OT I was just almost beaten up and arrested at Walmart

This just happened barely an hour ago.

So my stepdaughter called because her husband was away from home asking if we could either watch her cute as heck newborn daughter or go to the store for her and pick up some things. I needed to pick up some synthetic oil for the car so Mrs Poker Dog and I said we would go to the store for her and the closest store to her was the Walmart on 82nd ave. I can't remember the last time I was in a Walmart but the 82nd ave one is always a bit of a trip.

We had just about finished our shopping and were in the soda isle looking for root beer when I guy comes around the corner and right up to me saying that there is a man and woman fighting in the meat department. Now I was wearing a bright blue Adidas sweatshirt so the only thing I can figure is that the guy saw blue and assumed I was a Walmart employee. I leave Mrs Poker Dog and go around the corner to the meat department to see what was going on.

Sure enough this, I would guess mid 50s man and woman are fighting in the store, the man is hitting hard with his fist and she is hitting him back, punch.. punch... yell... yell... she steps away from him and he follows her yelling, she yells back and he punches her. There were about 4 or 5 other couples/groups of people watching this. All of us looking at the couple fighting and each other not sure what to do. What made me not play the hero is the guy punching the woman had his buddy with him. The buddy is 6'5, 200+ lbs long haired biker looking MF'er and he's just standing there letting his friend friend hit the woman while glaring at everyone as we all stand there watching this. This is a bad situation, you try to play hero in a domestic violence situation and it could end up with of three of these losers trying to beat you up.

So anyway I'm scanning all around looking for a Walmart employee, security, anything to save this woman but I decide I ain't getting involved unless it really gets ugly. I can't see anyone from Walmart and the man starts hitting the woman again, so I do the brave thing I push past those large rubber swinging doors that lead back into the inner bowels of the meat department looking for an employee. "Hello? Hello? Is anyone here?" No one is in the meat department but that's when I see a store phone on the wall so I run over to it and push the button marked customer service. Busy. Push it again, busy. I hear more yelling, realize that Mrs Poker Dog is out there so I hang up and head back out to the store.

Now they had pushed, screamed and shoved their way to the bakery department. It's ugly. The woman is trying get out of the store and away from the guy and his biker buddy. I'm still looking for a Walmart employee. I finally see one behind the bakery counter. I go up to here and ask her to call security. She's been watching all of this go down and she points to the biker looking dude and goes, "that is security!"

What the fuck?!?

About this time the woman finally runs out of the store with the man running after her. Biker dude stops following. I think this is all complete BS so I take my phone out of my pocket and hold it up to take a picture just as biker dude turns around and sees me holding my phone up. He yells, "you can't take my picture!' So I drop my arm down and take a lovely picture of the floor. He comes up to me, "why are you taking my picture? " He was hitting her and you didn't do anything!" He glares at me and yells, "you can't take my picture!" as he walks past me to a group of Walmart employees that had gathered down at the middle of the meat department. I'm like fuck this so I raise my hand up and take a picture of the back of him as he stomps his way to the group of Walmart employees. As soon as I do this one of the employees yell "you can't take our picture!" so I take of all of them. The employee yells again, "you can't take our picture!" I turn around and walk with Mrs Poker Dog to finish our shopping.

We reach the produce department when suddenly we are surrounded by 5 Walmart employees. All yelling with the one guy who was yelling gets right up in my face, I mean there wasn't more than a half inch separating us. He's enraged, fists clenched, yelling at me that I can't take their pictures, says I have to give him my phone and leave the store or I will be arrested. Now this guy is early 20s in a Walmart uniform but no name tag and he's still in my face. Finally a manager comes up and she wants to know why I'm taking pictures of employees. As soon as I start to tell her about the fight she recoils back like she was shot and wipes her face like I spit in it. Which I totally didn't. But angry kid steps up like he's going to swing.

My mind is racing but I ain't no dummy, I know what's up, their going to claim I assaulted them and use that as a reason to kick my ass. This is getting strange really fast. Mrs Poker Dog is standing there next to me and immediately said, "he didn't spit on you!" That's when I noticed a couple behind the manager who was also there when the man and woman were fighting, he speaks up, telling there manager that I didn't spit on her. I mean it was such an obvious fake reaction and everyone spontaneously saw through it. The manager immediately said, " I didn't say he did!"

