Protestors Gather at Wildberries Today Due to Viral Video of Employee Detaining Shoplifter
Protesters gathered today at Wildberries in Arcata. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Dev Campbell, A Cal Poly Studio Arts major on the right, holds a sign that aid Buy One Get Assaulted For free. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Demonstrators talk with a person leaving the parking lot of Wildberries Marketplace in Arcata on Saturday following leaked video of an alleged teenage shoplifter in an altercation with a store manager was posted on local media sites. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A second video purporting to show the same employee with another alleged adult shoplifter “from over a year ago” can be found by clicking on the right arrow on this r/Humboldt Instagram post.
A protester walks to join the second group on the Northwest corner of the parking lot. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A post on the subReddit Humboldt shows a leaked memo from the owner of Wildberries to the employees.
According to California Law, a shopowner may detain a suspected shoplifter forcibly. “A merchant may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an investigation in a reasonable manner whenever the merchant has probable cause to believe the person to be detained is attempting to unlawfully take or has unlawfully taken merchandise from the merchant’s premises.” A website by Shouse California Law Group states, “During a lawful detention, a merchant can: examine any items a person tried to take, and conduct a search.” https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/laws/shopkeepers-privilege/
Protestors spoke with a person walking their dog who said they would head to the Arcata Co-op and not shop at Wildberries Marketplace on Saturday. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
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I am completely on the side of the employee; and these protestors seemingly don’t have any respect for the law or businesses that are trying to make a go of it. I hope the employee gets a raise and/or a reward for looking out for the store’s bottom line.
Obviously you’ve never been Calcium Deficient! Dairy is the Rage with young people. They’ll stop at nothing to get their hands on the Cow Juice.
Talk about Lactose Intolerance! You people just are too lilly livered to drink heartily of of the nutrient rich exudate of American Ingenuity: the Cow!
Can we expect any 50 something year old LADY worried about creeping bone density loss, and looming expiration dates to get DRY HUMPED by a virile herbal tea jockey every time we shop(lift) at Wild Berries !? I should SAY!
Asking for a friend ?
Your prodigious lexicon and articulate elocution out you as an meddlesome bohemian interloping amoungst this customarily loutish aggregation.
Welcome, friend!
What’s up with all the William F. Buckley sycophants?
Spare us the philosophical metaphors.
Points!
You caught my allusions to the transient nostalgia of youthful desire, and our craving for simple human contact. And Milk: Sometimes, as you pass through middle age, you miss wrestling.
The schools give away milk for free.. Regular and Chocolate. Just saying.
What if you are cutting school that day?
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Hopefully, one day you will grow up and look back on your post and feel humiliated and embarrassed that you wrote it; it basically screams “I know nothing, and proud of it”.
‘don’t have a cow man’- b. simpson
The great Winston Churchill once said….” There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies”.
But cow can that be good for the bottom line of a business?,?
I am COMPLETELY on the side of “Just My Opinion”!!! Aka JMO sans GMO’s n’ growth hormones. Thank you JMO.
My Life has transitioned from ignorance to enlightenment.
I have never, MY soppy milk-paw, to the Great Lord above….and I mean EVER..never have I read such a moving/ inspirational work of prose. “Just My Opinion” has “Just Changed My Life”. Oh, not even talking 8 Maids a Milkin’. Oh sweet Land-O-Lakes changes my life, but like….Udderly opened my soul and has shifted me to new Horizons. Got Milk? You ask….I got JMO! As if Kamadhenu gifted me a DairyGold bounty… of which I am not worthy.
Who KNEW? I Curdn’t have Known. Genius, Brilliant. Thank you! I shall preach what you have taught me.
So that I, too shall Holsteiner than Thou. I shall just sit in my tower and preach to all…I can only hope to someday support someone else’s bottom line.
Just like a herd of cattle we follow you JMO.
