Blatant public theft

[89coupe]

Last night at Market Mall I was with the family shopping at Sporting Life when we witnessed a group of late teens, probably 6 to 8 of them, grabbing as many winter jackets as possible and running out of the store. I have never seen this in Calgary before. Crazy times.

[Thaco]

Last night at Market Mall I was with the family shopping at Sporting Life when we witnessed a group of late teens, probably 6 to 8 of them, grabbing as many winter jackets as possible and running out of the store. I have never seen this in Calgary before. Crazy times.

been on the news a few times recently, groups of people doing this at liquor stores.

[Xtrema]

been on the news a few times recently, groups of people doing this at liquor stores.

I thought that's just winterpeg.

Also, I believe the police has moved out of Market Mall and CF has not raised the security presence like Chinook. Easy target.

That's said, I would believe whatever they took would probably be under $300 each, I remember all Canada Goose are cable locked.

[realazy]

been on the news a few times recently, groups of people doing this at liquor stores.

Happened at the Chinook Apple store a while ago too.

[ExtraSlow]

Becoming pretty common.

[ZenOps]

NE gonna.. Oh wait that's NW.

Can't blame though, its gonna get cold tomorrow, and if another FEB hits - its a matter of survival.

[pheoxs]

Happened at the Chinook Apple store a while ago too.

Costco too, they cut all the cables on the demo ipad/computers and stole a bunch

[killramos]

Happened at the Chinook Apple store a while ago too.

I’m sure Apple has them all bricked by the time they get home.

[AndyL]

I’m sure Apple has them all bricked by the time they get home.

They get stolen for parts... 5 minutes to pop the screen out that's 3-500$ profit...

[killramos]

People repair Apple products?

[AndyL]

People repair Apple products?

Those poor folk who don't applecare yup.

[D'z Nutz]

Damn. This is what happens to kids who drink pop without permission. No respect.

[ExtraSlow]

Damn. This is what happens to kids who drink pop without permission. No respect.
Nice call-back.

[SJW]

Nice call-back.

We're gonna need a reference thread to this.

[Disoblige]

We're gonna need a reference thread to this.
Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361858-How-to-raise-perfect-special-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

[Xtrema]

Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361858-How-to-raise-perfect-special-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

TIL 89Coupe's daughter is now Vegas legal. :D

[FraserB]

Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361858-How-to-raise-perfect-special-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

All I got out of that thread is that 89coupe’s daughter is 21

[adam c]

Last night at Market Mall I was with the family shopping at Sporting Life when we witnessed a group of late teens, probably 6 to 8 of them, grabbing as many winter jackets as possible and running out of the store. I have never seen this in Calgary before. Crazy times.

It's the new craze on the internet now... since they're teens they're protected by the young offenders act and won't get anything other than a slap on the wrist

[Mitsu3000gt]

I had friends who worked in loss prevention at Chinook all through University and I hung out with them regularly on the job. There is literally no consequence to getting caught, and loss prevention employees aren't allowed to chase people out of the store so the theives just need to out run you for a few moments, and no loss prevention employee making $15/hr is going to risk their lives chasing/tackling some crackhead out of the store who might have a weapon. Grab & run is the way to do it as long as you can make it to the door. Teenage girls stealing makeup was the most common thing we saw, and also crackheads with babies - they put the goods under the child so that they could raise a huge stink if they got searched/arrested. Some people would line their purses with tinfoil to defeat the magnetic alarms at the doors and then just pretend they didn't speak English when caught. If you're under age or a first offense, they just call your parents and then you go home after giving back the stolen goods unless something has changed. Sometimes Police would come to "scare" them. They then fine the parents $500 for the disruption to the store and potential lost business due to the 'scene' and hit you with a ban from the store that is not in any way enforced. Also, if they suspected someone is stealing, and they lost sight of them for even 1 second on the cameras or undercover in person, they couldn't do anything about it because it's possible they dumped the goods before leaving and a false arrest was a huge hassle for the store, not worth the price of whatever goods are lost. So yeah, there is no actual punishment whatsoever so as soon as you find that out, and are underage, you can have at 'er if you have the balls to try it and you will very likely get away with it. I don't recommend it but it was quite shocking how little consequence there is for blatantly stealing stuff.

