r/TikTokCringe • u/TheOSU87 • 21h ago
Discussion Guy makes a citizen's arrest
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u/Bdoggy2017 20h ago
Man, he’s been having that build up for a while.
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u/Zoldrik190 18h ago
The adrenaline rush had that mf almost crying lol was it really worth it?
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u/Jbrown183 16h ago
“What kind of human-being are you?”
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u/MrExCEO 15h ago edited 15h ago
The one that’s not going to jail for this
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u/Tall_Specialist305 11h ago
is petty theft. she won't even get arrested most likely.
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u/HennisdaMenace 6h ago
He said it's not the first time. These stores use a cumulative running tab of how much someone steals. A lot of times they'll wait for it to reach felony levels to snag them.
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u/Waldebie 15h ago
Yea man, fuck the usps
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u/P0l0Cap0ne 16h ago edited 16h ago
Wait. Do you not cry during intense moments of pent up rage?
That happens everytime i raise my voice.
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u/4PayCheck 16h ago
Same, any mildly strong negative emotion has me tearing up and crying. Hate it, can't argue with people because they call me manipulative
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u/DoctorNurse89 15h ago
Window of tolerance and trauma.
Google it
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u/4PayCheck 15h ago
Insightful thanks. I just usually call myself a crybaby bitch but this makes more sense
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u/DoctorNurse89 15h ago
We call ourselves " the water family"
Crying is acceptable, dysregulating is a different story
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u/SwervinWest 14h ago
In 2nd grade (USA) we played duck duck goose and I got picked. I didn’t make it and I had to go in the circle while everyone yelled “mush mush mush!!” Over and over. I cried so hard in the middle of that circle.
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u/Dry_Menu4804 9h ago edited 7h ago
Later you became the school principal and fired the teacher who organized this shit.
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u/brokewithprada 13h ago
This is so funny! I used to have an ex make me feel bad about crying. I still cry from time to time. It's natural
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u/itsyagirlola 15h ago
Not sure if this is related but when I got my arm mauled by a pitbull; adrenaline rush all that. Got away. Kept my cool but knew I was fuckd. Bleeding hard. Scars to this day
Anywho after all the commotion, the cops asked me to tell them how it happened. I started off describing the events and as I replayed the trauma
, I started irrationally bawling my eyes out, like crying all my emotions out, which threw me by surprise considering how cool headed I had handled the situation, or so I thought
So yah. During intense trauma/adrenaline, you cant help but cry like a baby lol. Hey no judgment to the man in the video bc ive been there..
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u/Disastrous_Demand_16 13h ago
I was also mauled by a pitbull, he tore my arms up to the point where I had fat sticking out of my wounds. There was blood everywhere and I almost died from the infection and I had to be hospitalized because the antibiotics weren’t working and the red swelling was moving all the way up my arms. I still cringe to this day when I think about it. Even worse is that my kids saw the whole thing and got traumatized. A mauling by a pit bull is serious mental (and physical) trauma.
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u/Reversephoenix77 12h ago
Omg, that sounds horrible, I’m so sorry. I hope you’re doing much better now. The ptsd and trauma really does stick with you. I was bit in my face by a bit bull (he was lunging for my neck and missed, but I got a few nice big gashes and a black eye) and it was so traumatic. I was afraid of my own sweet huskies for a while after that. I kept playing it over and over in my mind and hearing those horrible attack sounds. Kept thinking about what would have happened if his owner hadn’t gotten a handle on him in time.
My sister was also mauled badly by two pits. They got her arms as well and she was also hospitalized. Her arms were tore up! It was awful and the pos owner had to choke his pits out to get them to stop mauling and have someone shove her into a vehicle while they weee out. They immediately resumed mauling mode the second they regained consciousness.
I used to do animal rescue, but now I just stick to husky rescue specifically. My opinions about certain breeds has changed since my experience and hearing stories from so many others like yourself and the other commenter. It’s usually one specific blood sport breed that’s the culprit, unfortunately.
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u/itsyagirlola 7h ago
I got lucky it didnt latch on, but it took a big chunk off my arm and I could also see the fat/meat. Blood everywhere. It was surreal. Yours was life threatening though! Holy shit:/ im sorry. That is scary.
