I hate people, I blame myself

[Stryker One]

A good walk ruined.

Eh, a golfer. If it comes back, just shoot it.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm not sure if this is the case where you live, but here where I live the store has the right to request to see the contents of someone's bag. Although, purses are exempt from that, which is understandable if it's a small purse, not so much with the huge purses though.

From what I understand, privacy laws in the US forbid public stores from demanding that people show them their belongings prior to exiting.

Generally, someone that is staff has to witness the snatch and then watch the thief until the step outside the door, at which point they can be nabbed for it.

But if they don't see it themselves or they lose sight of the person (at which point they could have put the item down again), then they have to suck it up and eat the loss. Unless they have unbroken camera footage, anyway.

It's a shame, but that's one of the trade-offs we happen to live with.

^-.-^

[ShadowTiger]

One of the very fancy and extremely powerful, not to mention ungodly massive, cutting devices that took up easily one shelf that should not have been able to support its weight was stolen last week. Nobody knows how anything that massive could've been stolen. It'd have to have been cleverly walked out with as if the guy just bought it. It's the only way I can imagine stealing something like that.

[Andara Bledin]

Nobody knows how anything that massive could've been stolen. It'd have to have been cleverly walked out with as if the guy just bought it. It's the only way I can imagine stealing something like that.

He put it on a cart and wheeled it out the door like he had every right to do just that.

And nobody who saw him thought otherwise because surely, nobody would be that brazen.

^-.-^

[eltf177]

Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who left the construction site every night with a wheelbarrow full of sand. The security guards dug through the sand, sifted it, and one night even made him dump it before he left.

It finally dawned on somebody he was stealing wheelbarrows, not sand...

[Eireann]

Or that wonderful short story about guards on the Mexican border who are going crazy because the same guy keeps crossing the border, and they KNOW he's smuggling something, but they can never get him on it, because they can never find anything. The ending is classic!