If someone is trying to murder you please don't come in...

[Aislin]

Ugh, such a winner came in last night. My shift lead had just gone to her lunch so technically I was unsupervised. Her sup was somewhere in the building but like most nights we have one walky for five of us. One of the stockers came up all wide eyed and panicked and said some guy wanted to talk to security. Well as you walk into our store you walk past the only security, a nice semi-autistic kid who mostly walks and circles and wiggles his pen while preventing beer run, super sweet kid, but not really a security guard in the traditional sense. He is great at shoplifters and such but isn't intimidating in any way. He is hard to miss. I go ask him if the guy had talk to him. He chuckles and says basically the "customer" had a problem that was beyond his scope and he,had told the guy to call the police. I manage to track down a radio and call a manager. I don't want to talk to this dude but he becomes a problem later on. Management comes, gives him the same advice. He gets an attitude and calls the police. For what I gather, he pissed off some local bad boys and now is hiding out in our store as the guys are now trying to kill him. It is Friday night and in this town, unless you are currently being murdered, the cops are busy with drunk drivers, domestic disputes, loud parties and real crimes, such as the methheads and such that on a Friday or Saturday we have waited 15 hours or more to get a teen runaway shoplifter picked up. Yeah, the cops don't really have time for this stupidity of, "I pissed someone off I'm hiding in a retail establishment come save me" . The cops basically tell him, it is a long wait, we have real calls ahead of yours, stay out of trouble. He proceeds to follow each of us around in turn pestering us, but just the ladies. The guys he is afraid of. He asks me if he is in my way. I say Yes, he stays in my was saying sorry he just doesn't feel safe or secure, over and over again, then he asks if we have someplace secure we could put him. I tell him flat out, we are a store, all our secure areas are off limits to him and he needs to get out of mjy way I am busy. He then asks if my coworker who just got back from lunch was hired today and is new, I sigh and say No everyone working tonight has worked here for over a year to please get out of my way. Coworker is an ex drug dealer and hyper aware of his surroundings and said to me privately there were five guys patrolling the lot looking for someone, so yes the guys fears were pretty valid but, whoa,nice guy putting us all in danger like this. Finally because I tld the guy, dude the police are NOT coming right Away you need to gtf away from me he decides to stand less than a foot behind our cashier twitching and panicking, And then call the police and tell then 5 men are surrounding him and pointing guns at him. This of course makes the dispatcher suspicious as how is he calling if five guys have guns drawn on him? So they call the main line and of course we have cameras and no men with guns are in the store surrounding the guy. Now the police are pissed. They Hate coming to our store as our customers are a special kind of stupid. They are mostly nice but annoyed and so a patrolman comes in and talks to the guy. We are so behind that I don't have tome to listen in but they guy stays two yards from the cop at all times, he makes a statement and argues with the cop for over an hour. Then the cop leaves. Leaving the idiot there. When I left 2 hour later he was still jabbering on his phone to dispatch.

[Argabarga]

he just doesn't feel safe or secure, over and over again, then he asks if we have someplace secure we could put him.

I suppose a pine box under six foot of earth would be marginally more secure. Though, from the sound of it, the only place you'll find that at this hour is out in the parking lot.

[shopgirl15]

argues with the cop for over an hour

Seriously?

[AccountingDrone]

*sigh* and you would get in trouble for telling him he made his bed and to go lie in it.

Don't piss people off if you can't handle the result.

[Keiara]

He could've just gone directly to the police station....what a moron for putting everyone else in danger

[EricKei]

There are so many layers of Stupid on this guy...but I'm only gonna peel back one: If he had the cop there, why didn't he just ask the cop to escort him to his damn car and follow him home?

[XCashier]

There are so many layers of Stupid on this guy...but I'm only gonna peel back one: If he had the cop there, why didn't he just ask the cop to escort him to his damn car and follow him home?

Well, he's already shown that he's rather lacking in the brains department. Putting two and two together like that might make his head explode, then the thugs will have their work done for them.

[Limescale]

Methinks this guy was one of those aforementioned methheads who was unable to pay his end of a deal, and the real reason he didn't go to the police is cause he didn't want to get arrested.


But then that still sounds too sensible for him.

[Mriswith]

I may be wrong to think this way, but after about 2 hours of this guy following everyone around I think I would have gone out and brought the 5 guys inside to just get rid of the guy. If I already told you that I can't help you, pestering me isn't going to get you help. It's going to have the exact opposite effect.