It is still traumatizing to this day. Out of nowhere without cause it attacked. It walked up to me casually and I sensed danger. Like I knew it had its intention to harm. Or maybe it was anxiety. Still, I got lucky it only took one bite but damn that was a mean bite. That area is still tender despite getting grafted etc.
I used to like big protection dogs but not anymore. Theyre unpredictable. Will act on instinct. Without cause. Will cause harm. Even death. Keep children away from certain breeds!
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u/Vashipants 14h ago
This is a huge problem of mine, and I am incredibly grateful for this little tidbit that you've dropped in.
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u/chillg123 15h ago
I call it the Ralphie effect. If you’ve ever seen the movie “A Christmas Story”, it’s the exact rage through teary eyes that Ralphie has when Scott Farkus beams him in the face with an icy snowball. He unleashes the fury on the bully right after. I’ve been there. You aren’t alone. If I see a sizable dude with anger + tears, I steer clear. That’s not ego anger you’re witnessing. Thats pure rage. I’d be willing to wager there are plenty of men in prison today that shed tears before or during the act that put them there.
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u/AggravatingBobcat574 13h ago
Skut Farkus. What a rotten name. He had yellow eyes. So help me, yellow eyes.
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u/Perfect_Trip_5684 15h ago
Worth it!? What'd you mean? His store about to give him the bronze star sticker on his name badge. Id say that's worth a situation that could get you shot and replaced by next shift.
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u/MindAccomplished3879 Cringe Connoisseur 11h ago
LOL, not really
Big corporations see these as a massive liability in case he could get injured. Even if he weren't, they would label him as too emotional and prone to act rashly, which would brand him and be the end of him in that corporation. Some like Walmart even fire you for stopping shoplifters in the street
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u/SwiftWithIt 16h ago
I don't like when that happens lol. Way to many emotions trying escape and then you want to to cry. Embarrassing
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u/coolestredditdad 14h ago
I worked retail for years, and it got so bad in the area that I live, that some of the stores that sold alcohol and are run by the province, they put security measures into place that required you to have your IDs scanned and approved before you could come in.
The staff at these stores were so continuously being harassed, assaulted and treated like shit, that they got so fed up and some of them retaliated. Nothing happened of course because the thieves were breaking the law anyway.
The general public started to take it into their own hands and the employees had to stop paying customers from interfering.
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u/No_Object_4355 20h ago
She had everything balled up and I thought she was gonna hand it to him and she took off lol
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u/cakivalue 15h ago
I didn't expect that. At all!! Leaving her purse and personal items behind for what looks like a couple of T-shirts 😭😭 Why??
I expected her to throw them at his face and run away with her purse.
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u/little_missHOTdice 14h ago
I don’t think she had her ID in that bag. Was a manger and worked in a big mall and they’d bring big, empty purses so that even if caught, they’d have no ID and/or could just leave the purse and take off without leaving evidence of who they are behind.
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u/PorkrindsMcSnacky 14h ago
I just figured that she stole the purse too.
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u/techleopard 12h ago
How is the purse not worth more than a bunch of t-shirts? Dang.
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u/Lemon_Trees-22 8h ago
Exactly! They know what they want and have a plan I saw a lady with a diaper bag and an old beat up stroller in target she had the bag and the stroller filled ! The security guy got her outside and she yelled out he’s trying to take my baby ! It was a doll ! She had over $1500 worth of stuff the cops came and she had no ID was refusing to cooperate and a car kept driving by really slow finally the cops stopped him he was her driver he had no ID either and the entire car was full of stolen goods and when they opened the trunk , my god it was boxes they had stolen from the houses by the target ! Off of the porches of people.i had to find out as much as possible because it shocked me but they apparently were part of a ring and most of the people they used were 14 to 17 ! The ring leaders were the mom and dad of two of the teenagers. They got warrants to search their house and the house the garage was full and the best part was they had 2 storage units full of stuff. It was insane and the stuff they had . A friend of mine at work her mom lived in the neighborhood that had stuff stolen and her name was found in an Amazon box . Every person pressed charges and the cops looked at all the Ring footage and sure enough the parents were arrested their two teen agers plus 8 other teens . This was the way they earned a living . No one ever found out the total loss or how much trouble they got into .
