A big pump shotgun behind the counter in full display would go a long way towards stopping this crap. When the crowd enters the store, rack a shell. At that point they stop thinking like a group and start thinking about their own individual safety. I guarantee when they hear the sound of a shotgun being cycled they’d flee like rats off a sinking ship.
are you kidding? A lor of these stores are staffed by immigrants or students or 2d jobbers lookingot make $8 an hour .... that’s not combat pay!
Who is willing to die to protect shelves of candy, twinkies, white bread, and slurpy machines?
Ken & Evelyn bought a 7-11 franchise in our neighborhood when I was still in jr high school. The fact that I still recall their names all these years later is a testament to the impression that they made on me.
I remember going over to the store after school one day to find them closed. It turned out that several of the neighborhood kids (all of which I knew and a couple of which I ran with) had concocted a plan to rob his store in a method eerily similar to these flash mobs.
They chose a time when Evelyn would be alone in the store and then descended in mass, stealing beer and cigarettes. I don’t know what the haul was, but when the store opened there were a couple of changes. Ken now had a Remington Express shotgun and we kids were no longer welcome.
A classic case of a few rotten apples spoiling it for all of us. Although Ken eventually allowed some of us back into his store I don’t think that he ever regained his faith in any of us.
The more things change...