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serious gaylord posted:I see the Terf Labour Councillor lost then. If not for the toxic witch-hunting of the woke left,
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Jan 19, 2024 13:35
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I'm all for the dank popemobile
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Jan 19, 2024 13:36
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ThomasPaine posted:One thing I'll never understand is footage I keep seeing on social media of normal members of the public fully going out of their way to apprehend people they've caught shoplifting, informing the staff and calling the police etc. Sometimes even risking their own health by fully tackling people. Just your average people, but completely unaffiliated and maybe out for milk. There's always people cheering them on the comments as well. If I see someone stealing I just laugh to myself and think good on them.
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Jan 19, 2024 13:40
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TACD posted:apprehend a shoplifter and collect double clubcard points on your next shop! in three years you will have to citizens arrest at least three criminals a month in order to get any money off deals at all
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Jan 19, 2024 13:45
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mrpwase posted:I remember when I was 18 and in my first year of uni, my then girlfriend shocked me by saying she didn't have any problem with shoplifting. I was properly unseated by this, couldn't get my head round someone thinking like that. Even at that stage in my life, with that worldview, I wouldn't have confronted a shoplifter. I went on a shoplifting spree when i was 18, i went a bit loopy after seeing two neighbouring girls get run over and doing it made me feel alive for a little while (yay for lack of therapy in 1980s N.I. !!!).  I paid the price for that and got on with my life afterwards.
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Jan 19, 2024 13:54
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Jan 19, 2024 14:13
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coincidentally enough I saw an older guy walk out of sainsbury's up the road this morning after slipping a bottle of milk in his coat or rather, no, I didn't I mean there was a bit of shameful behaviour involved tbh it was green top
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Jan 19, 2024 14:15
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I'm unashamedly team semi-skimmed
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Jan 19, 2024 14:18
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Stealing where there's no adjacent victim may be a crime but justice is blind when it happens near me.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:19
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i think those people who go in and nick a full trolley of stuff in broad daylight are taking the piss tbh
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Jan 19, 2024 14:20
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they're ruining it for the other shoplifters who really need to nick stuff so i've no problem with them getting a hiding
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Jan 19, 2024 14:20
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The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam  Is this a thing now? Is this one of those things that's been happening for ages but I only just noticed?
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Jan 19, 2024 14:22
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Angepain posted:a Keir Starmer government will finally bring about the year of linux on the desktop Someone asked him his feelings on BSD and he said it was anti semitic.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:22
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crispix posted:i think those people who go in and nick a full trolley of stuff in broad daylight are taking the piss tbh I kind of admire the chutzpah, because I could never do that
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Jan 19, 2024 14:22
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crispix posted:i think those people who go in and nick a full trolley of stuff in broad daylight are taking the piss tbh IDK gives the more desperate shopper cover if the rozzers are barreling after the trolley bandit.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:23
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Wachter posted:The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam Haven't seen that in Tesco but many variables to consider. Maybe I'll try the one on the rougher side of town and see if it's different.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:24
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Wachter posted:The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam It's been a thing in some places for a little while. Some shoplifters get increadibly violent if you confront them. And as shoplifting is way up so is violence towards staff
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Jan 19, 2024 14:25
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Angepain posted:a Keir Starmer government will finally bring about the year of linux on the desktop This is stolen valor from the Steam Deck and I won't have it.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:26
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Wachter posted:The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam Yeah, I worked in Tesco during lockdown and they were brought in around that time because customers were going ballistic when you tried to get them to follow social distancing.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:27
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Wachter posted:The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam Yeah this is nothing new, it's getting increasingly common in pubs too
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Jan 19, 2024 14:28
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:This is stolen valor from the Steam Deck and I won't have it. Release Half-life 3, Gaben No Alyx doesn't count
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Jan 19, 2024 14:29
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Wachter posted:The guy watching the self-service tills (not a security guard, just checkout staff) at Aldi just now had a loving bodycam it's been a thing since covid, people regularly behave like animals in service environments, seems
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Jan 19, 2024 14:32
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Tesseraction posted:the rozzers are barreling after the trolley bandit This sounds like a sentence from a tabloid from an alternate universe where tabloids have good politics
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Jan 19, 2024 14:32
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Mega Comrade posted:It's been a thing in some places for a little while. Why would you ever confront one. You're just ruining someone's sneaky but ultimately victimless crime, and you're risking injury and legal consequences to boot. I wouldn't bother even if I was staff*, and I think quite a few places have a policy of not chasing shoplifters in any case, they just pass the footage on to the police and I imagine claim the difference back from an insurer. *I would be a very poor security guard
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Jan 19, 2024 14:33
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I wouldnt rugby tackle a shoplifter but I've always fancied a cheeky trip on a mugger
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Jan 19, 2024 14:33
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I've been learning to drive lately, and with PIP, I'm eligible for a Motability leased car, is it a good deal? Does anyone have experience with that? It's like they take 50-70 quid out of your PIP per week (based on what you choose) and lease you a new car and also provide insurance in that price. It's the insurance part that appeals to me the most since if I'm reading it right, that lease + insurance cost will be less than just the insurance on an old car I actually own, as a new driver. I've been trying all the permutations in the insurance finder websites and the numbers are eye popping. My grandmother had the motability car and if you think you're gonna use it a lot then it's probably a decent deal. But in her later years she scrapped it and just got taxis instead which I think you can also have the money for instead?