PS. Ms Fabreezy? It would Be-Hoof you to start thinking about respecting our laws and businesses, like the Dairy Queen or King or Them! Kind of a punny smarty pants, aren’t ya? Maybe JMO is the friend you’re asking for?! JMO cheddar not be your friend! JMO is so be soft served as JMO knows all.
Oh Febreezy, you and your Flink are just milking the system! Not giving a teat about anything. Ok, I am ‘bovinely’ finished.??
Thieves get zero sympathy from me. School breakfast and lunch are free now and milk is always available.
Soooo now it’s child abuse if you don’t let them steal what they want? I watched the video and the manager was trying to get the girl to stop and of course the THIEF didn’t want to be caught. The manager THEN grabbed THIEF and the THIEF tried getting away. Moral of the story is don’t be a THIEF, pay for the items you get and like magic nobody chases you out of the store, more than likely the clerk will say thank you, you get to continue to patronize the store and best of all you can sleep better knowing that your not a lowly THIEF.
Exactly!
Sooo. Football players don’t shoplift?
“Woke” idiots, each and every one of them. There is an old saying, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The sign that the girl is holding up that says, ” buy one, get assaulted for free”…….that’s the whole problem, she didn’t buy SHIT! He didn’t just go after her for no reason.
I’ve always had pleasant experiences in wildberries, maybe because my mother didn’t fail society and thought me that stealing is wrong.
how come the slappy-kicky rebel kid submitted to the cop
Maybe she’d had previous experience.
This is awesome! It doesn’t get more ” HUMBOLDT” than this .
Any city in the U.S.A. .
I wonder if the protesters know the definition of embroidery.
That wasn’t “violence” or “child abuse.”
It was reasonable force.
I don’t support this protest. Yes, the way the manager pinned the girl against the wall was disturbing and creepy.
Good to see you agreeing with both sides here. How very opeen-minded.
I can see a person who is very sensitive to altercations finding this distrubing. The creepy part I do not understand, in what way was it creepy?
It was the pinning against the wall, it just looked really creepy for a grown man to do that to a teenage girl. It isn’t like she is stronger.
I also am sure she didn’t have to steal milk. She could ask someone to buy it for her outside the store. She can’t get someone to buy her milk in crunchy Arcata? Please, pull the other one.
I think they are both wrong and the adult should be mindful of the optics of pinning a girl against the wall.
What did you want him to do, hold her at bay with a bunch of carrots?
Would you rather the thief be placed on the floor and sat on? The store staff acted correctly.
Look at all the clowns that think it’s OK to steal. Try that at the store that is near me. You think that manager was rough? Citizens arrest is 100% legal in California, and so is reasonable force to detain the person. You WILL end up in handcuffs if I catch you!
The girl repeatedly tried to punch him in the face and kick at him. Holding her down by the wrists was the minimum, if it was a guy there’s a good chance he would have got his face worked over.
I shoplift there all the time. I tuck dietary supplements, onions, and air freshener under my voluminous purple shawls, and into ample crevices. I’ve never gotten any attention from the Man rager.
I am not surprised that an incredible, community-minded, small business would be met with protesters. Disappointed, and will continue to shop Wildberries Market! Phil Ricord and staff are part of the community that contributes to our well being!! Thank you Wildberries!!
There is a difference between stealing milk or make up but they are both stealing.
She should have asked.
She should have PAID.
Yea let him get by with it so
He can graduate to armed robbery and spend time in prison. If you stope it now, with force if necessary he might learn a lesson otherwise his behavior will continue and escalate.
The thief was a female, not a “he”.
I don’t think its appropriate these days to comment peoples gender identity.
Gender identity is just more liberal BS. It was a girl.
It’s a shame in commifornia my AR can’t identify as a pistol. It’s discrimination I tell you!!
My new personal pronoun. It.
“Well… It failed to comply. Owner took It’s gallon of milk away.”
(Let’s see if this post disappears.)
I don’t see why your post would be taken down. You’re allowed to identify as you wish and I have no problem respecting the choices you make about yourself. That’s kind of the whole point.
No it forcing others to lie and control their speech.
