The Touchy Thief

[pinky]

This happened about an hour ago, so I'm still shaking.

This SC came in tonight wearing a big coat while we were really busy, walked up to the beer cooler, and proceeded to stuff beer into his coat. Boss sees him and steps onto the counter, then off the counter, and walks up to him to tell him to leave the store.

He pushes him towards the front of the store, after getting the beer back, and tells him "he's not going to be stealing in our store."

The SC snaps at him "Get your hands off me. I was going to pay for them." (but they were in his pocket) Then he jumps at Boss with a fisting motion, like he's going to punch him in the face. Boss jumped back at him.

He tells him to leave again. The SC puts his hand on bosses forehead, and tries to push him backwards. Boss grabs the guys collar, jerking him backwards, and punches him in the face. The SC turned around to hit Boss back, but his girl grabs the SC and tells him to leave with her. The guy leaves.

One of our regulars, after seeing this, starts laughing and says "get me the h*ll out of this store, before something else happens."


On another note: One of our regulars told me that on Christmas Day, Boss was bitten five times by another thief before the police got there to arrest her. Poor Boss. He always gets the crazy ones.

[MoonCat]

BITTEN? Good lord I hope he had a tetanus shot.

[Eevie]

Holy damn! Yeah, I hope he got those bites tested... Some people...

[South Texan]

In my state, a thief cannot be convicted until he passes all possible places to pay for the merchandise. We had a guy who was stopped with a bunch of steaks stuffed down his sweat pants found not guilty as a matter of law because he was caught while walking from the meat section but before he had reached the registers. [/trivia]

Doesn't meant the store cannot bar the thief or throw him out.

And yeah, the manager needs to get a tetanus shot and to file assault charges.

[manybellsdown]

We had a guy who was stopped with a bunch of steaks stuffed down his sweat pants found not guilty as a matter of law because he was caught while walking from the meat section but before he had reached the registers.

Oh blorf. What a horrible fate for perfectly good steaks.

[Syriilord]

On another note: One of our regulars told me that on Christmas Day, Boss was bitten five times by another thief before the police got there to arrest her. Poor Boss. He always gets the crazy ones.

Does that mean that on the night of a full moon he finds himself uncontrollably turning into a sucky customer with a penchant for kleptomania?

[Monterey Jack]

Oh blorf. What a horrible fate for perfectly good steaks.

I will NEVER understand people who try to swipe perishable food items by stuffing them into their pants. Who would want to EAT that potentially yummy steak after it's been nestled against someone's sweaty ballsack for a while? At least if they stuffed it into their coat, there's a chance it'd still be edible. The all-time stupidest example of this is a story I read on here, about some idiot who stuffed hot rotisserie chickens into his pants, and who ended up collapsing in agony just past the registers and who ended with third-degree burns on his crotch and legs in addition to being charged for shoplifting.

[bbbr]

How about a "family size" package of chicken breast one shoplifters attempted to hide under his time-shirt inp the summer? I get that people workout and are really proud of their "six pack abs" but no one is that ripped and buff. One slimy thief got arrested and the chicken tossed into the inedible bucket.

[Lace Neil Singer]

One shoplifter who's still remembered in the supermarket is "Meat Lady" who shoved a load of fillet steak into her buggy (Americans call them strollers) which was one of those giant ones the size of a Volkswagon Beetle. She ran out the door and was immediately nabbed by one of the plain clothes store detectives who'd been discretely following her. We also have a rule that it doesn't count as stealing til they're out the door, however we have plain clothes security who will follow them til they leave and then nab them. XD This shoplifter was instantly suspicious as she walked into the supermarket pushing a buggy sans child.

Meat Lady spun a sob story about her kids being starving when she was nabbed; this story was unbelieved as not only had she stolen a ton of fillet steak which was hardly what you'd take to feed starving kids, but she was wearing designer clothes and the buggy had cost a lot of money. XD