Excitement at WalMart!

[animal mother]

I don't post often on here, usually just a lurker but thought I'd share my experience from today. 

*sorry so long, cliff notes at bottom*

Today was my day off from work. The weather was perfect so I took my 1100 V-Star out for about 100 miles. They just opened up a WalMart SuperCenter about a week ago a mile from my house. On my way home from my ride I figured I'd stop in and check out the new store.

I did a lap around the interior and was heading towards the exit when I hear a bunch of commotion coming from the exit that I'm heading toward. A female employee stops me and asks if I'm a police officer, I told her no. She said "someone better call the police because someone just robbed us!".

When I get within eyesight of the exit I notice a shirt and pair of sunglasses laying on the floor and about 4 guys in blue shirts chasing a white male with no shirt on across the parking lot. The guy with no shirt on had quite a lead, about 50 yards, on the blue shirt employees. At this point I didn't know if the guy with no shirt on was a security guard who was chasing the thief or if he was the thief!

I had parked my bike at the first spot closest to that exit so I jumped on my cycle and headed toward the shirtless guy. At this point I had no intention of laying hands on him, I just wanted to see if he was the theif and if he was maybe I could somehow slow him down or follow him with my motorcycle until the employees caught up.

By the time I caught up with the guy he had slowed down to a slow jog. I noticed that he didn't have anything in his hands or tucked in his pants, weapons or merchandise. Not sure of what to say I came out with "Hey, are you the guy that just robbed the store?" He said it wasn't him it was his friend and that he didn't know why they were chasing him.

He was pretty incoherent and babbled something about his girlfriend living nearby. Then the numbnut say "Hey man, get me out of here!" and proceeds to throw his left leg over my bike and grabbed my left shoulder with his left hand. My first response was to bring my right elbow back as hard as I could. I caught him right in the face.

He fell backward off the bike and landed on his back in the driveway. As soon as that happened a small red car pulled up next to us and said to the the guy on the ground to hurry and get in. The guy with the sore face got up and jumped in the car and the took off like a bat out of hell.
I got the license number and gave it to the emplyees.


CLIFF NOTES:
Dude robs WalMart, runs across parking lot tries to get on the back of my cycle with me on it, he gets elbowed in the face. He jumps in friends car and takes off. I got license number.

[ajaxgs]

fun who said going to wally world was borring

[cafeboy]

WOW that's a story to tell. glad you are all right.

[makenzie71]

the problem is that they got away.  If they didn't catch the guy leaving the propperty with the stolen merchendice they can no press charges without coherent confession from the thief.  Since they apparently picked this guy up after you cocked him, they got away...doesn't matter what information you gave to the employees.  You should have went to the police.

[animal mother]

the problem is that they got away.  If they didn't catch the guy leaving the propperty with the stolen merchendice they can no press charges without coherent confession from the thief.  Since they apparently picked this guy up after you cocked him, they got away...doesn't matter what information you gave to the employees.  You should have went to the police.

Right after I talked to the employees I went straight home.  About 15 minutes later I decided to go back and talk to the police.  There were two state cruisers in front of the building and I gave them all the information that I had.  I never saw the guy steal anything or do anything illegal, that is why originally I wasn't even going to touch him.
  When I talked to the employees right after hitting the guy, they were on the phone with the police already and gave them the license number right away.
  Odds are they might never catch the guy but at least I didn't just stand around and do nothing.

[annguyen1981]

You should get rid of the cliff notes version.


I liked the longer version.


I'm glad the ass didn't take you down when he "fell" off the bike.

[animal mother]

You should get rid of the cliff notes version.


I liked the longer version.


I'm glad the ass didn't take you down when he "fell" off the bike.

It was weird that he would even try to sit on the back of my bike though because when I ride without the wife I take off the rear pillion seat because I think the bike looks better without it.  The jerkoff was trying to sit on the fender!  I though at first that he might have broken off my rear signal lights because they stick out pretty far but he only bent my license plate bracket about 1/4 inch and it bent back without a problem.  I think the reason the light didn't break off was because I hit him very, very hard at an upright angle and almost threw him off the bike with his face.  He ended up landing totally flat on his back with his feet about a foot behind my bike, his face was pretty wrecked. 