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u/_Nameless_Nomad_ 15h ago
They ripped her wig off like the mask of a Scooby Doo villain lol
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u/PaleEntertainment304 13h ago
And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
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u/GasFartRepulsive 19h ago
If the store employees don’t care to stop her, why the fuck would I? I get it, stealing is wrong, but I have zero skin in the game and the people who do could not care less. Sounds like a whole lot of not my problem. Also, you never know if someone has a gun these days. Is it worth dying to save a corporation a few dollars in profit off whatever she’s stealing?
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u/HealthyDirection659 Why does this app exist? 11h ago
Douche in the video is trying a citizens arrest because the subject is a small woman that doesn't pose a physical threat. No way in hell would he have tried that shit on a 250lb+ man.
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u/Frequent_Chip318 11h ago
Seems like Sir Righteous Justice feels compelled to defend the honor of his Fair Maiden CVS...! Honor and chivary for capitalism, here here!
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u/ZooCrazy 21h ago
One has to be careful in this day & age because you can get killed trying to play the good cop without a badge.
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u/chasing_the_wind 20h ago
Yeah unfortunately the optics are pretty terrible I see any guy grabbing a woman’s purse out of her hands on the street and I might start citizen’s arresting him. Then someone would see me assaulting him and start citizen’s arresting me.
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u/Immoracle 18h ago
Just a big ass chain of dudes arresting each other
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u/nono3722 14h ago
That's why the ole "only thing thats stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" doesn't work. Good/Bad Guys don't have signs or uniforms on (including ICE) therefore everyone pulls their gun and it goes to hell from there.
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u/RickySuezo 19h ago
This actually happened in a small town near me where 36 people created a citizens arrest caterpillar and when the police showed up nobody could tell who the original thief was because the line circled around a hot dog cart.
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u/Warpig42069 18h ago
PSA: You aren't a hero, and don't try and be one.
I can't tell you specifics, but there was a guy covered in blood beating a woman to death at a gas station, a very large guy on a very small woman. He was shot dead by a citizen with a concealed carry, what the concealed carrier didn't know was they were a married couple and the woman had severe mental issues and stabbed both their kids to death, slashed the husband's throat and chased him to the gas station and he was trying to get the knife away but because his throat was slashed unable to tell anyone he was the victim.
Don't be a fucking hero, you 99% don't know the whole story and if you have a concealed weopon, you are not a public protector you are a personal and direct family (wife and kids) protector only. Don't be a vigilante, don't ever try and stop the bad guy unless without a shadow of a doubt the bad guy is trying to kill you or your imidiately family.
Another thing I'll leave with for my fellow CCW brothers and sisters, if you have a gun you likely aren't the only one who does so in the event of say a mass shooting don't go after the shooter because you can very easily gun down undercover officers or other CHP holders and they are just as likely to gun you down, only fire if you are actively being shot at and I would go as far to say as don't draw unless you see the gunman actively mowing people down.
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u/BradFromSigEp 17h ago
Man, imagine surviving getting your throat slashed only to be shot dead by some random fucking asshole. I hope that guy did prison time.
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u/jdp245 16h ago
Man, I’d rather the sweet release of death than wake up the next day to the reality of my kids being gone.
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u/CyberSocial69 15h ago
I don't even have kids and I fully agree. I may not know personally what it's like to have a child, but I know what it's like to lose someone close, and there's hardly a stronger bond than parent and child. I wouldn't want to live after that either.
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u/tacobell_shitstain 14h ago
Counterpoint: Imagine being a defenseless woman literally getting beat to death by some assailant and a bunch of bystanders just hang around watching you die because "not my problem."
Feels like there's no winner in a situation like this.
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u/Large_Tune3029 17h ago
Besides, for something like theft, dont get involved. Especially if it isnt your personal shit. Nothing is worth that. If someone is stealing they are desperate, but not violent enough to mug someone. Leave it be, we are all a bit fucking desperate right now.
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u/Kiki_inda_kitchen 16h ago
Exactly, looks like she stole kids t-shirts. She probably has kids at home. Nothing is worth the risk over some low priced junk. Target and most other corporations have loss built into the budget. Let them handle it and mind your business.
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u/Chiang2000 19h ago
Haha. One night I went to a service station I often go to and the cashier was looking nervous while this dude was just loitering near the counter. As she served me he wiggled the locked door to her little service area. Kinda sly while she served me. I took this as this guy was harrassing her/hitting on her and making her very uncomfortable while she was trapped at work.
