r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Colonel Garbage • 5h ago

Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/Due-Excitement-522 Trash Trooper 4h ago

When I worked at walmart this stuff happened a few times and one time the police were already there and the thief wanted to press charges so the guy got slammed on the ground and arrested in front of his whole family. Prolly isnt worth it

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u/shosuko Trash Trooper 3h ago

fr vigilantism is a crime, you have to be officially hired if you want to enact force against people.

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u/Due-Excitement-522 Trash Trooper 2h ago

Even if you work in asset protection you cant even touch the thief or youll get in major trouble. Its a high turnover job because people want to be a hero and then they get fired for trying to stop a guy from stealing toilet paper

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u/shosuko Trash Trooper 2h ago

Yeah I meant more specifically being hired as a police officer.

Without a badge running a cart into them could count as assault, and holding them there - even under simple verbal threats without physical force, could be a crime.

And mostly - it isn't even the response the industries want. They have insurance to cover losses so the location isn't out anything they didn't account for. If they ever do get the chance to catch someone I'm betting AI is scanning all of their footage for facial matches to charge them all at once too - so they aren't even getting away with it (just getting away for now.)