58:07 PM PST by catbertz
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To: GenX4Real

I’ve pondered corporal punishment for some crimes many times. Put the perp in the stock and throw rotten vegetables at them.


27 posted on 12/05/2022 2:02:32 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: PGR88

It’s demoralizing to people who obey the law and pay for their purchases, while bums simply steal stuff.


28 posted on 12/05/2022 2:03:44 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: PGR88

It’s demoralizing to people who obey the law and pay for their purchases, while bums simply steal stuff.


29 posted on 12/05/2022 2:04:12 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hope they catch the pos killer. Death penalty is in order.


30 posted on 12/05/2022 2:17:23 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

CLICK for video

31 posted on 12/05/2022 2:24:06 PM PST by deport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m sure the racist old Cracka deserved it. /sarc


32 posted on 12/05/2022 2:49:18 PM PST by Old Yeller (If loser libs think climate change is a problem now, wait until they experience the Tribulation.)
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To: popdonnelly

Do you think a white bum can get away with shoplifting? They’d slam him to the ground and cuff him if he were white. Only one species has privelege. And they know it.


33 posted on 12/05/2022 2:52:52 PM PST by Old Yeller (If loser libs think climate change is a problem now, wait until they experience the Tribulation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Definitely manslaughter at a minimum, and should be 2nd degree murder.


34 posted on 12/05/2022 2:54:10 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Fai Mao

You would shoot a guy for stealing a hammer?


35 posted on 12/05/2022 2:55:17 PM PST by thefactor
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To: PGR88

Disturbing story to good people like us.

Question: Does this mean there is widespread mob shoplifting now which is not being reported?
The handful of stories were oddity of the day types “such as watch this Rodeo Drive store get looted by organized group that got away in stolen SUVs waiting at the curb.”

I glance at iCrime once in a while and saw another one like that.

So are many stories about these being suppressed by the Leftist media?

We pay more due to their actions. We watch respect for the law going down.


36 posted on 12/05/2022 3:08:39 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thefactor

Why not?


37 posted on 12/05/2022 3:36:39 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: frank ballenger
Question: Does this mean there is widespread mob shoplifting now which is not being reported?

I don't know that. My friend's son at DICK'S said it was mostly groups of 2-4 yutes. Not enough to make it newsworthy, I suppose

If one person alone furtively slipped a pair of socks into their jacket, the staff likely wouldn't detect it, but when a few people arrive together, appear to be casing the store, quickly start grabbing stacks of items together and then run, it becomes obvious.

38 posted on 12/05/2022 3:41:56 PM PST by PGR88
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To: thefactor

“You would shoot a guy for stealing a hammer?”

If he came into my garage and stole it, I’d shoot him.

But then you didn’t ask what I’d LIKE to do........What I’d like to do is shoot him, tie him up, hang him from a telephone pole and put a sign under him that anyone that steals or breaks into a house has an example of their future.

Or if they dropped the hammer, I’d provide addresses to those establishments that wouldn’t shoot him. That way he knows where stealing isn’t considered a crime


39 posted on 12/05/2022 3:49:42 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
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To: thefactor

It’s looting, without the natural disaster.

These perps and mobs are looters.


40 posted on 12/05/2022 4:28:38 PM PST by ltc8k6 ( .)
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