On 11/24/11 7:51 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:42:02 -0800, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:11:02 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

On 11/23/11 8:05 AM, BAR wrote:
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Sounds like it's getting dangerous up there north of DC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2eFAZn4kw

Notice what they all have in common - wearing pants. Betcha they're aspiring liberals too!


This is a phenomena that I have been wondering about for a couple of
years. Since the advent of the flash mob the flash robbery wasn't too
far behind. The store staff cannot do anything to stop the illegal
activity regardless of the size of the store. Just sit back and hope you
can collect from the insurance company or chalk it up to business
expense. Even if you had/have a security guard he is helpless/useless in
these situations just as the police are. All the police can do is take
pictures and hope to identify the offenders. Then proving that someone
stole something becomes difficult.

What I am waiting to see is the Occupy assholes occupy a major store
this coming weekend.

It will be interesting to see how the retailers respond to these
criminals and what they do to prevent them. I would start holding
drivers licenses and student ids at the front door. Pick it up on your
way out.

What an imagination. Paranoid delusions that you wish for?

You don't have a clue what you're talking about, which is par for the
course.

What happens here in the two areas we have closest to "urban" is they
have locks or even man traps on the doors and you get buzzed into the
store. The rule is 5 people max at one time.
If you hit the panic bar to open the door the fire department and the
cops come.

We do have a lot better response time than you typically get up in the
blue states.

We also have the "stand your ground" law. It is not a question of
whether a shop keeper can shoot a robber, it is how far he can chase
them down the street before he shoots them in the back.
The precedent has been set at 300 feet down the road without a charge
but the cops are trying to reel that back in a bit.


I presume there are serious legal penalties for a shopkeeper who, while
chasing a shoplifter down the street over a candy bar, shoots an
innocent bystander or two.