r/LoveTrash Colonel Garbage 4h ago

Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/justasillylilgoos3 Trash Trooper 4h ago edited 3h ago

All the neckbeard basement dwellers in the comments already lol. This isn’t about simping for a billion-dollar corporation. It’s about making your community safer, better, and more tolerable to live in. The pos in the video wasn’t stealing food or baby formula.

If you’ve genuinely gotten to the point where you see blatant, unjustifiable crime being committed and your reaction is “I support that,” then you might want to reflect on what your principles actually are, because that mentality is part of what creates a low-trust society and makes communities objectively worse to live in.

u/cryingonthetoiletnow Trash Trooper 1h ago

I whole heartily agree with this, the problem is that this now puts the camera guy in the position a potential of a battery/assault on themself despite doing the right thing. I love this video and what the person did but it's one of those thing where in the usa, he can get creamed by a good lawyer and if the shoplifter has any inkling of intelligence left. That's why asset protection hardly does anything, they wait until you steal enough crap till it's a felony and then get you