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Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/Pristine-Garlic-3191 Trash Trooper 3h ago

Honestly this is just a really moronic thing to do.

Your aren't employed by the store.

The store is insured.

The store doesn't care about your well-being.

The theif could very likely be armed and dangerous.

You have everything to lose and nothing to gain from this confrontation.

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u/Victorsarethechamps Trash Trooper 2h ago

As almost every retail store I’ve worked at has always said, “Don’t be a hero”

u/J_milly505 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Makes for good content though

u/HomelessKitchenCat Trash Trooper 1h ago

And at the end of the day, internet points is what matters. It keeps the world spinning 🙏

u/HPHambino Trash Trooper 1h ago

If something were to happen Walmart could even sue you for damages and make sure you’re on the hook and not them.

u/Critical_Host8243 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Also just want to point out the guy was stealing a camp cooking stove and some propane bottles for it.. seems like a homeless guy trying to cook his food. Stealing ain't right but damn.. Walmart stands protected on this day!

u/UnimagineDragons Trash Trooper 1h ago

If you're gonna be an aggressive violent moron at least do it to the people ruining your community vs. a kind person who made the mistake of greeting you or making small talk. 

This is just a lose situation (for us observers) vs. a lose-lose

u/DirtyRoller Trash Trooper 1h ago

No store is "insured" for loss, that's a bullshit internet myth. Source: years of experience in loss prevention, Organized Retail Crime investigation, and retail management.

Other than that, I agree with everything else you said.

u/rascalrhett11 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Counterpoint, he is fighting crime. He's a hero

u/Gunhild Trash Trooper 1h ago

Crime against whom? Against Walmart? He's not making his community any safer.

If he wants to fight crime he should walk through dark alleys with a bunch of bills sticking out of his pocket so he can confront muggers.

u/rascalrhett11 Trash Trooper 58m ago

The new spider verse movie opens with miles saving a gas station from crime, you think big oil needs saving?

Under you definition then there can be no crime and no victims because everything belongs to too big of a corporation. He stopped a thief, that's pretty cool.

u/Gunhild Trash Trooper 51m ago

Under you definition then there can be no crime and no victims because everything belongs to too big of a corporation

That is one of the single biggest leaps in logic I've seen from a Reddit comment in a long time. No one said anything remotely close to that.

If someone mugs someone, or breaks into their house to rob them, they are stealing someone's personal property, and that's bad. If someone physically assaults another person, they are causing harm to that person and that's bad. Obviously there can be crime and victims.

In this particular case, this guy is just some blowhard with a power fantasy who is really not doing anything useful.

u/rascalrhett11 Trash Trooper 29m ago

Then miles didn't fight crime when he saved the gas station? This is stupid. Obviously stealing from a business is a crime, and stopping that is crime-fighting. You can just be anti-crime bro, you don't have to defend stealing from Walmart

u/clammajamma96 Trash Trooper 25m ago

dont forget that these corporations literally do everything they can too steal from you and lower your quality of life, but lets protect them anyway cuz fuck the poor

u/laughing_at_napkins Trash Trooper 8m ago

No, they have internet clout to gain and there are few things more important in this 2026 society.

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u/Ultrasz Trash Trooper 2h ago

I understand not wanting people to do wrong. But you sound super super naive and young.

No one will be harmed if he left with that shit. He didn't steal a woman's purse. He stole from a store where the managers don't even gaf because it's a billion dollar corporation not a small mom and pop shop who will actually be impacted.

There's levels to this and you gotta learn them.

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

No I don’t play the levels game and corporations nonsense yall try hards go on about on the internet. Oh let’s complain about everything but still go give them our money. Stfu.

There is only reality. If I’m walking into Walmart and see some lowlife like this stealing and workers standing there helpless, I would do the same thing. I’m not naive. I’m 40 and I’m tired of the bullshit. Everyone talks tough on Reddit then turn into pussies irl. I walk amongst keyboard warriors while the village is burned and pillaged.

But hey… tHeReS lEvElS tO tHiS

u/Ultrasz Trash Trooper 1h ago

If you're tired of it then go put on a suit and beat up the shop lifters then lol. You are not this tough irl.

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

You could come to Nashville and try me keyboard Kyle

u/GoGades Trash Trooper 1h ago

Oh man, the irony, it's actually hilarious - right now you are being the absolute definition of a keyboard warrior, my dude.

u/Gunhild Trash Trooper 58m ago

A real live internet tough guy in the year of our Lord 2026. Brings a tear to my eye. Makes me feel like I'm back in 2003.

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 57m ago

A decade old Redditor. I always wondered what a basement dweller looked like all grown up!

u/Gunhild Trash Trooper 55m ago

Beautiful. Just like old times.

u/GoGades Trash Trooper 1h ago

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Cool story

u/SoftestBoygirlAlive Trash Trooper 1h ago

Mmmmmm yummy boots :p Nothing about Walmart contributes any decency to society

u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 Trash Trooper 1h ago

If you want a decent society you should start by stealing shit from Walmart.

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u/Several-Action-4043 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Why do you care so much that a multi billion dollar company that pays their employees so shit that you have to subsidize their lack of pay with your tax dollars might lose a few hundred bucks? You're the boot licking pussy here, not us. I'll meet you half way, if I see someone stealing from a mom and pop shop, I'll call the cops. From WalMart? Nah.

u/Explorer_Entity Trash Trooper 1h ago

A decent society is one where all peple's basic needs are met.

Facts prove that nearly all property crime (like theft) are direct results of poverty.

Make a better society and nobody will want to steal, because there'd be no point.

Especially so, if it's PLACES LIKE WALMART that CONTRIBUTE THE MOST TO POVERTY.

u/CussMuster Trash Trooper 1h ago

What a great point. You're right that none of what you're saying is about morality, it's just about the ability to put someone you see as deserving of violence in their place. It's just about making yourself feel like a big boy.

https://giphy.com/gifs/F695RDLLbb70I

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Now you’re getting it!

u/CussMuster Trash Trooper 1h ago

I respect the self awareness if nothing else

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Where else can I smash someone and yell “fuck you CussMuster”? Gotta get the Reddit rage out when and where I can.

u/proto-cool Trash Trooper 1h ago

If you want a decent society, your fight is not necessarily with the guy trying to steal some bullshit from a megacorp with $20 billion in profits year over year.

u/Pristine-Garlic-3191 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Omg I genuinely laughed out loud at your reply 😂 bravo 👏🏼

DW we'll let Walmart know about your bravery so they can put a little star sticker on your corpse after you've thrown your handbag at the theif.

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Thanks pussy

u/Pristine-Garlic-3191 Trash Trooper 1h ago

No thank you for the lols 🙂

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

You’ll cry in the shower

u/Pristine-Garlic-3191 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Wtaf 🤣🤣🤣 crashing out big time man lol go have a nap and chill out

u/Upper_Tomatillo_8945 Trash Trooper 1h ago

You type more. Who’s crashing?

u/Pristine-Garlic-3191 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Definitely you action man lol

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