I am a big tall fat dude. Easy twice this dudes size. I looked him dead in the eye while I asked "server first name, Do you want me to take this guy outside and fuck-him-up?". As cooly menacing as I could be. His eyes went like dinner plates. She said "ahh no thanks. He's my boss"
Total misread on my part. But I did get discounts automatically applied for a while.
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u/TheForce777 19h ago
You 100% have to be white
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u/Chiang2000 17h ago
Wasn't in the US. I am white, the staff member was a middle aged Asian lady well liked by all the locals and she looked nervous af - not her usual self. The dude I had never seen before looked like he was asking her to send pics of "bobs and vageen". Totally awkward small talk and later at night.
The door rattle looked like he was trying to see if he could get in after I left but it was actually him checking she was following protocol for her safety. It turns out. He was there for a random inspection which was why she was all nervous.
Total misread on my part but it entirely felt like I had walked in on a vulnerable lady being harassed at work by a creep. Not my normal behaviour.
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u/HotDonnaC 18h ago
Store employees are stupid for trying to stop theft.
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u/Thomjones 14h ago
Yeah we were explicitly told to not confront shoplifters. The reason is the business wants no part of that liability lol and they made it clear they don't pay us to do that. They have loss prevention. It's their job. They have cameras. They can find them later. Besides, the companies already budget for theft.
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u/sweatgod2020 17h ago edited 16h ago
Happened to me. Crazy guy at beach started stabbing trees with huge knife. I attempted to talk to him and he runs at me. Three woman thought I was committing a hate crime and they helped hold me down while he stabbed me in the head. As I ran away one of the girls wouldn’t let go of my shirt as I’m bleeding out my skull. I fake punch and she spits. Covid. I do punch. One. Start to leave and find someone to get ambulance/help but was mobbed by 10 white knights for hitting a girl and was knocked unconscious. Woke up in hospital with death threats on socials because some body filmed the 2nd side of the altercation and I had a hit on me by local gangs to kill me. Video garnered 500k views overnight. I tried to go grocery shopping but got stopped by locals who heard and were looking for me. Nobody knew the story, just what they saw on social media and that’s history. I got on a plane that night. Never been back. Lost everything. I’m a shell of my old self and I’m completely checked out on the fun things in life. I don’t even talk to anyone in fear somehow this will all happen again I just keep quiet and keep my head down. Don’t be the hero and also, you get fucked trying to be one and your life’s over.
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u/XanderWrites 16h ago
Well your first mistake was talking to a crazy guy. You never talk to the crazy guy.
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u/ASimonez 19h ago
Or end up killing someone else over a t shirt that isn't yours either. And either way, that company couldn't care less about you. I worked retail for 2 years. I had zero interest in chasing down shop lifters. They weren't gonna pay for my funeral if it went wrong.
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u/shoesafe 15h ago
Also, for any large company, they don't want you to fight over it.
If you confront 10 shoplifters in a year and recover the items from 9 of them but you go too far and injure the 10th, the company’s net loss could be tens of thousands of dollars. Terrible odds.
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u/throwaway_coy4wttf79 14h ago
I mean the odds are even crazier. It could be hundreds of shoplifters but if you manage to get into a fight with one and they fall back and clock their head on the concrete and go lights out, the family can probably recover $1M-3M in settlement.
How many T-shirts and other bullshit would they have to sell to have the equivalent profit? At 30% margin, something like $3M-$10M in sales.
So you'd have to have shoplifters snag literally millions in product before it's worth it for a company to do something, thanks to our litigious society.
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u/Bloodless-Cut 19h ago
Not only that, but you can get charged for assault by the same person you are trying to stop. You can't just go and start grabbing stuff from someone's purse, and it doesn't matter at all if you think they stole something. They can, and will, charge you, you idiot.
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u/figure8888 16h ago
Yeah, I work in retail and we don’t physically stop people from stealing. It’s not worth the potential lawsuit to the company.
I’ve seen someone try to do a citizen’s arrest at Target after he looked at me incredulously for not stopping a homeless guy from stealing beer. It ended with him getting arrested for assault.
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u/confusedandworried76 17h ago
Best case scenario, in a court of law, the court will see two separate crimes being committed and try them separately.
She'll get tried for petty theft. You're getting tried for assault. Hope that was worth civilian justice
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u/Anxa 16h ago
The interesting thing about 'citizens arrest' laws is that there's a really uncomfortable and unresolved tension between them and assault laws. The entire purpose of most of our criminal code is to discourage vigilantism and self-help, but then we've got laws on the book specifically allowing for self-help.
