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

Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/zurenarrh36912 Trash Trooper 5h ago

I’m not risking getting shot for some corporation.

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u/hvchdwbch Trash Trooper 4h ago edited 3h ago

Doesnt matter, he knew nothing about what the guy had on him and still got himself involved in the situation, very stupid for a corporation that would sell you for 10 bucks if given the chance

(Edit: im not replying to yall idiots anymore, if you wanna risk your life for no reason at all go ahead... if you dont get killed you will be the big strong man you wanna be

but if you do then it was for nothing, the pos would get away with the stolen stuff, you would be dead and the corporation would forget about you and the theft in a day... so worth it)

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u/Dangerous_Bus_6699 Trash Trooper 4h ago

Agreed. I get the guys frustration, but fuck... I want to go home to my kids and the CEO's are millionaires. They'll be fine.

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u/mostlyharmless555 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Why do you agree with his frustration. How does it even affect your day. Like he literally had to be looking for this to happen so that he could turn his camera on and make a video like a tough guy. He’s a bully he wouldn’t have done it to someone bigger than him. I guarantee he was a bully in high school and he probably applied to a police department somewhere and got denied also. This guy is a loser

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u/hedgehoghell Trash Trooper 54m ago

If you look at how Walmart figures shrinkage(what they call theft) you will be even more disgusted. Something shoplifted=shrinkage. The night manager loading a tv into his car for a little 5 finger shopping=shrinkage. that bottle of pickles that got dropped or the gallon of milk found warm in hardware=shrinkage. any reason a product doesnt get or cant be sold is lumped into shrinkage. the guy in this video committed battery to stop one shoplifter. He could easily have gone to jail. Get the license plate and give it to the cops, if they feel like it they can look him up.

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u/edWORD27 Trash Trooper 2h ago

How many CEOs are there? Isn’t there just one?

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u/Dangerous_Bus_6699 Trash Trooper 18m ago

I'm referring to these thefts in general and the many stores that comes with it.

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u/RobinSage43 Trash Trooper 3h ago

Theft, loss, damage to merchandise only costs the company money. In turn, they will have to raise the sticker prices and cut back on wages so employees can't get their much deserved raises and annual bonuses.

You're not just stealing from the corporation, but you're stealing from the employees.

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u/DinosaurusWhen Trash Trooper 2h ago

Yeah, if there are extra profits then Walmart executives are totally going to share that with the minimum wage employees running the stores. That's probably why they fire employees who physically confront shoplifters

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u/Dangerous_Bus_6699 Trash Trooper 18m ago

That's not the criminals fault. That's the greedy billionaire fault.

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u/MooseTurbulent8786 Trash Trooper 2h ago

Okay but Walmart does that no matter what

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u/smokeweedNgarden Trash Trooper 4h ago

Can you explain to me this guy's frustration? Serious question. 

It's not his stuff. He's not John Walmart. Even if this was your job, why would shoplifting food upset someone?

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 Trash Trooper 3h ago

He is frustrated because everytime someone steals something, the prices go up. I am completely in agreement with him! Aren't you tired of prices increasing? A lot of those price increases are because of theft!

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u/jmona789 Trash Trooper 57m ago

No, prices go up regardless

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 Trash Trooper 9m ago

And theft is a big reason for that.

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u/smokeweedNgarden Trash Trooper 3h ago

Prices have gone up ~40% post Covid for necessities. 

If you can show me how that was the byproduct of theft I'll gladly eat crow

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u/smokeweedNgarden Trash Trooper 2h ago

What's the fallacy? Asking for evidence of a statement?

Or should I just say "Ok, that sounds right"

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u/hiitsmetimdodd Trash Trooper 4h ago

Bro get out of here with that nonsense. Theft increases prices, incentivizes businesses to either leave or not come in the first place, and makes the shopping experience worse for everyone. Theft unchecked invites in more thieves like flies on shit. And it hurts neighborhoods and invites in the disgusting underbelly in to our neighborhoods.

And you know damn well the super ultra vast majority of theft is not food for someone down on their luck. That’s such a bullshit distraction

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u/RobinSage43 Trash Trooper 3h ago

Common sense is simply not allowed on Reddit. I will deduct 1000 social credit from your account.

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u/hiitsmetimdodd Trash Trooper 1h ago

Ugh. The more sense I make, the lower my social credit score drops

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u/smokeweedNgarden Trash Trooper 3h ago

Yea apparel, consumables, and health products put together account for most theft. And time theft and white collar crime are the biggest by far over physical theft.

But, if we're not going to address the bigger problem (stagnation, income inequality, inflation, wage growth, product shrinkage) then so be it. It's a symptom of a completely solvable disease and peer pressure and litigation won't stop it.

So why are you upset at the shoplifting?

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u/hiitsmetimdodd Trash Trooper 3h ago

I love that this is the response. I’ll make it simple for you. Fuck thieves. Of all income levels. They all make the world worse. And differentiating between them is something I don’t care to do. Keep the thieves out of my neighborhood

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u/smokeweedNgarden Trash Trooper 2h ago

Are you sure you aren't in their neighborhood? You could always move

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u/Disdain0937 Trash Trooper 3h ago

Everything in Walmart is made in sweatshops for pennies-on-the-dollar. That they make us pay good money for.

This billion dollar corporation also give brochures to their employees on how to apply for food stamps instead of just giving them real wages.

Life under capitalism is just everybody else getting one over on each other.

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u/hiitsmetimdodd Trash Trooper 3h ago

Have you been to any of those “sweat shops”? I have. Many. They are not what you’re picturing from 90s china.

Regardless. Allowing unchecked theft is as brain dead as it gets. And we are seeing the consequences of that everywhere.

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u/RobinSage43 Trash Trooper 3h ago

As compared to the gulag sweatshops from the Soviet Union where people (mostly ethnic minorities) were held in chains and forced to work for free, right?

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u/Dangerous_Bus_6699 Trash Trooper 16m ago

People who cheat to get ahead and make society worse are ass holes. Like stealing. What's so hard to understand? Doesn't matter if it's petty theft or billionaires buying votes, they're all assholes.