Hobbes is my friend and I call it the height of stupidity for calling him 'anal'. Let's reserve that term for Sly, I think we can all agree on that.
Good grief. Do you need some cream for that butt hurt? Haha Perhaps you'd be feeling better if an employee tackled the pisser with their pants down in the potato pen.
Not sure why you feel the need to take it to extremes? Walmart has security. An employee witnessed it. Seems like the girl could have been stopped while casually strolling out the door.
I have not taken it to extremes yet. I told you how retail stores expect their employees to not go after shoplifters physically. Obviously, they dont want to be sued for an employee physically harming people in their store. Walmart security again. That is laughable shit right there. They have cameras. Just report it to the police and take proper steps having her barred from the store.
Yes because you saying tackling the pisser in the potato bin is very rational, and EXACTLY what I meant.
It was you that took it to the extreme. If you thought his post was ridiculous then you should say his post was ridiculous rather than attack him. We have rules against personal attacks for a reason. I think an apology is in order and then you can go back and state how you disagree with his post.
Or...not. The fact you assume I was even talking about him is the best part. I responded to your post, not his. With the whole being anal, I mean
IMO, saying someone is being "anal" is not a personal attack. It's the same as saying someone is being pedantic, or "butt hurt", or any other number of phrases used to describe how someone is responding (ie, how their post sounds). Hobbes is a big boy, he can stand up for himself if he feels he's being attacked. But I don't think he was. Reasonable people can disagree, even about potato piss posts.
I've twice at two different jobs been in a situation that would have probably been better off being handled by the police and got reprimanded for it. First one is when I was fresh out the Army and was washing cars at a dealership on the lot. Corner of 35th & Sandy. Guy started smacking up his girl right there 5 feet in front of me and a co worker. Knocked her down on the sidewalk and started kicking her. I looked up and all the car salesman and customers started to literally run the other direction. I was fresh out of the Military and was still in the National Guard, so lets just say I put my MP skills to use. Took him down and stood on his head til the cops pulled up. They drew down on me thinking I was the suspect, until witnesses told them what had happened. GM of the dealership instead of thanking me, brought me in his office and said he should have fired me. As a know it all early 20s kid, (WE ALL KNOW HOW THEY CAN BE) I was pissed, but now I look back and totally understand. Fast forward 7 years or so, when I went back to college, I worked at Music Millennium. I happened to see a guy sliding a ton of CDs in his coat pockets and went by the door, to make sure he didn't get away. He put up little fight, but the situation was quickly under control and I held him down til the cops showed up. All the hippies that worked there were mad at me. Said that I was just supposed to let him go and not confront him. Manager almost fired me, but quietly thanked me. Week later, while I was not working, somebody held up the register and he fired off a shot into the ceiling that ended up ricocheting into a co workers hand. Maybe had THE HCP been there he could have stopped that from happening as well.
Back when my brother used to work loss prevention, he always made a point about how he was not permitted to detain someone unless he had actually witnessed them commit an offense. For instance, in that Music Millennium story, he would say you would have to wait for the CD thief to leave the premises with the merchandise before you could engage them. As to the assault in front of the car dealership, I absolutely think you did the right thing, and don't think I'll ever understand the "you should have stayed out of it" mindset with regard to witnessing a violent crime.
