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3 Easy Steps to being Completely Emasculated.
A little bit of background first.
I work at a liquor store a couple of times a week. It's located in a pretty crappy area in B.C's capital. It also has a downside of having 2 entrances, one leading to a parking lot with a single wooden door, and the other leading to the shopping centre it's attached to. This one has 4 glass doors. Because of this less than stellar layout, all the alcohol has sensor detectors attached to them. These are taken off at the checkouts and reused. If you try to go through the doors with them still on, we zero in on you pretty damn quickly.
Next door we have the Pub that is owned by the same company. You have to walk past the entrance to the pub when you leave via the glass door exit.
This happened on a Sunday. It was the night of the company's X-Mas party in January. As such, both locations were closing early so we could all party. At the time of the incident I was stationed at the checkout for the glass door exit, CW1 was at the parking lot checkout, CW2 was fixing up the liquor displays, and M was patrolling the store.
Enter SC1, SC2, and SC3 through the glass doors. At this point I must point out SC3 is about 6'5" and all solid muscle.
Awesome Coworker (ACW) enters the store slightly behind them. ACW has just finished work at the Pub. She is also 5'5" at the most, and petite.
STEP 1: Consult each other about your brilliant plan to steal a bottle of alcohol whilst standing outside the door to the pub. Ignore ACW when she walks past you.
ACW quietly alerts everyone in the store about their cunning plan. Security is called (like they'll even show up). Everyone is on high alert.
STEP 2: Circle the floor several times. Knock back any offers of help from the staff.
Even if we hadn't been alerted, you become immediately suspicious when you do this. Most people enter a liquor store with a particular thing in mind. No-one circles the store constantly without stopping.
At this point ACW comes through my checkout a buys her alcohol (to start the party early!) and leaves. Security hasn't shown up, and no-one wants to approach the group as they haven't technically done anything wrong yet, and because SC3 scares even gym-addicted M.
SC1 and SC2 come through my till and buy a $6 bottle of Sherry. Nothing wrong so far. As they leave, they stop at the glass doors and appear to chat with each other while holding the glass doors open.
Uhoh!
SC3 makes his move. Grabs a large bottle of expensive alcohol and legs it through the door.
Sensors go off.
I yell.
CW1 yells.
CW2 and M start after him, but they're never going to catch him with his massive head start.
STEP 3: Celebrate your victory too early and turn back to sneer at your pursuers.
In his distraction, ACW, who was waiting to see what would happen, drops her shoulder as he passes by her, and rams him.
He crashes to the ground.
ACW stomps up and RIPS the bottle out of his hand and tells him to go @#$% himself.
Disorientated, SC3 jumps to his feet and takes off empty handed.
Yeah, that's right! You got taken out by a GIRL. Not so tough now are ya!
Security finally turns up, but the group of would-be shoplifters are long gone.
Double bonus: Clear pictures of all their faces on our security footage to pass on to the police.
Now, I in no way encourage people to ever take the same actions as ACW, I just thought it was AWESOME!!!
It was also not the first time she's taken a shoplifter out like that since she started work with the Pub.
Guess who got free alcohol all night at the party?
I work at a liquor store a couple of times a week. It's located in a pretty crappy area in B.C's capital. It also has a downside of having 2 entrances, one leading to a parking lot with a single wooden door, and the other leading to the shopping centre it's attached to. This one has 4 glass doors. Because of this less than stellar layout, all the alcohol has sensor detectors attached to them. These are taken off at the checkouts and reused. If you try to go through the doors with them still on, we zero in on you pretty damn quickly.
Next door we have the Pub that is owned by the same company. You have to walk past the entrance to the pub when you leave via the glass door exit.
This happened on a Sunday. It was the night of the company's X-Mas party in January. As such, both locations were closing early so we could all party. At the time of the incident I was stationed at the checkout for the glass door exit, CW1 was at the parking lot checkout, CW2 was fixing up the liquor displays, and M was patrolling the store.
Enter SC1, SC2, and SC3 through the glass doors. At this point I must point out SC3 is about 6'5" and all solid muscle.
Awesome Coworker (ACW) enters the store slightly behind them. ACW has just finished work at the Pub. She is also 5'5" at the most, and petite.
STEP 1: Consult each other about your brilliant plan to steal a bottle of alcohol whilst standing outside the door to the pub. Ignore ACW when she walks past you.
ACW quietly alerts everyone in the store about their cunning plan. Security is called (like they'll even show up). Everyone is on high alert.
STEP 2: Circle the floor several times. Knock back any offers of help from the staff.
Even if we hadn't been alerted, you become immediately suspicious when you do this. Most people enter a liquor store with a particular thing in mind. No-one circles the store constantly without stopping.
At this point ACW comes through my checkout a buys her alcohol (to start the party early!) and leaves. Security hasn't shown up, and no-one wants to approach the group as they haven't technically done anything wrong yet, and because SC3 scares even gym-addicted M.
SC1 and SC2 come through my till and buy a $6 bottle of Sherry. Nothing wrong so far. As they leave, they stop at the glass doors and appear to chat with each other while holding the glass doors open.
Uhoh!
SC3 makes his move. Grabs a large bottle of expensive alcohol and legs it through the door.
Sensors go off.
I yell.
CW1 yells.
CW2 and M start after him, but they're never going to catch him with his massive head start.
STEP 3: Celebrate your victory too early and turn back to sneer at your pursuers.
In his distraction, ACW, who was waiting to see what would happen, drops her shoulder as he passes by her, and rams him.
He crashes to the ground.
ACW stomps up and RIPS the bottle out of his hand and tells him to go @#$% himself.
Disorientated, SC3 jumps to his feet and takes off empty handed.
Yeah, that's right! You got taken out by a GIRL. Not so tough now are ya!
Security finally turns up, but the group of would-be shoplifters are long gone.
Double bonus: Clear pictures of all their faces on our security footage to pass on to the police.
Now, I in no way encourage people to ever take the same actions as ACW, I just thought it was AWESOME!!!
It was also not the first time she's taken a shoplifter out like that since she started work with the Pub.
Guess who got free alcohol all night at the party?
ACW!
Seriously, during a demonstration at her graduation ceremony...she dropped a guy about half her age, and twice her size 
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