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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

Nice call-back.

[SJW]

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Nice call-back.

We're gonna need a reference thread to this.

[Disoblige]

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We're gonna need a reference thread to this.

Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361...ial-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

[Xtrema]

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Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361...ial-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

TIL 89Coupe's daughter is now Vegas legal.

[FraserB]

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Ta-daa!

https://forums.beyond.ca/threads/361...ial-snowflakes

It's called smart parenting.

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

[adam c]

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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?