YAFlashMobT: these entitlement mf'ers need to be shot

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SMOGZINN

Lifer
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What if as the store owner, you just quietly walk behind them and lock the door while pulling your shotgun out. Wait for them to get done looting then as they realize you are in front of the door with a large gun and they have no way out, ask them nicely to put everything back while you cock your shotgun for effect.

Then someone pulls a gun and shoots you, and claims it is self defense, and gets off because you were just threatening him with a gun while you did nothing but shop in a store.
In most places you have not comitted a crime until you actually walk out the door of the shop without paying.
 

SP33Demon

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You'd have to prove that they were stealing it and not just picking up items to take to the counter.

It's private property. I can limit how many are in my store at one time, capisce? If they violate that sign on the front door then I can do w/e I have to in order to get them to leave. This includes utilizing an LRAD riot control weapon. You're acting like these fckers are untouchable, there are always ways to get them and get them good. Once they step foot into my store, they abide by my rules. Hell, I could even put a sign up that says they have to pay first before touching anything.
 
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ban, racist comments. I'm thoroughly offended. My whole existance has just been shattered by this revelation that you seem to be surreptitiously claming that black people are the perpetrators here. LET ME REMIND YOU, 12 generations ago their family was in slavery, therefore, you have NO RIGHT to try and dehumanize them like that.

someone, please take care of this loon

Not sure if serious.
 
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The problem with this is as soon as you do something like that you are guaranteed that one of the people you shot was an innocent bystander that happened to come in at the same time. Either that or some overly reactionary store owner is going to blast some basketball team that comes in for some G2 because he is sure that 12+ black teens coming in his store all at the same time is a flash rob.

Oh so now only black people can play basketball? Racist!! LOL
 

SMOGZINN

Lifer
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It's private property. I can limit how many are in my store at one time, capisce? If they violate that sign on the front door then I can do w/e I have to in order to get them to leave. This includes utilizing an LRAD riot control weapon. You're acting like these fckers are untouchable, there are always ways to get them and get them good. Once they step foot into my store, they abide by my rules. Hell, I could even put a sign up that says they have to pay first before touching anything.

No, that is completely untrue. Just because I enter your store I am not giving up all my social and human freedoms to you. You can decide that I am not allowed to pick anything up before I buy something, but the ONLY way you have to enforce that is to refuse to accept my money for it when I try. You can limit your store to having only 3 people inside it at a time, but if 5 people come in the only recourse you are allowed to take is to call the police and have them charged with trespassing, and only after you specifically inform specific individuals to leave. You can not use violence or incarcerating measures to hold enforce your rules, or to harm individuals not following them.
 

AreaCode707

Lifer
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Why didn't they just lock the door with the clerk outside and wait for the police to arrive? Store full of people caught in the act, arrest 'em all.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
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Haven't read the thread yet. If this has been covered, OP still hasn't edited the title and first post...

OP: "Flashmob" isn't always a group of thieves. It's more widely-known as a group of performance artists.

You're talking about a "flash ROB".
 

spidey07

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Haven't read the thread yet. If this has been covered, OP still hasn't edited the title and first post...

OP: "Flashmob" isn't always a group of thieves. It's more widely-known as a group of performance artists.

You're talking about a "flash ROB".

Not any more it isn't as flash mob truly means to show up and mob/rob/assault/maim people with impunity.

They're getting bold.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
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Haven't read the thread yet. If this has been covered, OP still hasn't edited the title and first post...

OP: "Flashmob" isn't always a group of thieves. It's more widely-known as a group of performance artists.

You're talking about a "flash ROB".

the definition has been significantly altered by the media such that everyone knows that a flash mob represents a large group of people who get together for some purpose
 

DCal430

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Haven't read the thread yet. If this has been covered, OP still hasn't edited the title and first post...

OP: "Flashmob" isn't always a group of thieves. It's more widely-known as a group of performance artists.

You're talking about a "flash ROB".

Flash mob also includes group of thieves who gather to steal and cause havok.
 

God Mode

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Time to put all the products behind caged shelves with the clerk behind bulletproof glass. :(
 

spidey07

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Time to put all the products behind caged shelves with the clerk behind bulletproof glass. :(

I know to GTFO when I come across stores/areas that are like that. I flat out leave immediately and watch my six. I tend to avoid them at all costs but have been in them before, always watching the situation and the patrons with a hawk eye.
 

God Mode

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I know to GTFO when I come across stores/areas that are like that. I flat out leave immediately and watch my six. I tend to avoid them at all costs but have been in them before, always watching the situation and the patrons with a hawk eye.

I'm just tired of dealing with people like in the video, pacifists that give every excuse in the book with no solution (oh its because dsjkghsetkjghdsf socioeconomic jghejkgfkj poor blah) and those that cry out racism when a solution is being sought. It is incredibly frustrating.
 

mattpegher

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I'm affraid this kind of behavior is going to seriously affect what stores stay open in these neighborhoods. I remember a few fast food restaurants with bullet proof partitions and turn tables to dispense the food. It is going to get to the point where you enter tell the guy behind the glass what you want and he sends it through after you pay. Like a big vending machine.
 

Ns1

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I'm affraid this kind of behavior is going to seriously affect what stores stay open in these neighborhoods. I remember a few fast food restaurants with bullet proof partitions and turn tables to dispense the food. It is going to get to the point where you enter tell the guy behind the glass what you want and he sends it through after you pay. Like a big vending machine.

I see you're been to the popeye's in south central across from the coliseum.
 

God Mode

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I see you're been to the popeye's in south central across from the coliseum.

There is a Mcdonalds a few miles from me in a predominantly {removed because it hurts feelings} area where they have a worker posted at the door with it locked. When a customer comes up they unlock and then lock and when they leave they unlock and then lock. It's BS but its very obvious why they do it. I don't go there anymore. Last time I saw the bulletproof glass wtih revolving service window and all that were ghetto areas in Brooklyn NY.
 

Anonemous

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I see you're been to the popeye's in south central across from the coliseum.

I remember a few years back the Jack in the Box in LA had bullet proof glass at the counter kinda reminded me of a bank.
 

Ns1

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There is a Mcdonalds a few miles from me in a predominantly {removed because it hurts feelings} area where they have a worker posted at the door with it locked. When a customer comes up they unlock and then lock and when they leave they unlock and then lock. It's BS but its very obvious why they do it. I don't go there anymore. Last time I saw the bulletproof glass wtih revolving service window and all that were ghetto areas in Brooklyn NY.

holy shit, that's a whole new level of ghetto
 

SMOGZINN

Lifer
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You need to differentiate the new trend from the established one.

No, it is still the same thing, this is just the evil version of the same thing. It is kind of like mad science, just art.

These are evil mad performance artists!