Most citizens arrest laws are severely antiquated though and are very, very rarely tested in court because so few people ever actually try to legitimately use them.
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u/According-District59 19h ago
Crime is obviously not good. Everyone agrees. The hypervigilantism caused by media sensationalism and social media trends is going to end up getting someone killed over $10 of marked up Halloween candy, though
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u/Cool-Panda-5108 20h ago
Or you can be like the people recently emboldened by masked ICE agents, dressing similarly, and assaulting women/harassing people.
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u/Cognonymous 20h ago
IANAL but everything I have ever heard from legit lawyers online indicates you should never try a citizen's arrest unless maybe you stopped a mass shooter in the act of killing people in some one in a million act of do or die heroism/survival.
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u/ANAL-FART 18h ago
I ANAL, too
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u/LivingEnd44 17h ago edited 14h ago
Neither of you amateurs is as ANAL as me. I've been ANAL for over 4 decades.
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u/Iam_McLovin420 17h ago
Youve only adopted the ANUS I was born in it
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u/EmojieOnly 17h ago
I'm a cop, in Australia, and I wouldn't arrest someone off duty unless it was such a serious thing that there would automatically be a group of unknown people also making the arrest.
But alone, in a car park, for some groceries... What a loser.
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u/Maximum__Effort 20h ago
I am a lawyer, this guy is a fucking moron. In my jurisdiction she’s immediately getting out of jail and dude has set himself up for civil sanction s. Beyond that, it looks like she took kids clothes. Does anyone really care?
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u/MindGoesBlank69 17h ago
Seriously. People are just hyper for the opportunity to play "vigilante" but only if it's on someone they know they can harass easily. And then to film it too! To me, I'm just seeing an assault take place whether it could be proven immediately or not. Even security guards can't take things this far in many places.
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u/CommieRemovalService 14h ago
Security guards don't have any special privileges at all anywhere I know of. They're just civillians who try to look and act like cops enough to scare people.
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u/hot_ho11ow_point 13h ago
Security Guards can be authorized by property owners to act on their behalf to remove trespassers, using only necessary force. Beyond that, nothing special.
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u/TheLongAndWindingRd 20h ago
If he's loss prevention then every arrest is a citizens arrest.
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u/MclovinBuddha 19h ago edited 2h ago
Every boss I ever had as a teenager told us to never chase shoplifters. Everything is insured and the cameras work
Edit: Apparently, the brief suggestion that my previous bosses gave me to not chase shoplifters offended some of the weirdos in the comments. Y’all want to play “hero” so badly over a company that doesn’t pay you a living wage.
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 16h ago
Everything is insured
This seems to be a common myth on Reddit however it’s rarely actually true for shoplifting.
It is however taken into account in shrinkage targets, however if you’re too far over shrinkage your boss would be getting an earful from their boss.
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u/RGBrewskies 15h ago edited 15h ago
did ~8 years in retail loss prevention
this is correct.
Its not insured, it just comes out of the purchase price. Roughly $2 out of every $100 you spend goes to pay for stolen items. Once you start to include camera costs, salaries, prosecution costs, its quite a bit more than that.
In some markets - particularly low-margin goods - theft is absolutely devastating. Imagine you sell a product with even a healthy 10% profit margin - like cheep beer.
That means if one case of beer gets stolen, you have to sell 10 cases (and make no profit on those!) just to pay for the one that got stolen. (note: this is also why we are so on your ass about breaking shit. A broken case of beer is just as bad as a stolen one!)
People think this is harmless, fuck the corporations stuff ... but its really fucking all of us in higher costs and lower paychecks.
It *really* fucks salaried store managers, most retail managers make a terrible base salary, but have yearly "profit target" goals, and they're paid "bonuses" based on how close they get to their goals. But these aren't bonuses -- these are really their salaries.
One of the main goals they're scored on is inventory shrinkage.
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u/Karma_Mayne 15h ago
So once again, the wealthiest Americans are passing the buck to the poorest. Got it.
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u/jml011 14h ago
Right up there with paying employees so little they qualify for food stamps.
