Saw a robbery today....

96tacolx

96tacolx

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Was loading up several sheets of OSB at Lowe`s this afternoon. Had the truck pulled up at the loading zone area within just a few feet of the glass doors. Heard a lady from inside yelling "Help, Help" . About that time I saw two big guys running thru the doors, hands loaded down with several huge DeWalt cases.

First instinct was to respond to the lady yelling help. I was already in mid-stride, when another employee outside, saw what was happening, yelled "Don`t". It`s surprising what all you see, hear, and respond to within just a few seconds! At the same time I`m thinking, "these two guys are big and are about to mow me over" so I side step just as the employee yelled. We watched the two jump into a waiting car and speed away. The employee told me that they are not allowed to touch them.

I guess I woosed out :shaking:
 
Sounds like you smarted out to me. You risk your life for loved ones, and sometimes strangers...but not for tools..lol
 
Friend works at the lowes here in morganton, a while back a few guys in a newer white silverado pull up, go in and steal a set of bolt cutters, walk out and cut the chain on the mowers, put a small zero turn in the bed and drive off. Apparently stuff like this happens all of the time. I always think to myself in there how easy it would be to just walk out with a lot of shit if you were yourself a piece of shit.
 
I used to wokr at Lowes, and on two occasions, someone took power tools into the garden center and threw the cases over the fence, walked around, picked them up, and hauled ass.
 
tknopp said:
If a weapon was involved to commit the crime then it was a robbery. From what you describe it was only a larceny.
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A robbery can be committed without a weapon. Threats, force or intimidation cause it to be a robbery as well.
 
In every other country in the world, somebody would have gotten shot. The wussification of america.
 
sgtbriangreen said:
In every other country in the world, somebody would have gotten shot. The wussification of america.
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completely agreed! hell even if you shoot somebody stealing from your property you can still get in trouble for it...and if you dont kill em you get sued
 
When I worked at Lowes, to actually convict someone of theft was a PITA. They had to have them on camera entering the store, entering the department where the stuff was, see them steal, them leave the dept with the stuff, and leave the store with the stuff.


We used to get people go to the craft wood area, load there cart up with $1000 of oak, push the cart straight to the return desk and get a store credit and go buy a riding lawn mower. They now have a receipt for the lawn mower they just stole
 
sungoesdown said:
When I worked at Lowes, to actually convict someone of theft was a PITA. They had to have them on camera entering the store, entering the department where the stuff was, see them steal, them leave the dept with the stuff, and leave the store with the stuff.
We used to get people go to the craft wood area, load there cart up with $1000 of oak, push the cart straight to the return desk and get a store credit and go buy a riding lawn mower. They now have a receipt for the lawn mower they just stole
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!!!!:D

never thougth about that
 
I have also heard that most stores like HD and Lowes have a "don't touch them" policy because they are afraid of hurting the shoplifters, and then getting sued! What crap. America has really given the bad guys the upper hand, and we are stuck flipping the bill.
 
sgtbriangreen said:
In every other country in the world, somebody would have gotten shot. The wussification of america.
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Huh? Countries like what? England? Scotland? Australia? Any of the other countries where the citizens aren't even allowed to have guns and it's questionable as to whether or not the cops will have one? Or are you suggesting that the criminals should have come in with guns a-blazing? :shaking: I'm all for protecting your shit and carrying guns, but I'm not about to draw down on somebody until they're a threat to mine or somebody else's health. A few hundered bucks worth of merch isn't worth it for me to have somebody's life on my head for the rest of mine.
 
If you ever leave wal-mart and the security thing goes off and you stop, if the people greeter or any employee touches you, that is 15k guaranteed.
 
Yeah, I've seen it happen at Lowe's, too. A guy would pick up a tool case, then go mill around by the door for a second, looking at the generator display or something. Wait until somebody with a cart full of crap starts heading for the door and walk out at the same time. The honest guy always stops, the guy with the stolen tool doesn't.

It makes me wonder, though.... read stories about people getting detained at Best Buy for trying to pay with $2 bills, but you can watch people steal stuff at other stores. It's got to be more an issue of corporate policy, and just how much "shrinkage" they're willing to tolerate vs. lawsuits from the wrongly accused.
 
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