We seem to have different definitions of the word “force.” Bozo didn’t force me to accept the pronoun it choses to refer to itself. I simply respected its choice. Doing so literally cost me nothing.
That isn’t an issue when dealing with an anon. They might be a dog, you don’t know. When dealing with a person face to face, I won’t lie and pretend.
I also strongly believe women and girls have a right to single sex spaces away from males. I think they have a right to their own sports. I think women and girls need sex based rights that males do not need and I’m tired of pretending some men are somehow women in some magic essence way. It is insulting womanface. I would not put up with blackface why would I play along with this nonsense? Why would anyone put up with this nonsense? You are unkind to women.
If the truth is not hate. I’m not going to use your words.
We called it slapping sense into punks and it often worked…
You just like the idea of beating up girls.
Yes- I also identify that she was a male. I feel strongly about this and so I will call him a he also from now on…until I feel that I identify differently about him. That’s how it works, right?
I’m in complete agreement with every other commenter here. I hope Phil (wildberries owner) doesn’t cave to a handful of entitled millennial brats and their awful parent role models.
Imagine, an issue that brings together everyone on Kym Kemp.
Completely agree. You gotta HUNCH them young. Teach em a lesson. Starts with gogurt. Then escalates to chocolate milk. What’s next?! Brie? Teen age girls shoplifting? Never heard of that…before the Biden Newsome Pelosi descent into the maelstrom of Communist Narco Dairy Tourism. WALL!
Hmm, I see what you’re doing. I have a couple of millennial daughters myself and I raise them to not steal (yes, it starts at gogurt) and to be responsible members of society. If they got caught by Aaron at wildberries I would shake his hand and thank him for doing my job for me. I got caught stealing as a teenager more than once. Each time it was humiliating and probably extreme.
In my case it was always Grateful Dead tapes.
When I was 10 years old I attempted to shoplift. The owner caught me and slapped the shit out of me and marched me home. I never forgot that experience.
So you’re the guy who got my Cornell ’77 tape?! That’s okay- I thought the St. Louis show was better anyway)
Troll
Side with the employee.. shoplifters shouldn’t get away!!!!!
That employee was a little too hands on, etc.
He could have detained that teenager without so much physical contact.
Something tells me that he wouldn’t have bothered getting so physical, if it was some old sweaty stinky dirtbag…?♂️
Grab the unique blue backpack with all her homework in it? Call the police?
Get these idoit protesters out of here!
We need a line of middle aged men all doing the Dirty Dancing moves, advancing slowly on the protesters, making smoochy lips.
Consequences is a word that every kid should understand. That way decision making can be more prudent.
All me peers regardless of family wealth were shoplifters. They stole for the fun of it. They wanted me to steal too. The crowd actually pressured me. Said I would be uncool if I didn’t. I just said no thanks and left them in the store and walked an hour home. There was no way I was going to let me father down. He had given me the talk about consequences a month or so before this exercise in social courage occurred. How me father thought of me meant more than what the crowd thought of me. Next day at school the crowd wasn’t there. They were all in county juvenile hall having all been caught with their jackets full of stuff they’d pinched! All ended up going to live with relatives in another location and I never saw that crowd again.
That’s the problem kids don’t believe in consequences, very rarely held to them.
Kids these days just don’t have any business acumen, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Kid Twist “…developed his own brand of celery tonic, a mixture of syrup and carbonated water…(still available today as Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda), and distributed it to small shopkeepers at an inflated price. Any store owner who refused to buy the Twist brand had his business…to …and his… threatened.”
Rogue’s Gallery, John Oller
If the minor said, “I need milk but don’t have money. Can I sweep floors or something?” the same manager would have bought it for her.
Anybody would have bought it for her. Myself included!