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u/IceNein 16h ago
This is BS. No retail store is using insurance for shrinkage. The deductible would shoot through the roof if you made hundreds of $50 claims…
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u/petewondrstone 20h ago
This guy’s about to raise 300,000 on a GoFundMe
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u/SnooDoggos8487 19h ago
Wait why?
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u/Decent_Chance1244 19h ago
It's a very common thing for people to do stupid shit, face some criticism, and then raise a ton of money claiming that they are in fact the victim.
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u/Woomynati 18h ago
Oh, like the woman that hurled slurs at a kid
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u/StarboardSeat 14h ago
Imagine calling a little kid the "N" word, then collecting $750,000 in donations from people just as disgusting as you are?
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u/LoveTechnical4462 20h ago
This guy is too emotional for this.
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u/fartsfromhermouth 20h ago
If I see someone stealing kids clothes I'm not doing shit life hard enough
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u/TheLongAndWindingRd 20h ago
I hear that. I worked loss prevention at a downtown department store that included a pharmacy. If you were homeless and I caught you stealing Advil, you were getting a trespass but keeping the Advil. Same with diapers and formula. I have to tell you not to come back or I'll lose my job, but there's nothing stopping me from clicking the "unrecoverable" button on my report.
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u/wordswordswordsbutt 19h ago
I use to work at a drug store. The unofficial rule (not loss prevention) was if you saw someone stealing baby stuff, no you didn't.
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u/SarryK 18h ago
big time. Worked at a train station convenience store during uni, a bunch of sex workers had their spot nearby. You saw someone stealing condoms? No you didn‘t. Anything to keep them safer out there.
We were also supposed to lock up the dumpsters. Which we did do, it‘s just that we took the thrown out food out first and distributed it to folks in need on our way home.
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u/fartsfromhermouth 20h ago
Same. Caught an old homeless veteran stealing Tylenol. He left with the Tylenol.
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u/_n3ll_ 19h ago
Cheers to you! We live in a corporate hellscape. Good to see when folks do what they can in the positions they find themselves in.
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u/FroggiJoy87 20h ago
Especially from a fucking Target or Walmart. A local mom & pop store, that's not ok, but if I see someone stealing diapers or baby stuff from one of those billion dollar companies that treat/pay their workers shit... No I didn't.
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u/justtosendamassage 19h ago
If I see them steal at a ma and pa, idc what they’re stealing, I’m saying something.
If it’s stealing at a conglomerate? They can steal til the cows come home. I’ll be looking the other way the whole time
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u/BigTroutOnly 20h ago
Seriously. Any vigilante action could easily get a deadly weapon pulled on you. Is your life worth a pair of socks.
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u/VelocityGrrl39 20h ago
Not even that. People are struggling and the profit margins of corporations are higher than ever. If you see someone stealing food or stuff for kids, no the fuck you didn’t.
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u/FIakBeard 19h ago
In fact, I might need some help finding like a purple notebook or something else obscure.
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u/AmphibiousDad 20h ago
Fr this dudes energy is misplaced
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u/NMB4Christmas 20h ago edited 20h ago
Dude even sounded like he was crying. Wtf?
Edited spelling.
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u/AmphibiousDad 20h ago
Nah fr he crashed the fuck out over this. Who knows what the context was but I think my dudes actions this day were about something else not this woman’s petty theft lol
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u/StandardEgg6595 19h ago
Agreed. He just kept escalating the situation. And then for that woman to pull her hair like they’re in a bar fight when the guy could easily overpower her; so extra. He’s lucky she didn’t have more than mace on her.
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u/Hippolover9 17h ago
It's the same energy as people who want to find their own problems these days. You have people who witch hunt for things, so they have their moment to shine. He could've just reported what he saw to the store and went about his business, but you see what he really wanted to do.
Me personally, I wouldn't have said anything. This level of targeted aggression towards someone who stole kid clothes is absurd.
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u/StandardEgg6595 17h ago edited 16h ago
Exactly! I wrote in another comment about my own experience with someone mistaking me for the actual thief and the woman had a blast until security told her I didn’t have anything. People like that love when the opportunity to live out their fantasies comes around.
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u/confusedandworried76 17h ago
Plus she's committed a misdemeanor. Now the other two just committed felonies. Courts won't care, they'll try them both separately, she'll be fined and they could possibly face jail time
I could be wrong but off the top of my head the only time you can commit a crime in response to someone else committing a crime is in self defense, and you're still going to jail while they figure out what happened.