It's really not much unlike home/vehicle break-ins. They aren't investigated and there is no real consequence unless you are caught red-handed by the police which the chances of are basically zero in your typical 2-5 minute smash & grab.

[suntan]

Beyond meet and group steal?

[TomcoPDR]

I had friends who worked in loss prevention at Chinook all through University and I hung out with them regularly on the job. There is literally no consequence to getting caught....... Teenage girls stealing makeup was the most common thing we saw.

I don’t know man. I’ve seen a few surveillance videos where the guard make some pretty insane searches and unusual requests, maybe that’s for the States. Some of these thieves are decent looking and will do basically anything to get out of prosecution.

[Thaco]

I don’t know man. I’ve seen a few surveillance videos where the guard make some pretty insane searches and unusual requests, maybe that’s for the States. Some of these thieves are decent looking and will do basically anything to get out of prosecution.

you've been watching too many pornos

[TomcoPDR]

you've been watching too many pornos

I don’t even have the lifetime membership :poosie:

[ExtraSlow]

Beyond meet and group steal?

Yeah bro. I could use a buncha pairs of kids snowpants. Would save thousands.

[J-D]

There was some group of kids from Dover or Forest Lawn who were doing this and then made a music video with the police footage... I think it got taken down though.

[speedog]

The Huntington Hills Superstore liquor store say they're getting hit 2-4 times a week and sometimes more than once a day by groups of people. The group storms the store and one of them usually has a weapon of some sort, in one instance it was a broken bottle. Theft insurance for the these places must be getting crazy.

[ExtraSlow]

Mandatory firearms for all cashiers.

[Thaco]

Mandatory firearms for all cashiers.

but then ASIRT would have to investigate

[ExtraSlow]

but then ASIRT would have to investigate
That'll mean more good middle-class government jobs, it's a win win.

[Rocket1k78]

I don’t know man. I’ve seen a few surveillance videos where the guard make some pretty insane searches and unusual requests, maybe that’s for the States. Some of these thieves are decent looking and will do basically anything to get out of prosecution.
How dare you go against mitsu?! he knows everything about everything because he knows people ok:rofl:




There was some group of kids from Dover or Forest Lawn who were doing this and then made a music video with the police footage... I think it got taken down though.
The 7-11 right by forest lawn high school finally shut down after more than 25 years of being there. I hung out with the owners cousins girl friends little sisters friend back in the day and she told me they were losing 10k plus a month from theft.
On a more real note lol, I was having lunch at Rang dong and talked to the owners son and he said they were losing over $10k a month from theft.

[speedog]

That's a lot of dine'n'dash.

[mr2mike]

Watched as people got off Ctrain downtown while two guys attempted to get bike lock off a bike they more than likely stole.

[370Z]

That's a lot of dine'n'dash.

I'm calling absolute bullshit on that. If it was that much, why not institute a pay first policy for everyone.

[speedog]

I'm calling absolute bullshit on that. If it was that much, why not institute a pay first policy for everyone.

I was hoping Rocket1k78 would provide more details.

[ianmcc]

The 7-11 right by forest lawn high school finally shut down after more than 25 years of being there. I hung out with the owners cousins girl friends little sisters friend back in the day and she told me they were losing 10k plus a month from theft.

All 7-Elevens in Canada are corporate owned stores.

[Rocket1k78]

I'm calling absolute bullshit on that. If it was that much, why not institute a pay first policy for everyone.
I had a hard time believing that too but its not that crazy when you think about it. Works out to about $330 a day and if you park out front for just 10 minutes during the lunch hour you'll see the amount of kids in there.