Three things things come to mind immediately, The first one is Exodus 20:15, it says Thou shalt NOT steal. The second is, Let him who stole steal no more! Ephesians 4:28. The third is from ME and it goes;
“ if it ain’t yours don’t touch it!“
Actually, I’d like to post the entire verse of Ephesians 4:28. It’s a really great verse and it’s what I study personally to learn how to be a good human. Maybe it’ll help some of y’all as well. ♥️?♥️
? Ephesians 4:28(Holy Bible)
“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
God bless you for your sharing of the Word.
The two others that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified with on the road into town are refered to as Thieves or fellow Rebels, depending the translation.
MAN-age-er Humphuncher: “sure just come on back to my office”
The pictures of the protestors says it all. Parents from out of the area looking at this newly created “Cal Ply Humboldt.” Just don’t!
I always just drink the milk in the store
Of course you do
Yes grey Fox. At the very least teach the kids how to not get caught. Little brats.
Cereal Shoplifter?
Well…this is the downside of a college town. You get a bunch of irresponsible morons agreeing with each other about the new definition of “child abuse” and “assault” and they can always pick up a few more idiots along the way. And then they all think they must be right because they agree with each other LOL! And they actually believe they are doing something good when they are actually embracing thievery and promoting crime as a right. Her mother! Her mother should be ashamed that her daughter has no morals or personal responsibility and wants to publicize that she is a wonderful thief and a victim. Bizarre! Her mother IS the problem. Aaron handled it well and deserves congratulations from all of us who are sick of seeing our society coddling the thieves. Thank You, Aaraon! And…Thank You, Phil! Do not give these misguided fools anything…they deserve shaming, not any concessions whatsoever. That these people would publicly display their faces embracing thievery is a testament to their mental illness…
Okay…I just reviewed photos and they are almost all young kids. Maybe I was harsh…they are ignorant and misguided. Maybe not stupid and mentally ill. They might still grow up and use their brains!
I seriously doubt they will…use their brains that is. Did you see all the signs? What a bunch of Muppets. I swear this generation is so doomed. Maybe if they could identify as productive members of society the future wouldn’t look so bleak.
Bless the young people for speaking out, and sharing their concerns, whatever they are! If they don’t our country is (especially) screwed!
Right on, Ben. I’m criticizing them but yeah- they are stirring it up so that’s still better than staying home playing video games. You are right to give them blessings….may their little brains grow and learn
We can always hope that some of them may surprise us…I too was a juvenile delinquent
I’m hoping you take this with the good humor I intended to convey…but that does not surprise me.
Well said, farce.
I would hope so, also…
That would not surprise me, if some of them surprised us…?
I too was a juvenile delinquent…
Honk if you hate thieves
Honk, honk, honkhonkhonk. Can ya hear me honkin?
There is a similar article over on Lost Coast- except only comments with which the moderator agrees are allowed to be posted.
Once again, Kym, I would like to thank you for allowing people of different viewpoints to express their opinions here. Although, it this case, the peanut gallery does seem to be largely in agreement.
I’ve been censored by lost coast outpost with very reasonable comments, that don’t jive with the business owners. (Try posting something critical of the tribes in any sense) Its not an open discourse on that site, it is a disgrace.
All the more reason to support Kym and her huge tolerance for free speech.
Loco staff needs to intervene, I don’t think they realize how extreme the moderation has become.
I voiced concerns about sewage disposal for the Trinidad casino proposal since the nearby ocean and beaches have been increasingly contaminated by dysfunctional outhouses and livestock, most of which are from local homes and ranches not typically tribal. Angie never cut me off. Later, when I saw the sewage plan, I relented. Angie appreciated my change of heart but there was no coercion. Kym has posted rules which I have tried to follow but get called once in a while.
Well, your experience has been different than mine. I’m always polite but often disagree with the knee jerk left and the group think. Good old fashioned debate isn’t the model there, it’s all about self congratulatory up votes.
And Angie and Mabel always have the last word. It’s despicable that they pretend it is free discussion. Hank swung from Thunderdome to fascist nanny state….
Yup. Censorship is very active here too.
Kim deleted my post about it being an ‘Arcata’ and ‘Humboldt State’ thing.
See if she deletes this one too.
