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  • Teenage Shoplifters

    A couple of weeks ago, on 3rd shift, a kid comes in dressed in baggy pants, shirt, jacket, anything oversized (I hate how they dressed like that, annoys the hell outta me).

    Red flag, kid comes in oversized clothes, good way to hide stolen items. So I watch him like a hawk. He sees me watching him constantly, so he wears a shit eating grin on his face.

    "Oh, he's playing games now, huh?" I'm thinking.

    So I go up to the punk and made him hand over the 2 liter he picked up earlier and told him to leave.

    He goes, "Huh? What I do?"

    I don't have to explain anything to him, just told him I don't want him here and I have every right to tell someone to get off private property anytime I want to.

    Spent 2-3 minutes telling to leave or I'll call the cops, etc.

    He finally leaves.

    I call the cops anyway, thinking what business does a 13-14 year old kid have being out walking around town at 2-3 o'clock in the morning?

    Cops find him and they come back later to tell me that the kid violated court imposed curfew and is now sitting in juvie jail.

    Good riddance to rubbish.

    I get kids trying to steal candies and other stuff all the time.

    I even caught a kid hiding a 32 ounce can of Monster energy drink worth about $4-$5 dollars inside a 44 ounce fountain cup filed with ice and fountain drink totaling $1.08 (pro tip: always pick up the fountain cups to make sure the weight feels right.)

    Wish my life be alot easier not having to constantly watch them damn kids all the time. :sighs:
    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Quoth yizuman View Post
    what business does a 13-14 year old kid have being out walking around town at 2-3 o'clock in the morning?
    The only possible excuse might have been insomnia. I've found myself at a 24 hour supermarket at about 3am before now just for something to do.

    Mind you, the fact that he broke a court imposed curfew probably did mean he was up to no good. The retail instincts don't lie, and at that time of a morning, take no chances. The kid needs to learn a lesson anyway, since he obviously didn't before.
    "I'll probably come round and steal the food out of your fridge later too, then run a key down the side of your car as I walk away from your house, which I've idly set ablaze" - Mil Millington

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    • #3
      Quoth yizuman View Post

      I even caught a kid hiding a 32 ounce can of Monster energy drink worth about $4-$5 dollars inside a 44 ounce fountain cup filed with ice and fountain drink totaling $1.08 (pro tip: always pick up the fountain cups to make sure the weight feels right.)
      I must say, that one's rather clever.
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      • #4
        Just to play Devil's Advocate, sorta....the baggy clothes aren't always used for shoplifting (although a lot of times they are)...

        The most popular hip happenin rappers and gangstas wear shirts that are 3 or more XL, and pants about 4 sizes too big, so it looks like they shit their pants and their butt is down by their knees, and their legs look about a foot long total.

        Lots of young men 12-30 years old (sometimes even older!) think that is just teh coolest style.
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        • #5
          The only possible excuse might have been insomnia. I've found myself at a 24 hour supermarket at about 3am before now just for something to do.
          Yeah but at what age?

          At 13-14 there's not usually a good - legal - reason to be up and about cruising by the convenience store alone.


          baggy clothes aren't always used for shoplifting
          True. I use my baggy shirts to sleep in! Especially if they're fleece.

          yeah i'm not much for the baggy look either...

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          • #6
            Quoth MannersMakethMan View Post
            The only possible excuse might have been insomnia. I've found myself at a 24 hour supermarket at about 3am before now just for something to do.
            There's also normal curfew. Where I live at least, age groups have a curfew. They can't be out after x time without an adult, otherwise they get a police escort home.
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            • #7
              Quoth yizuman View Post

              He goes, "Huh? What I do?"

              Being a substitute teacher for 5+ years, I can tell you that's one of the more famous lines from kids of that age group. Translated, it means "you caught me."
              I will never go to school!

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              • #8
                Quoth BaristaTrav View Post
                Being a substitute teacher for 5+ years, I can tell you that's one of the more famous lines from kids of that age group. Translated, it means "you caught me."
                Ah ah ah... not quite!

                It actually means "I've done many things. Before I confess to any, which one(s) do you know about?"

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                • #9
                  Quoth Kyree View Post
                  There's also normal curfew. Where I live at least, age groups have a curfew. They can't be out after x time without an adult, otherwise they get a police escort home.
                  Yeah, the land of the free!

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                  • #10
                    Quoth valhar2000 View Post
                    Yeah, the land of the free!
                    Believe me.. I wish it wasn't necessary. But that's kind of the American way. State-imposed curfews, "ratings" systems, et al. rather than that strange cultural phenomenon called "parenting."
                    I will never go to school!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth VComps View Post
                      Ah ah ah... not quite!

                      It actually means "I've done many things. Before I confess to any, which one(s) do you know about?"

                      That is spot on!
                      My mom's been a teacher for a long time. I've heard loads of stories about the misadventures of certain...characters.

                      My personal favorite is when they will swear they didn't do something, even though you saw them do it.
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                      • #12
                        Friendly reminder that this is not the place for politicial discussions and to please keep this discussion to the suckiness in the OP.

                        Thanks.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth yizuman View Post
                          Red flag, kid comes in oversized clothes, good way to hide stolen items.
                          Oh, yes. Back when I worked at the vitamin store back in the mid-90s, one baggy-clothed kid sauntered about our store aimlessly for a while before leaving. He was caught later at another store in the mall with about $400 worth of our vitamin and weight-gain supplements hidden in his baggy clothing. Scumbag.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth valhar2000 View Post
                            Yeah, the land of the free!
                            Ha -- better follow this up with a diatribe on how "the man" is out to get you

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                            • #15
                              One thing I discovered too is sometimes the person in baggy clothes or otherwise looks like they might be shoplifting won't be -- they're the decoy for the real shoplifter that you won't be paying attention to.

                              Although back in school, whenever someone got called into the office they'd say "what for?" and they really meant it -- they were guilty of so many things, they needed to know what they got caught doing so they'd still get away with everything else. Sometimes the people in the office would play dumb and see what they could get the kid to admit to (and many times it was everything BUT what they were called in for lol).

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