Posted on 08/24/2007 10:17:50 PM PDT by RightFighter
I was walking through Wal-Mart this evening with my 9-year old son picking up some groceries. When we were all done, we went to the magazine section just prior to checking out. While I was standing there, I saw a young man of about 25-30 years old walking toward the register next to the magazines. Something struck me as odd, and I finally realized that it was his pants - they were down around his mid-thigh, so that his boxer shorts were fully exposed.
The next thing I noticed, and I will forever rue the day that I saw this, was that his boxer shorts were wide open in the front. I'll leave the rest up to your imaginations, since, sadly, it was a reality for me.
I am not normally the type to complain about things, but I felt this was necessary, so I went to the Customer Service counter and told the girl about what I saw. She looked at me with wide eyes, and promptly did NOTHING.
I then went out the door, and I stopped and told the greeter at the door that there was this situation and that I'd told the customer service girl and she had done nothing. The greeter told me that it was probably because Wal-Mart's policy doesn't allow employees to say anything to a customer that the customer might deem offensive. I said, "But this man is exposing himself in your store. That is against the law. It's not a matter of insulting him - you should be having him arrested."
I got the wide-eyed look again and more of the inaction the customer service girl gave me.
Then, in the parking lot, I saw a police officer. I tried to flag her down, but she drove right by me.
The question is, what more should I / could I have done?
Bonus Question: What fact is this narrative leaving out that you are just begging for?
While I did NOT get the exposure, this evening I did get to observe far more of a young man’s underwear than I wanted to observe. He got up out of a booth after having his gal rotate on his lap as though they were lap dancing and he proceeds to pull down his jeans and pull and tug out his drawers.
I asked my 19 year old daughter what was the deal with these males and their need to dress with their drawers on display and she says I don’t know my boyfriend wears a belt.
Looks that way! *slowly backing out of this thread!*
My brother, who was a police officer in Asheville, NC for 14 years, said that in NC, they won’t even treat it as a crime unless a female files a formal complaint about it and that even then, it would be treated as a misdemeanor.
Well if your not too shy you might have helped him “grasp” the seriousness of the event and lead him out of the store by his pride and joy like the dog he portrayed.
I’m not going to get into a physical confrontation with someone. I did that already in college once, and the consequences of it were not fun to deal with.
They are indeed supposed to, but sometimes they can take a bit to get down there from their location in the store. Otherwise if they even failed to do that they are in dereliction of their duties, apathetic imo.
Noted....... just that one can’t get an injured weenie unless said weenie was waggin in the wind per se......
Nite !
If ever need another pervert stopped in Walmart point at him and yell “Shop Lifter!” at the top of your lungs. You’ll be amazed how much security they have available near the front door.
"He stuffed a sausage down his shorts!"
Wow. If the guy is doing this now, what’s he going to be doing for kicks in ten to fifteen? That’s a pi— poor policy IMO.
Thanks.
Remember how New York cut crime. They treated all small crimes as important. Sure enough, the big crime rate fell because of it. It would sure be a shame if this kid had to do something purely evil to some small kid or a woman to bring the hammer down.
Thanks Dave. You may be right. We sure live in an intersting age. People can do anything today because so many people have been brainwashed into thinking that whatever others do, it’s normal, even if they don’t do it themselves.
Nah, some things are just evil.
These Wal-Mart employees sure took a willy-nilly attitude towards it.
And isn’t that the worst of it? Besides the kid being involved it’s just plain demoralizing to know that a place like that couldn’t care less.
You should call the management and ask them what the hell, tomorrow. Better yet, cut the middle man and call corporate. Course you’re only going to get demoralized to the max with their response, no doubt.
You take care.
BTW, I wonder if they import the sausage from China. Every thing else seems to be... including the attitude.
That was pretty good.
Seriously though, I think the store manager information is on the receipt, if no one has suggested that yet.
She said, “looks like a penis, only smaller”
LOL
His buddy came up and claimed to be a Viet Nam era veteran Marine. He said he had gone to war so this guy could have the freedom to wear that shirt. I told him my dad was a Marine drill instructor who did two full tours in Viet Nam and he would have kicked both of their hind quarters if was alive to see this kind of filthy disrespect.
Then I walked over to customer service to find a manager (who was unavailable). I told the people at the desk what I had seen and asked how they could let something like that into their store. I basically got the same answer you got -- a shrug. Although they could not believe someone was actually wearing that t-shirt -- until they saw him leave a few minutes later.
I really don't know what people are thinking today. It's as though they all have some mental condition that causes them to lose all restraint. Then they fully believe they have the "right" to do anything they can think of doing and no one, not even those in authority seems to have the good sense to stop them.
As pathetic as this guy was I had to deal with, I think I would have had to call the police if I had seen the guy you saw. (They would have had to take one of us away.)
Wal Mart is under a NEW regime.........all CHINA all the time.
Remember under the old man?
Made in America!!!!
...and squeal "It's so cute!! Like a little, baby turtle!"
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