No one deleted anything. I’ve checked SPAM and TRASH. There is no such comment
If Kym censors you, you deserve it. No special interest here.
I stopped using that site a few years back for that very reason, censoring comments that were not controversial, just not in agreement with the story.
It’s an odd business model to drive away patrons.
It’s also detrimental to the progressive causes they purport to espouse. The whiny cancel-culture is a huge turn-off to many would-be supporters.
Comments on loco were nearly the same as these comments. Except lots of comments on loco saying “if that were my kid id really kick their ass when they got home”.
I think these protesters are stupid, I also think the manager went way too far to take out a teenage shoplifter he outweighs by 50 pounds
The comment section on LoCo’s article about the release of the video have dozens of “This comment was deleted.”
The article about the protest was pre-moderated which allowed only comments with which the moderator agreed to be posted.
Yeah yeah thanks. I get it. Loco is an echo chamber with an overbearing fascist for a moderator. I get it. Again thanks
Unfortunate for society that the youth of today do not face consequences until the cuffs go on.
What I want to see is a statement from the protestors about exactly when the fruit-of-their-loins CAN be held accountable for their behavior. By the time they are 12 or 13 it’s too late.
An employee has a legal right to physically detain a thief until the police arrive. The video did show evidence of the thief punching and physically assaulting the employee, the family should be happy they are not getting sued and losing their home.
Personally I think California should build a big tent prison in the Central Valley, anyone convicted of shoplifting or robbery should sentenced to 6 months of hard labor picking fruits and vegetables.
The law is don’t steal,if you do you pay the price .Protestors teach or tell your friends not to steal stop wasting time and follow that law.
Who doesn’t enjoy the occasional mediocre gyro..
I agree with all of the comments here so ditto from me
A lot of these commenters don’t understand how Wildberries has profiled many other people, REGARDLESS of whether they had actually stolen or not. There were many people, of different genders and race, who had shared their experiences with the crowd. Many were physically assaulted or accused of stealing DESPITE having a receipt. No, I do not think stealing is okay when it comes to local companies, but NO ONE should be pinned to the wall or thrown to the ground. I’ve worked in retail, I’ve been trained to handle a shoplifting situation and in NO WAY do the policies encourage ANY employees to use physical force. The proper approach is to confront the shoplifter, and if they do not return the item, call the police and let them handle it. Aaron Gottschalk does not CARE about our community and neither does Wildberries. Stand with the community instead of a store that endorses physical violence and avoids taking accountability. HOLD AARON GOTTSCHALK ACCOUNTABLE AND FIRE HIM.
No, I support him and his action.
Ummm… I’m going to call BS on this one. Although the video I saw was without audio, I have no doubt that he would have asked her to stop before he grabbed her backpack.
So you demand accountability from the business that is being victimized, but do not demand accountability of the community members? The businesses that support the communities are more a part of the community than the community members that steal from the community.
If we allow shoplifting and stealing to be acceptable misbehavior the perpetrators will become more aggressive and the community will lose businesses (ex: San Francisco). The action of the perpetrator usually dictates how they are going to be treated. Comply with requests and no need for use of force.
Walgreens Closing Stores Over Shoplifting Fears
https://youtu.be/89BcnObuSEY
Shoplifters suck, and I agree that shopkeepers should have the right to use reasonable force to protect their property. But that story’s not entirely factually accurate.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting-retail/index.html
“Walmart CEO on rise in retail theft: Prices could go higher and stores will close.”
https://youtu.be/6iWgizk6kH4
Locally the “Humboldt Thieves Facebook page appears to show more retail theft and other as well than it used to.
The more Walmart stores that close, the better. That will help create more locally owned businesses, which in turn helps the community be more financially stable.
biggest offender of wage theft in USA
Thanks.
Evidence? Link? Video?
She was not “profiled”. She is a thief caught stealing.
In the video, Aaron confronted the shoplifter, who did not return the item. So Aaron called the police who handled it. That’s exactly what you said to do. It’s IN THE VIDEO! You must really hate this guy.
