Posted on 12/29/2023 4:10:41 PM PST by CFW
Three employees at a sporting goods store in Louisiana were terminated from their jobs after attempting to stop a shoplifter who allegedly stole a pistol.
Michelle Sutton, along with two other unidentified workers at the Academy Sports + Outdoors in Metairie, Louisiana, said that the shoplifting incident happened Dec. 16.
The sales associates said that they thought they were about to make a sale and were showing a customer a pistol, when he took off with the firearm.
Sutton, who was working as a team lead at the store, said once she received word on her radio, she immediately dropped what she was doing and jumped into action.
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How does that make sense?
They could be sued. Better to fire the good guys.
anarcho-tyranny
Aka “how to lose all your real customers in on fell swoop.”
This is common practice with all retailers. The employee getting hurt has a much more costly consequence than letting a guy swipe a firearm.
TribalPrincess2U has got it right. It’s all about the lawsuits. The store owner has evidently decided it’s better to lose a $500 pistol instead of being sued by an injured thief for $5,000,000.
Of course such thinking only encourages future thefts.
You have to factor in how many guns were not stolen before you make the calculation.
Then factor in the value of deterrence.
Don’t know if all Academy’s are laid out the same, but at our local store, the firearms are toward the back of the store and the thief would have to navigate a virtual maze before getting to the front door.
I can see employees getting disciplined for trying to apprehend a thief over a stolen jacket, but a firearm? They were protecting the community as well as their store. Ammo is on shelves next to the firearms counter, so he could have been leaving the store with a gun and ammo. I’m sure any victims would sue Academy for lax firearms security.
Firing them is nuts.
GROAN OK do-gooder.
But, it’s a sporting goods store! Isn’t it firearm thief season right now?
There a plenty of lawyers out there just waiting to sue the store for putting their employees at risk.....and the employee and the lawyer will get big bucks..
And when that $500 pistol is used in a homicide, what will that lawsuit be? They just armed a criminal with no NICS check.
The left only hates guns when the color of the thief is not appropriate.
There’s a gun shop that needs an “Out. of Business” sign in its window.
I believe I read someplace that it’s a liability insurance issue when employees take action against thieves. And if a store becomes uninsurable because they lose their liability insurance then it’s suicide and as good as going bankrupt.
Uncle Leo?
Swarm! Swarm!
Back in the late 70’s, I slid and fell on my right hip in Skaggs Albertson’s grocery store while 2 employees were working on something leafy in the produce department. Someone yelled, she fell. I saw it was dark green when one employee quickly grabbed it up. My hip broke on that side in 2022 years ago. Always wondered if it had anything to do with that fall.
I could have sued and would have gotten at least 3,000.00.
Never even thought about suing. Darn it!
Yes but not just the employee.
In the deadly and dangerous world of university libraries where I used to work (kidding) a student assistant’s boyfriend saw a thief with a load of expensive high value books rushing out of the front doors, the tattletape alarms going full blast. He took off running after him and the two ran for a long way.
Ending: The thief fell on a sidewalk crack and broke a couple of bones. He sued the university and won a lot of money. The ruling was he wouldn’t have been injured if the guy had not been chasing him.
That’s why any business forbids their employees for pursuing a thief no matter how much the employees would like to...
I spent thousands of dollars at Academy on guns and ammo. Signed up on their website and almost immediately got a “Happy Pride Month” email. Never went back and never will. I hope the homosexuals make up for the money they lost with that stupid pandering.
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