I watched a robbery and did nothing

[Desoto]

The only times I go to Target in Bonney Lake are for when I need to pick up medication or to look at their cookware.

Thus I'm standing in the check out line with my bags of pills and a new non stick frying pan, idly trying to determine the gender and potential species of the blue haired whale like cashier. I've determined it is most likely a female, perhaps a species of white orca that had been conscripted to this life of cashiering.

To our left a lot of yelling is going on, an anorexic appearing teenager starts jumping around a second large creature (this one resembles a black walrus with low quality weave work.) The poor clerks arms are flailing about like Kermit the frog, saying she cant leave yet and has to pay. She pushes her cart past him and out the door. I instinctively grip my Luger and get ready to confront her when I had a vision of the future. I saw myself being handcuffed and sitting in the back of a squad car.

The poster child for anorexia didn't follow her outside, why should I risk my safety and freedom?

This wasn't my battle, not worth the risks involved to "do the right thing". I'd have liked to have done something but I believe I made the right choice to not go after the walrus, it's not as if I packed my harpoon gun for such an occasion anyhow.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Doing the right thing....
Can have many different meanings .

In the above case....being a good witness if needed may have been the best thing.
No need to try and stop the thief...and there was no threat of bodily harm.

Not saying that I am support of theft or the like...
Just saying that when I am carrying...I will only pull or intervene when I am out of any other options.
Andy

 

[TTSX]

You'll never catch me putting my life or liberty at risk to protect the bottom line of a store. No people, especially myself, were at risk of harm, I'm not getting involved. Not in this litigious society.

 

[msgriff]

Target supports, promotes and encourages that sort of behavior. Let it burn.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

Target supports, promotes and encourages that sort of behavior. Let it burn.

Target reportedly has this cool trick they do with their cameras and facial recognition were they "let" folks walk out the door without paying and they keep track of what that person took, and as soon as it hits the magic number they arrest them for grand larceny. I think I did see that they changed policy to allow employees to stop people for trying to walk with items valued at $50.00, the old limit was $100.00.

'Target literally runs one of the top-rated forensic labs': Former Target worker reveals how store 'lets' you steal until they can charge you with grand larceny

A former Target employee is revealing that the company lets people steal enough merchandise to be charged with grand larceny.

www.dailydot.com

 

[CountryGent]

I instinctively grip my Luger and get ready to confront her when I had a vision of the future.

What kind of Luger do you carry? (I had a brief fascination with post-war Lugers during a somewhat strange period in my life, so am curious.)

You'll never catch me putting my life or liberty at risk to protect the bottom line of a store. No people, especially myself, were at risk of harm, I'm not getting involved. Not in this litigious society.

^ Exactly.

 

[Howard1955]

You made the right call.

 

[bradsteen]

If someone isn't in danger I'm not intervening. I'm not a cop, and I'm not putting my life and liberty on the line to protect product that I don't own or have any claim to. It's Target's product, and their decision to protect that product as they see fit within the bounds of the law.

 

[Alexx1401]

I have had this conversation many times with others who carry. When asked what would I do if say standing in bank and see someone rob the place. I have always said I would do NOTHING, assuming the scum is taking the money and leaving. Just a bit ago had co worker get VERY upset about this. I just shrugged. A LOT of people who carry seem to have a fantasy that one day they will whip out that gun and save the day. In the real world if they do very good chance they will ruin their life over that choice. I tell people who wish to carry to remember one important thing. You are going to be held to account for every round that leaves your gun. If you accidentally send a round into the wrong person no one will care what you intended. If my life is not threatened or some loved one is not? I am not going to pull a gun. To each his own.

 

[Tlock]

Couldn't of happened to a better store!

 

[Alexx1401]

Couldn't of happened to a better store!

It is very sad we are all paying for this but, the risk of trying to play Cop is not even close to being worth the risk

 

[Tlock]

It is very sad we are all paying for this but, the risk of trying to play Cop is not even close to being worth the risk

Vote different!

 

[Nosferatu]

You're supposed to flash your 'concealed carry' badge, which freezes them immediately as they give up and allow you to make a citizens arrest.

You celebrate after the cops take them away by firing 3 shots in the air and high-five the store manager. A plaque will be placed at the exit door in your honor.

 

[Alexx1401]

Vote different!

I gets a few people all butthurt when I say that but you are 100% correct. This mess that all of us pay for is directly the fault of voting. All that stuff that walks out the door free has to be paid for by those who actually pay. I am sure Amazon has to love this. I am sure many do the same thing I do when I walk into a store, see something I want, find it locked up with no one around to get it out so I can pay for it. Several times I have gotten my phone out, see I can have it delivered to me the next day at close to the same price. I hit order and walk out while the store is still trying to find the employee who has the key to what I wanted. It is a shame this will cost jobs here but people did ask for this

 

[Tlock]

You're supposed to flash your 'concealed carry' badge, which freezes them immediately as they give up and allow you to make a citizens arrest.

You celebrate after the cops take them away by firing 3 shots in the air and high-five the store manager. A plaque will be placed at the exit door in your honor.

Desk pop? Haven't done one of those since 08!

 

[Alexx1401]

You're supposed to flash your 'concealed carry' badge, which freezes them immediately as they give up and allow you to make a citizens arrest.

You celebrate after the cops take them away by firing 3 shots in the air and high-five the store manager. A plaque will be placed at the exit door in your honor.

LOL, I had forgotten about those CC badges. LONG ago used to see them advertised for sale in ads in gun rags. Used to wonder who in the hell would buy the damn things until the net came along. It would get beat up pretty well every so often on gun groups. With a lot of people who did carry one trying to defend them.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

But the good news is that the theft isn't really as bad as the corporations would have had you believe

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-key-claim-organized-retail-crime-2023-12-06/

 

[gmerkt]

Never mind weapons for the moment. It was said that the thief had their stolen goods in a cart. What if you just accidentally dump their cart over?

 

[gmerkt]

But the good news is that the theft isn't really as bad as the corporations would have had you believe

https://www.reuters.com/business/re...-key-claim-organized-retail-crime-2023-12-06/

That's about organized crime. How about disorganized crime?

 

[Alexx1401]

That's about organized crime. How about disorganized crime?

The media is going to ramp up the lying about anything that makes the blue look bad since its time to vote again. Look how they handle the stories of all the stores in places like SanFran that just closed up due to rampant theft. Media blames everything except the laws they supported allowing the scum to steal.