So I haven't posted anything on here for a while. I don't have much to say besides a couple of work stories from this week, so continue reading if you feel like it.
The first one happened earlier this week. There was a guy who we saw pick up a couple of DVD's and then take them down an aisle that hard to see a lot of it with our cameras. However, we saw enough to know that he put the DVD's in his pocket. He was with his girlfriend. Anyway, I'll spare you the details and get to the good stuff. Yada yada yada, then we went outside to stop him as he walked outside. One of our guys stepped in front of him and did the usual line as me and another guy step in. We inform him that we need to have him come back in the store with us, and so he reaches in his pocket and pulls out his keys and hands them to his girlfriend. He pulls out something else from his pocket and hands them to his girlfriend. Then he tried to make it look like he was going to give his girlfriend a hug, when he took off running in the parking lot. We rarely have three people working at a time, but it so happens that we did that night. He chose the wrong night. Long story short, we had a little scene chasing him into the parking lot where he hit a car trying to dodge into the cars to lose us. There was a person in the car. I'm sure it got her attention. We finally grabbed the guy right in front of the parked cars and brought him to the ground. He fought us, but we were yelling at him to get on the ground. One of us grabbed one arm and I grabbed the other arm and essentially pinned him to the ground while the third guy called 911. 2 of the parked cars facing us had people inside of them, and they got a good show. We had a good little audience on both sides of us too watching from the aisles in the parking lot. We brought him inside and had him empty his pockets. He took 8 things. My favorite part was when he took out two avocados from his pocket that he stole. It resembled guacamole more than avocados. Because it was a 911 call, the officer showed up within minutes, and he got a pretty good laugh at the situation too.
The other story happened last night. It's not really a comedy story as much as it is an abnormal story, which is why I'm telling it. It was the same basic grocery thief gig, with 2 kids stealing a more-expensive-than-average drink. They drank it in the store and threw the bottle away. We stopped them outside as normal and brought them back up to our office. They were juveniles, so we had to contact the parents and have them come pick them up. This is where it gets abnormal. Normally, the parents come, and they're upset. The difference with last night was the fact that the mother of one of them wasn't upset with her kid as much as she was upset with us. Aparently she works in some branch of Law Enforcement, and she demanded to see the surveillance tape. We refused. We told her that we would could and would show the Police Officer if he wanted to, but that we didn't have to show her the tape. She started to threaten to get it subpoenaed in a court, and we told her that was fine. As the guy I was working with was showing the Officer, she tried to peek into the office and peek around the Officer to see the tape. We told her to get out of the office and shut the door. I stayed outside. While they were reviewing the tape, she was just talking about how they're going to get out of this and asking her son questions about it to find out how to get out of it. She told me that she's taking this to court. Frankly, it'd be fun if she did. I'd have no problem going to court on this one. We've got a great tape of the whole thing from start to finish, and there's no way they're getting out of it unless there's some sort of "under-the-table" negotiations that happen where she works. It was just an interesting situation because usually the parent is mad at the child, not trying to support him in being a thief.
The first one happened earlier this week. There was a guy who we saw pick up a couple of DVD's and then take them down an aisle that hard to see a lot of it with our cameras. However, we saw enough to know that he put the DVD's in his pocket. He was with his girlfriend. Anyway, I'll spare you the details and get to the good stuff. Yada yada yada, then we went outside to stop him as he walked outside. One of our guys stepped in front of him and did the usual line as me and another guy step in. We inform him that we need to have him come back in the store with us, and so he reaches in his pocket and pulls out his keys and hands them to his girlfriend. He pulls out something else from his pocket and hands them to his girlfriend. Then he tried to make it look like he was going to give his girlfriend a hug, when he took off running in the parking lot. We rarely have three people working at a time, but it so happens that we did that night. He chose the wrong night. Long story short, we had a little scene chasing him into the parking lot where he hit a car trying to dodge into the cars to lose us. There was a person in the car. I'm sure it got her attention. We finally grabbed the guy right in front of the parked cars and brought him to the ground. He fought us, but we were yelling at him to get on the ground. One of us grabbed one arm and I grabbed the other arm and essentially pinned him to the ground while the third guy called 911. 2 of the parked cars facing us had people inside of them, and they got a good show. We had a good little audience on both sides of us too watching from the aisles in the parking lot. We brought him inside and had him empty his pockets. He took 8 things. My favorite part was when he took out two avocados from his pocket that he stole. It resembled guacamole more than avocados. Because it was a 911 call, the officer showed up within minutes, and he got a pretty good laugh at the situation too.
The other story happened last night. It's not really a comedy story as much as it is an abnormal story, which is why I'm telling it. It was the same basic grocery thief gig, with 2 kids stealing a more-expensive-than-average drink. They drank it in the store and threw the bottle away. We stopped them outside as normal and brought them back up to our office. They were juveniles, so we had to contact the parents and have them come pick them up. This is where it gets abnormal. Normally, the parents come, and they're upset. The difference with last night was the fact that the mother of one of them wasn't upset with her kid as much as she was upset with us. Aparently she works in some branch of Law Enforcement, and she demanded to see the surveillance tape. We refused. We told her that we would could and would show the Police Officer if he wanted to, but that we didn't have to show her the tape. She started to threaten to get it subpoenaed in a court, and we told her that was fine. As the guy I was working with was showing the Officer, she tried to peek into the office and peek around the Officer to see the tape. We told her to get out of the office and shut the door. I stayed outside. While they were reviewing the tape, she was just talking about how they're going to get out of this and asking her son questions about it to find out how to get out of it. She told me that she's taking this to court. Frankly, it'd be fun if she did. I'd have no problem going to court on this one. We've got a great tape of the whole thing from start to finish, and there's no way they're getting out of it unless there's some sort of "under-the-table" negotiations that happen where she works. It was just an interesting situation because usually the parent is mad at the child, not trying to support him in being a thief.
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It was a very late night run that I got back from with a friend.
If we're including runs to the store or good places to get good stuff, we could add a few onto those numbers.