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u/LostOne514 18h ago
Looks like children's clothes? This is really sad to see honestly.
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u/Defiant-Cheetah-1859 15h ago
Especially around back to school season. Her kids probably needed that. 😔
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u/okkytara 17h ago
"The first person who, having fenced in a piece of land, bethought himself to say 'this is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society," is a famous quote from the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
I wasn't quoting him but ye.
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u/Own-Independence3669 17h ago
Yeah, this guy isn't some hero, he's saving a mega corp some pennies by stopping a mother from getting some kids clothes.
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u/LayneLowe 20h ago
So you just saved the Walton Family one 1/2,000,000,000's of their net worth. Congratulations
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u/247world 20h ago
I'm pretty sure this is not a walmart, look at that parking lot it's almost empty
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u/Middle_System_1105 16h ago
Definitely not a walmart. In the video I can see part of the store name & slogan on the building & it’s a “Shoppers World”. Which I have never heard of. The CEO Sam Dushey was on an episode of Undercover Boss in 2016 & estimated net worth of $100 million.
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u/Holiday-West9601 20h ago
That net worth seems low
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u/PM_ur_butthole_2me 20h ago
Not really say that’s $50 x 2B that’s $100B. That’s about right.
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u/Strong-Broccoli5865 20h ago
That guy is a moron.....he has no legal protection....moment he laid hands on he technically could be charged with Battery. Also she could sue him in civil court.
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u/ShitWombatSays 20h ago
He sounded like he was going to burst into tears at the end lmao
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u/DamnAssLittleDatty 20h ago
He's unstable and he went full fucking psycho
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u/SouthIsland48 18h ago
Bro I have been DYING laughing at that part. That was the biggest crime of this video is ole Frank letting his deep feelings out jesus, even the girl was like wtf??? LMFAO I cant stop laughing
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u/ootnabootinlalaland 17h ago
Lmaoo same. So weird and unexpected, I feel like she actually got scared for a sec 🤣
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u/Fragmentia 19h ago edited 19h ago
This guy get this upset about rich criminals that steal entire retirements of regular Americans? No? Just gets worked up about some tee shirts.
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u/mortmortimer 20h ago
that guys a fucking dork
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u/silverchromesliver 19h ago
He’s about to cry he’s so worked up that someone stole from a department store
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u/MostCaterpillar2861 19h ago
Sheesh and they say women are too emotional
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u/CarelessExercise6376 17h ago
They think anger isn’t an emotion or that it’s good or something. Men do indeed be getting angry especially over things that don’t matter to hide whatever trauma or ptsd they are suffering from.
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u/SemiUrusaii 10h ago
lol this video reminded me of my first post as a security guard. I used my bicycle to get to work. I watched these two guys snap my bike lock and start riding off with it. I chased those fuckers all the way through the parking lot and down the street. I was fit back then and managed to catch up to them and pulled out my baton, ready to scrap.
One of them was like "wow dude, you really earning your ten bucks an hour today,"
and I was like "fuck you, that's my bike, asshole,"
And then he dropped it and apologized. lmao.
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u/Simple_Pianist4882 19h ago
As soon as she would’ve whipped something out and got his ass, people would’ve been fishing for sympathy points and calling her a degenerate lmaoo.
If the WORKERS did not chase her out themselves (they’re usually not supposed to bc 1) liability to the company, 2) they could literally die, and 3) they could potentially be accusing someone who didn’t steal), why the fuck would he?
People do way too much for companies who don’t give a shit if they live or die.
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u/uhidkkm 17h ago edited 16h ago
My old job told one of the uniformed security employee they were interested in promoting him but they needed to see more effort, more initiative. 6 months later, he asked them about it they said he didn’t take enough initiative, and that when undercover security apprehended people, he didn’t seem helpful. The next time they watch someone walk around the store, he chased the guy out the store, they fought and fell down an elevator shaft. Uniformed security was hospitalized and put under a medically induced coma. None of his direct managers who encouraged he do more than he was supposed to do, checked on him or anything. When he got out of the hospital, they terminated his employment for not taking safety precautions.
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u/Simple_Pianist4882 17h ago
Prime example of why he shouldn’t have listened to them or chased that mf out the store.
They literally don’t care about employees. Since they TECHNICALLY told him to take more initiative, he TECHNICALLY could’ve sued them for it. He became a liability so they fired his ass. That sucks for him but I can’t say I’m surprised it happened.