The manager tells the employee still in my face to leave, he refuses, "he can't take pictures of us." She finally pushes him away and tells him to leave. He steps back but doesn't leave. Manager, "you can take pictures inside of the store." I laugh. "Why are you taking pictures?" "Because your employee was just standing there watching a manbeat the hell out of a woman." "He's undercover, you can't take his picture." "I can take his picture if I want." "You need to delete them, failure to do so will result in charges." Man behind manager, "That was wrong, your employee didn't do anything." Manager to me, "what did you do? You call the police?" Me, "I looked for an employee and when I didn't see one I tried to call customer service."

Suddenly anger Walmart employee charges me, getting back in my face. She pushes him away and tells him to leave.

Then this strange conversation occurs between me and the manager, If I wouldn't do anything why should they, and if I was afraid to call the police why would I take their picture? I calmly explained over and over that I did try to do something, I looked for an employee and when I didn't see one I tried to use a store phone to call security. That's when I caught something out of the corner of my eye, I whip around and enraged Walmart employee is coming up behind me to tackle or grab me. "What the hell?!" I step back, and he is back up in my face screaming at me that I can't take their picture. Manager again as to physically push him away from me.

Manager starts back up again with me being afraid to call the police, the implication is clear, that I have warrants or for some reason I am wanted by the police, lol. She tells me that I have to either give up my phone or delete the pictures from it. I laugh and tell her to call the police. That's when enraged Walmart employee charges into the middle of this again. He's yelling, screaming at me about these damn pictures and this time he looks like he's ready to hit me. Manager is trying to push him back and I look at him like he's nuts, he's yelling at me to follow him out to the parking lot. Me, "What, you want to hit me? You're going to beat me up?" Him, "Let's go! Let's go!" Store manager finally pushes him back.

She tells me that they will file charges if I release the pictures. The rest of the employees surrounding us all mouth off, warning us not to take anymore pictures. Mrs Poker Dog at this point has had enough and tells them them all to back off. Oops that's when I notice that she's been watching this punk continually threaten me and she's had enough of this BS. I grab her,the cart and walk off to a register to checkout and pay.

We wait and that's when I notice that the manager and 3 employees are standing directly behind us in line and talking in hushed tones, she's on her walkie talkie thing, I look around, biker buddy and some other scumbag looking dude is at one exit and finally some clearly marked store security is at the other exit.

I quickly grab my phone and upload the pics to the cloud but start laughing when I look at them. They're all shitty pics, you can't tell who anyone is in them. I lock my phone, hand it to Mrs Poker Dog because I know I ain't getting out of that store. We pay and start to walk to the exit with biker dude and his buddy, I look at him not threatening but determined, I'm just as big as he is (6'4, 250lbs) I ain't done a damn thing wrong, and I ain't afraid of him. Mrs Poker Dog asks the dude at the door if he wants to look at our receipt, hahahahaha!

And finally Walmart decides to not make this ridiculous situation worse and lets us leave with our purchases.


tl/dr: See guy beating woman in Walmart, take picture of "undercover" security get detained and threatened with being beat up and arrested.

 

Picture of the Walmart floor right as "undercover" security charged and yelled at me not to take his picture, lol.

 

Shitty picture of the back of Walmart dude after he yelled me that I can't take his picture.

 

pics or it didn't happen.

 

you knob! I said that before you posted the picture and you PURPOSELY POSTED THOSE TO MAKE ME LOOK BAD!

YOU WANNA GO!?!?!? LET'S GO, DOG MAN!

 

Shitty picture of store manager and employees suddenly appearing out of the woodwork yelling at me that I can't take pictures.

 

Better picture of manager and employees yelling at us not to take pictures.

 

Really shitty picture of Mr "Undercover and store manager detaining us in the produce department.

 

Angry dude touched me when he came up behind me and I whipped around. But it wasn't much.

 

What a troublemaker you are.

Sure, you went in there looking to "buy stuff". And everybody in a whorehouse is just there asking for directions to the nearest church.

We know your game, dog.

barfo

 

I know.

What's really funny is that before that all happened I took some pictures of flowers that I wanted to compare to the prices at Lowes or Home Depot for my mom for mother's day. When not being screamed at the phone takes fine pictures.

 

Did you post this to Reddit?

 

I want to but I can't figure out the best sub reddit to use. They're so picky there.