“Dreamscape” is right.
This generation’s idea of physical assault is a stern look
The multiple genders are upset! Oh sorry, just do what you want all the time!
Shop lift a penny candy , shop lift a real fur coat, it’s stealing!! Not what is the normal!, other countries cut your hand off for this b.s. your darn lucky!
No matter what a person thinks of this incident the “cut of hand” comment is bizarre. Maybe you should move there.
It’s not a bizarre comment. There used to be very Stern consequences for shoplifting. In the United States we would hang people because these people were stealing other people’s livelihood.. Society has just become spoiled rotten and removed from world world consequences.
some rookie protesters cannot determine how a person can move to portland from suburbs of CALIF, but here’s this weak shit for free and cameras
You have to remember, Arcata coupled with a herd of youngins from the college equals protesting everything. Not surprising, it makes the protestors think they are experiencing the late 60s all over a again or for the first time. The shoplifter person is lucky she isn’t in the Middle East. She would learn real quick, minus a hand. Stealing is a dirtbag crime on par with more serious ones because you are taking something which someone else owns, you are invading their space and taking their stuff. Scummy behavior which deserves a penalty. Good for the manager for protecting his business.
Young lady is going to have a problem if next time it’s the cops who try to stop her and she tries to kick them in the groin. Obviously not going to learn much from this experience since her mom is considering filing assault charges against the manager. Child abuse….not!
Just bullshite the hair color with these freaks explains it all go woke…..leave u.s.a. Go to china
What?
Go woke get the F out. Find a better place best of
luck
What?
Was the store’s security footage
subpoenaed before it was uploaded to reddit?
The surveillance footage on reddit would have had to have been subpoenaed, what is the case associated with that?
According to the letter to staff from the owner included in the article, a staff member with access, without permission copied and shared the footage with others.
Does that mean it’s stolen? Thanks.
That might depend on intent or on the perception of the owner. He did not say stolen.
Good to know.
Easy fix, Trespass the kids from the premises, problem solved.
I think all protesters should post their address and leave the door open . It would save these poor folk from going all the way to the market when they need milk. SHOW YOU REALLY CARE. Stop hiding .
How ridiculous, they’re protesting a crime being stopped with minimal force, she was even the aggressor. This is an education/parenting failure
Pretty pathetic Cal Poly. Criminals should be held accountable.
What does Cal Poly have to do with it?
Wild berries wouldn’t exist without the High School, and the University. So while this girl stole a jug of milk they’re gonna toss anyway, the store took in $1,000 from the other students. If you want to ban her shame her, and make her understand consequences, YOU got to play by the rules too. It’s the same with criminals beating a charge after experiencing excessive police violence. It overrides their crime. Did the manager discourage shoplifting I’m this case, or did his over zealous hunching on the teen backfire? He might lose his job over that jug of Kow-laid.
The alternative is letting her and others shoplift without consequence. This has the effect of causing stores that service many people to close.
So it is a selfish and anti-social act that victimizes the many to honor a subset raised to believe they are above the law that holds society together.
And the effect on this subset is to reward a personal corruption that will only get worse leading to their own moral and personal decay.
Clue: The Reddit leaker introduced that the stolen item was milk and under $10 while releasing a “grainy” version of the security tape, probably re-recorded by phone, to satisfy their personal agenda. Courageous whistleblower or lying back-stabber? Your pick.
I submit we don’t know what was stolen. That well-dressed student was hardly stealing to eat. And when someone detains you for a crime, kicking and punching is not the appropriate response. Waiting for the police is. As for the misandry, the “creepy” comments I see, it’s not okay to kick and punch just because you’re female. If you do, it’s entirely reasonable to restrain you against a wall and take you to the ground to avoid injury from your violence.
As for the mother and the protestors, I get it, stealing is not a problem unless it happens to you. How about if each of their neighbors came to their house and pulled a board from their fence for firewood and ran away. No violence. It’s only a board. It’s needed for heat. When it came time to pay for a new fence, I’m sure these social justice warriors would be singing a more selfish tune.