[natedawg120]

This actually sounds familiar.  One time when i was walking out of walmart a guy with a bag was trying to steal my Firebird.  He had broken the window and was attempting to climb in.  Lucky for me the police had already arrived and pulled him out and were standing on him.  The police gave me the PR number and i called my insurance commpany and the thief repaired my car

[LimaXray]

Very Nice!

Next time, you should run him down Mad Max style

[porsche4786]

nice job with the ol elbow to face! 

[brett]

He was stealing from Walmart? You shouldn't have punched him in the face, you should have patted him on the back!

And yes, I'm half serious. Stealing is bad, but Walmart is evil.

[pandy]

Well done, animal mother! It's nice to see folks get involved (and not get hurt while doing so!)! 

[makenzie71]

He was stealing from Walmart? You shouldn't have punched him in the face, you should have patted him on the back!

And yes, I'm half serious. Stealing is bad, but Walmart is evil.

I also promote theft from Wal-Mart...though I've hung up my own thieving gloves for few years now, I'm always more than  happy to hear of someone who got something out of the store.  However, in the situation, I would have stopped the guy.  It's an ethical thing:

There is a such thing as "honor among thieves".  That doesn't mean we all like or help or respect one another...it means that there's a common set of rules that we abide by.  Failing to adhere to these rules means "thieves" in general don't like you.  The biggest things on that list of rules is:

1. Targets have to be better off than whoever your actions are benefitting, or better off than you, which ever is greater.
2. The direct consequences of your actions can only effect those immediately involved in said actions.
3. If you're unable to get away from Wal-Mart unobserved, you're either getting careless, or do not belong in the "field"...the latter resulting in a need to be run down by a motorcycle in the parking lot.

I had a problem with that second one and retired from the game.

[porsche4786]

Why exactly is walmart evil...?

[annguyen1981]

Why exactly is walmart evil...?

... because we said so.

[makenzie71]

Wal-Mart isn't really evil.  Wal-Marts are actually blessings to any community they pop up in.  This is usually overlooked because the appearance of a Wal-Mart in any community essentially destroys small, local businesses, because they simply can not be competed with.  Why is Wal-Mart good, though?  Several reasons...the two biggest reasons are:

1st.  The average supercenter employs over 400 people.  This does not include the number of people Wal-Mart uses outside the company, like security agencies, carpenters, maintenance specialists, etc.

I can't really remember that second reason, though.

[brett]

Wal-Mart isn't really evil.  Wal-Marts are actually blessings to any community they pop up in.  This is usually overlooked because the appearance of a Wal-Mart in any community essentially destroys small, local businesses, because they simply can not be competed with.  Why is Wal-Mart good, though?  Several reasons...the two biggest reasons are:

1st.  The average supercenter employs over 400 people.  This does not include the number of people Wal-Mart uses outside the company, like security agencies, carpenters, maintenance specialists, etc.

I can't really remember that second reason, though.

It employs over 400 people... at super low wage rates. Basically, Walmart uses its size and market position to squeeze every last penny they can out of workers and suppliers. Workers can't go anywhere else because Walmart put all the local shops out of business, and ditto for suppliers selling somewhere else.

[makenzie71]

over 400 people at "super low rates".  You're looking at the "small" picture.

The store I worked at employed 453 people at the time I quit.  Roughly 300 employees were on site 24 hours a day.  The average pay at that store was $7.8923 per hour.  That means that during the low-times, the store was putting $2,367.69 EVERY HOUR.  That's $20,754,727.2374 put into the community every year.  This isn't too far from the norm.  That means that cities like Amarillo, Texas, which has four supercenters, the city is recieving almost $85 mil a year.

"Small business" can't do that for a community.

[Budrick320]

Very good point Makenzie. I was listening to NPR the other day and they were talking about the impact on the community of these auto plants shutting down. They said not only is the community out say 50k for the salary of that person but it is more like 250K because they purchase goods from other businesses and they purchase goods from others and so on. The impact is actually more than we know.

[Mandres]

That's not a realistic argument.  They aren't in business to lose money, every dollar that is paid out to employees was taken in from the same community, with a healthy profit margin.  Meanwhile, the small businesses that might actually offer decent service, a fair wage to their employees, and a sense of local pride and culture are dying off.  The only good thing to come out of it is the property tax revenues that the local govt. collects which may or may not be put to worthwhile means.  Make no mistake, Wal-Mart is a predatory organization and our country would be better off without it.