Pay first policy for a convenience store :rofl: How would that work?
When i was a kid i never knew exactly what i wanted when i went and the fun was walking around grabbing whatever looked good, my kids now are the same way lol We'll go up and down the aisles a couple times



I was hoping Rocket1k78 would provide more details.
Posted all the details i had already, talked to the pho place owners son who has been there for over 20 years and thats what he said. Not really super confidential info i dont think, they probably just asked the property owner why 7/11 is leaving after so many years


All 7-Elevens in Canada are corporate owned stores.
How could you miss that joke lol I said i was hangin out with the owners cousins girl friends little sisters friend bahahaha and i even said on a more real note under it and posted the real version

[Xtrema]

Pay first policy for a convenience store :rofl: How would that work?
When i was a kid i never knew exactly what i wanted when i went and the fun was walking around grabbing whatever looked good, my kids now are the same way lol We'll go up and down the aisles a couple times

Like gas?

People not behaving is why we can't have nice things.

[Rocket1k78]

^^^How would that work though? Gas is simple because you have 4 items and its self serve, theres got to be thousands if not more of different items in a 7/11.

Sorry for the jack 89coupe

[killramos]

Just turn 7/11 into a giant vending machine. Problem solved.

[Homerrca]

Just turn 7/11 into a giant vending machine. Problem solved.

But then they just steal the vending machines.

[killramos]

I think you vastly underestimate my definition of Giant.

[jwslam]

Pay first policy for a convenience store :rofl: How would that work?
Be Japanese. 100% vending machines :clap::clap:
One person watching from cam would be enough to catch someone "stealing a vending machine"...

[Rocket1k78]

^^The fucked up part is thats probably the country with the least amount of theft worldwide. They probably went vending for convenience where as here we'd be doing so for security. No way in hell you could do that with a 7/11 though unless you do a giant one like killramos has envisioned:rofl:

[jwslam]

^^The fucked up part is thats probably the country with the least amount of theft worldwide. They probably went vending for convenience where as here we'd be doing so for security. No way in hell you could do that with a 7/11 though unless you do a giant one like killramos has envisioned:rofl:
Sounds like a good use for New Horizon Mall ;)

[AndyL]

Just turn 7/11 into a giant vending machine. Problem solved.

There's a reason certain alberta liquor vendors in certain geographic locations are starting to look like a LCBO. Menu, Till, Conveyor belt... Order, pay, liquor appears at cashier.

[J-D]

There's a reason certain alberta liquor vendors in certain geographic locations are starting to look like a LCBO. Menu, Till, Conveyor belt... Order, pay, liquor appears at cashier.

Where is this??? I've never seen anything remotely like that, lol.

[AndyL]

Where is this??? I've never seen anything remotely like that, lol.

Its near a place called eden valley.

There was a rant about it on a local fb group that disappeared pretty quick

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Its near a place called eden valley.

There was a rant about it on a local fb group that disappeared pretty quick

Isn’t Eden Valley mostly a First Nations area/community as well?

[speedog]

Pho costs what, ten bucks? Let's say ten bucks, that would work out to 1,000 pho or 33 dine and dashes a day. Just doesn't seem realistic.

[revelations]

Any one of these frequently hit places just needs to close the doors and become a stand/kiosk.

Still profits to be made.

[AndyL]

Isn’t Eden Valley mostly a First Nations area/community as well?

From what I saw of the short lived posts, the owner followed what had been working for some other very small town liquor stores where the grab and run had been becoming popular.

[kobe tai]

I'm down for a grab and dash at Planet Organic. Anyone in?

[jwslam]

I'm down for a grab and dash at Planet Organic. Anyone in?
You playing robin hood?

[Rocket1k78]

Pho costs what, ten bucks? Let's say ten bucks, that would work out to 1,000 pho or 33 dine and dashes a day. Just doesn't seem realistic.

Im such a moron lol I just re read my initial post about the 7/11 shutting down and it totally sounds like i was saying the pho place was losing out on $10k a month. What i meant was the 7/11 was losing out on $10k a month, i talked to the owners son at the pho place and hes the one that told me 7/11 closed because they were losing $10k a month. My bad. 33 dine and dashes a day would be fuckin crazy lol