Let’s see the videos of him detaining a football player. I’ll wager on selective enforcement. A store policy that requires detention must be applied to ALL suspects.
So you’re implying the big bad store manager picked on a little girl because he was a coward. A store manager is probably much more afraid of spurious lawsuits. Also, as a former bouncer, I know a football player is less of a worry because he knows kicking and punching a store manager means jail.
Consider the stores in the bay area closing due to theft. Then there’s the mob store smash and grab looting. In San Francisco pilfered items are sold in open markets by the BART stations. Sure things could have been handled differently. But theft is theft, not to be justified or minimized.
Similar happened leading up to the French Revolution…careful that the unhoused and poor don’t continue to grow in number and in anger. Not saying she is poor or what her reasons were. And the mobs in bigger cities or wherever and the vast numbers of poor in the streets are a symptom of things our community has created, even materialism and greed can be mitigated or instigated by cultural values. Kids have been shoplifting forever and while it is so obviously wrong and thereby easy for keyboard warriors there are means other than only punishment given kids with better things to do are usually doing just that. Kids don’t usually shoplift for the fun of it and if so shows they don’t have good options for getting their energy out which is also community responsibility. Much easier to say the obvious “Shoplifting is wrong” “bad children” “Bad parents” yawn…not going to solve anything. Go upstream and try to understand. At least ask a question once in a while.
“Kids don’t usually shoplift for the fun of it ?” Of course they do. Always have. It’s part of growing up to learn the world is not your parent owing you what you want. And that taking from someone else does not generally solve what stresses them.
Right. Kids usually shoplift for fun, because it’s thrilling and makes them feel powerful, unless they get caught; then the thrill is gone, not too thrilling riding in the back of a police car, hands behind the back in handcuffs.
Those stores that are closing are the biggest culprits in wage theft…again on this thread; “look!, a squirrel!”
‘Steal a little and they throw you in jail steal a lot and they make you king. ‘ Bob Dylan said that. It might not be related to this thread.
O no, I find it belongs here…
I haven’t been to Wildberries for a long time. I might make a special trip there just to support them.
I’m sure they need it.
Don’t these idiots realize shoplifting is a crime? Give the employee a raise.
LOSERS. Steal from LOCAL business? Steal from ME? I’ll cut your hand off! She’s LUCKY! Lesson learned LITTLE GIRL! Disgusting local gypsies! Y’all TRASH & we want you all gone! Go to Portland, they love pos’s like you all.
Protect that business locals! Bust those vermin! ?
Love the store all you want, they don’t love ya back. Ride your BMX up here and find out.
To the parents of the child shoplifting, If it were my child I would march her down to Wildberries to give an apology. Make her own responsibility now before she gets herself in a worse situation. One that you can’t help her with. Teach her how to make good choices.
It really does take a village to raise a child. This is a teachable moment. Use it wisely.
♥️? Prayers for your family.
I would warn her that it puts her in a dangerous situation with a grown man who may think he has some kind of psychological pressure over her. It ain’t worth it.
Set her down and watch “The Legend of Billy Jean.”
Nice comment. Maybe the school can counsel her in what career she’s interested in and she can put her energy into that. If she continues shoplifting, schools and employers frown on applicants with a record.
Thief apprehended and detained for law enforcement.
I love a story with a happy ending.
When are we going to have a protest in support of business people and to protest the lawless shoplifting that hurt as all?
Don’t steal. In some countries they’ll take a finger, then a hand. A little physical restraint seems like minimal recourse.
I was going to write something pithy, but I’m going to Wildberries. I need to steal my lunch. Yay, no one will stop me! It’s a free for all! Phil’s laughing though; he’ll just keep raising prices to cover the losses.
The protestors are all probably under 25 and have no real concept of the real world. When they get older they will realize how stupid this is hopefully. Maybe they all shoplift also and donate want tomcat caught. LOL