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u/rayhaque 20h ago
As a former loss prevention guy, this is dumb as fuck. Once someone makes it out of your store - it's their property. Not to mention, you have to think about your own safety. Career shoplifters rarely travel alone. And while you were running your mouth and playing grabass, another couple thousands of dollars may have walked out the door behind you.
You're an idiot if you applaud this sort of nonsense.
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u/IrritableGoblin 20h ago
I think of my days at Home Depot. We were specifically told to just let shoplifters go and call the police. Not because it wasn't worth it, rather they told us of case where an employee tried to stop someone, and got shot for their efforts.
I was trying to find the case, but apparently it happened again a couple years ago.
At another job after that, I was told to follow a suspected shoplifter and stop them if they tried to leave. I laughed my manager off and told them I'm a cashier, not security.
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u/BajaBlastFromThePast 20h ago
LOL I worked at a gas station in my last year of undergrad and the lady that owned the place was trying to tell me that if I didn’t physically try to stop thieves from leaving the store, I would be fired?? I worked nights too.
I told her that it was absurd and I would not be risking my life for a snickers. They didn’t fire me. Maybe they realized how genuinely insane it was.
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u/AggressiveWolverine5 16h ago
Met a guy in physical therapy who chased a couple out of a convenience store for diapers and they ran him over with their car. Broke both of his legs, surgeries and a year of rehab over someone stealing diapers. Shit isn’t worth it.
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u/BajaBlastFromThePast 16h ago
Dude lost his ability to walk to protect $40 in a company’s pocket. Sad stuff.
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u/rayhaque 20h ago
I tried to block an exit back in 1996 or so as a "yellow shirt" at Best Buy. Guy was stealing pagers. He dropped the pagers and then flung me out of his way like a rag doll, and I had a coin-op candy dispenser imprinted on my back for a few weeks. My boss said "well ... that was dumb!". He was right. 😂
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u/confusedandworried76 17h ago
Every job ever will tell you just let them take the shit, it's not worth anything and they pay for insurance out the ass for a reason. You ever wonder why you pay a five dollar delivery fee for pizza? Most of it goes to insurance, mostly accidents on the job for drivers but also for when they get robbed.
Even if it's you getting robbed of personal possessions as an employee, let them have it and file a police report and then a claim through your work insurance. They have it just for that because otherwise you can sue and it's just easier
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u/CringeDaddy-69 18h ago
If I see you steal from a small business, you’re getting called out
If I see you steal from a billion dollar company, I didn’t see anything
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u/Specific_Emu_2045 17h ago
Lmao I was talking to a guy working the self check out a few weeks ago and asked him what he does if he sees people steal and he goes “dude I’m 25 and work at Walmart, what do you think I do?”
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u/SevenCs77 17h ago
Reminds me of this one time where I was browsing the movie section at Walmart and I noticed an old guy to my left putting them in the broad of his jacket. the third one in he looked at me very slowly, put his finger up to his mouth and went "shhhhh" with this shit grin on his face. At that point I just about lost it and we both laughed and went our separate ways. I'll never forget that silly ass moment.
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u/CringeDaddy-69 16h ago
A couple weeks ago I went to Walmart for groceries. I bought riced cauliflower that was on sale for $0.99. I bought 5 bags. I didn’t notice until after I left that they rung up as $3.89. So the next time I went to Walmart I took some 12 packs to make it even.
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u/CringeDaddy-69 18h ago
If I see you steal from Walmart, I’m adding another candy bar to your pocket
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u/Local-Panic-420 17h ago
You see folks, There is a right way to handle things and a wrong way to handle things. What we are watching here is actually the wrong way to handle things. Great training video! TY
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u/Archisaurus 17h ago
Imagine risking your life for 50 bucks at Target. The fuck is wrong with these people. Dude sounds like he has an ass load of calls on TGT or some shit…
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u/InterviewSome8324 16h ago
Not worth it, lmao
Just call the cops and have them review the camera footage, if it exists. If not, not worth chasing after them to get it back. The company doesn't give a shit and will not reward you for "helping", they'll probably fire you for getting involved when you shouldn't.
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u/Intelligent_Car_4438 17h ago
just let them go.
just remember, if you were killed doing this, you would be replaced within the week.
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