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Jan 19, 2024 14:38
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ThomasPaine posted:*I would be a very poor security guard Especially those whose media environment is made up of Richard Madeley and Jeremy Vine doing variations on "if I saw someone commit a minor by-law offence I'd pull out a pair of those stabby things from the turtle mutants and be like heeeee-yoh well not me personally but other people should be doing that."
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Jan 19, 2024 14:38
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I wouldnt rugby tackle a shoplifter but I've always fancied a cheeky trip on a mugger Oh yeah that's a different thing entirely because you have to victimise and threaten an actual person to do it. I just assume every mugger has a machete under their coat though so I'd probably just hand over my poo poo lol. For some reason this is reminding me of when I came second in a poker tournament a few months back and in my slightly inebriated state decided to walk home with £500 in my back pocket at 3am. I've never had any bother of that kind before here but that would have been a hell of a day to break my lucky streak lmao. I'm surprised shady people don't loiter outside the casino waiting for anyone who looks pleased with themselves and decides to leave alone on foot. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Jan 19, 2024 14:40
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answers posted:yes Christ
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Jan 19, 2024 14:41
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DesperateDan posted:coincidentally enough I saw an older guy walk out of sainsbury's up the road this morning after slipping a bottle of milk in his coat I rememebr when I was working in sainsburys and a guy stuffed a big choccy bar into is coat and then looked up directly at me, I think he shat himself a little bit cos he legged it past me lmao. As long as you don't fight anyone or wreck the shop I don't bloody care. Better than the guy who skidded round the corner with a bag full of spirits and crashed straight into my display and went sprawling on the floor. loving pina colada over everything. Dickhead. Took ages to clean up.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:45
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ThomasPaine posted:Why would you ever confront one. You're just ruining someone's sneaky but ultimately victimless crime, and you're risking injury and legal consequences to boot. I wouldn't bother even if I was staff*, and I think quite a few places have a policy of not chasing shoplifters in any case, they just pass the footage on to the police and I imagine claim the difference back from an insurer. Often it's customers who get involved. Didn't feel very victimless when one guy pulled out a syringe and threatened me with it.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:45
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I saw a security guard tackle a shoplifter directly into the sliding doors at the exit hard enough to pop them off their slidey rail bits, but in his defence the guy had done his thievery by targeting and then assaulting a disabled member of staff after they unlocked a cabinet to fetch some expensive electrical thing so the oval office had it coming.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:46
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Mega Comrade posted:Often it's customers who get involved. Yeah sometimes involuntarily too, if they do a runner they often smack into customers on the way out. Course to an extent that's still an issue with the store protection trying to collar them but they often don't give a poo poo about the other people in the building. I once had a guy storm out cos the store asked him to pay for his bag of shopping and abandon his kid in a pushchair in the process. There's some right wankers out there.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:47
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah that's a different thing entirely because you have to victimise and threaten an actual person to do it. I just assume every mugger has a machete under their coat though so I'd probably just hand over my poo poo lol. One of the things I enjoyed about Spain is that muggings are basically non existent. Pickpocketing is a fine, but using threats or violence is jail time, so everyone just gets good at pickpocketing, so it's a game of skill.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:49
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Even with the sneaky ones who avoided violence, spending ages trying to track down stock that's missing was a constant nuisance. Get a customer phone up asking for an item I'd see 5 in stock so tell him to come in and then turned out they had all been knicked. I was then left with a customer berating me for wasting his time.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:50
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It's a difficult one cos whilst I'd never even consider stopping or snitching on someone I'd seen, I'm not sure I'd ever encourage it because of the staff If it gets done in front of staff you're putting them in a lovely position where if they blatantly ignore it they could get pulled up on it and disciplined
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Jan 19, 2024 14:50
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I would clothesline and armlock people who start eating the food in the shop before paying for it.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:55
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Skarsnik posted:It's a difficult one cos whilst I'd never even consider stopping or snitching on someone I'd seen, I'm not sure I'd ever encourage it because of the staff Yeah this is about where I'm at. I genuinely don't care what someones doing as long as they aren't loving with the staff but it's helped by me being so bored and self absorbed while shopping that I probably just won't ever notice anyone doing anything like this anyway so even if I wanted to narc (which I don't, to be clear) I wouldn't be in a position to.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:57
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We could have a society where we made sure that people were fed, and that'd render the "is it wrong for a starving person to shove a shop worker to steal a loaf of bread" debate moot. Instead we have one with articles like "I lied to a priest on Easter and said my children were starving and he gave me all this food, disgusting, broken Britain." NotJustANumber99 posted:I would clothesline and armlock people who start eating the food in the shop before paying for it.
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Jan 19, 2024 14:59
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I'm not gonna let shops think they can offload their security onto customers for free. That's like game companies offloading their QA onto customers with all the early access bullshit Shops can hire their own security if they don't want poo poo nicked. Create some goddamn jobs you fuckers
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