SC posing as team member, robs store!

[HappyFun Ball]

Wow! He had some brass ones!

[Sarah81]

Two of my friends got backstage at a Metallica concert several years ago. They were wearing dark polo shirts - and they carried flashlights. Nobody questioned them.

Like others have said: if you act like you're supposed to be there, doing what you're doing, people won't ask questions.

[smileyeagle1021]

I've gotten into work that way before, I needed to go in to make a reservation for myself and I had forgotten my ID card and keycard... i was wearing "business" clothes so I went over and started a conversation with one of the smokers, we talked about how much we hated people who were calling into new york and then I followed them in using their keycard... no one looked twice at me. Which was funny because I didn't even have a headset (then again that isn't so strange, a lot of us leave our headsets in our carry boxes in our cubicles).

[Javarod]

Was it a proper badge, or did it just look like one? Many stores badges aren't all that fancy, you can approximate one fairly easily, not one that'd pass a check, but wear the proper colours and what looks like a badge and look like you belong there, and you can have anything you want.

As to brazen thefts, a few years back I worked for Wal*Mart, and a memo went out to keep a close on on the Black Friday trailer along with any trailers that would be being used to store merchandise as someone'd stolen an entire trailer from the store. Speaking of stolen trailers, someone did this to the Salvation Army out here, so I went to the main office and donated a king pin lock I had left over from an aborted truck driving career, that should slow them down.

[mattm04]

Was it a proper badge, or did it just look like one? Many stores badges aren't all that fancy, you can approximate one fairly easily, not one that'd pass a check, but wear the proper colours and what looks like a badge and look like you belong there, and you can have anything you want.

As to brazen thefts, a few years back I worked for Wal*Mart, and a memo went out to keep a close on on the Black Friday trailer along with any trailers that would be being used to store merchandise as someone'd stolen an entire trailer from the store. Speaking of stolen trailers, someone did this to the Salvation Army out here, so I went to the main office and donated a king pin lock I had left over from an aborted truck driving career, that should slow them down.

My store chain has the storage trailers on the alarm system. Not at all stores, just stores where they think someone may try to break in. They did that after someone managed to pull up to the LD and drive off with a trailer. The trailer only had empty pallets and cardboard bales on it, so ha, all they got was a really big bonfire. Why you would want to steal a trailer form a grocery store, I will never know.

[cinema guy]

I heard of one psychological study--can't remember/find it--where a guy moved into a new neighborhood and started acting like a serial killer. Chainsaws in the middle of the night and always in and out at strange hours were too subtle, so he moved up to leaving blood-soaked sheets on top of his dumpster and changing his address to 666. And on, and on, and no one ever called the cops.

Michael Moore did a skit like that - on TV Nation maybe.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

If you act like you're supposed to be there, and that you know exactly what you're doing, it's frightening what you can get away with. Try driving on to a construction site in a white pickup truck with a clipboard and whit hard hat on the dash. Chances are, nobody will bother you.

I know a guy who threw on a hard hat and walked into my store while they were still building it

[Rahmota]

Record Store Tough Guy

If you act like you're supposed to be there, and that you know exactly what you're doing, it's frightening what you can get away with. Try driving on to a construction site in a white pickup truck with a clipboard and whit hard hat on the dash. Chances are, nobody will bother you.

That reminds me of when I worked security long long ago...

I was workign a construction site on a saturday. The site manager and some other guys where onsite doign somethign and had asked me to look out for some govt dude as he was coming to meet them and if I saw him to escort him to them as they where deep in the building and would be out of radio due to the rebar and stuff in the basement's basement.

So guy comes pulling in driving a truck with the samedeal goign on. Plain white f150 guy in polo and khakis with hard hat and clipboard shows up. He gets out of the truck by the trailer I get out of my little security booth and go over and greet him.
Ask if he's here to talk to frank.
He says yeah.
Ok he said to follow me.
Ok let me get somethign out of my truck.

Next thing I know he doing a dukes of hazard move out of there and I'm playing roscoe going what the ?????

A few minutes later the real dude shows up and explains what was goign on. Figure the dude was ggoin to scope the place out and coem back for stuff later if he couldnt get it out now but having too much attention he chickened out. Amazingly that finally got them to instituit id checks while we where there....

BUt yeah look like you know what you're doing, have the guts to go through with it and have the attitude of I am the law and supposed to be here and you can do amazing things...