Racism ??? Naww ... whatever gave you THAT idea ?

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:53 PM

Umm, Wulf ?

You DO know RCP is a false front propaganda arm of the GOP initially founded using the contact info of a guy who had been dead for several years in order to obfuscate their origins, and then proceeded to bribe their way into becoming an editorial contributor with funding from the GOP coffers structured to avoid IRS disclosure...

Or, likely, you didn't - but the name itself gives it away since it's parsed in the same-old Fox/GOP doublespeak.

They're as abysmally credible as Jeffie Gannons Talon News Service.

As for Walmart dumping the thief chaser, that's a matter of policy and liability - they took great risks over a relatively minor offense which could have resulted in huge liability and injury claims against the store in our litigious legal system, over a mere product of less than $100 in value.

That time chasing would have been better spent on the phone to police (useless that they often are) with a full description of the suspect (recorded for posterity and eventual prosecution), followed by review of any video and posting his ugly mug in the employee breakroom with a notice that he was no longer welcome in the store and to call police if sighted nearby.

As a security specialist, this is kinda my biz, you see - there's a certain level of risk/effect assessment involved in these kind of things, and that was a bad call, motivated by a kind heart.

They MEANT well, but did the wrong thing - something you have a lot of experience with yourself, ehe ?

Those goons I shut down tryin to rob one of the units here - I didn't chase em, hell, I even looked one of em right in the eye (and he PAID for that later) and stepped aside, despite that he was carryin someone else's TV.

I wanted the TV back, you see, and if I tackled him, he'd have dropped it - even if we did not catch em, I coulda got it back via my contacts with everywhere around here they might try to pawn it.

Didn't chase em neither, not only cause I can't run, cause I was busy writing down plate number and descriptions while on the horn to 911 dispatch giving vector, bearing and descriptions to the local PD - who DID manage to catch them cause there's only two ways out of this area by vehicle, and both are far off enough that hitting this place is downright STUPID.

We had em in custody and the stuff *on the way* back before the resident even got home from work, let the damn cops do the dirty job of running them down and securing them, that's what they pay em for and imma too damn old and lazy to do it.

Owner of the car couldn't weasel out in court cause of the plate number.
The other loader couldn't weasel out cause he had the residents class ring in his pocket when taken into custody.
And the last, who thought he MIGHT get off in the clear - well, he let me get a right good look at his face, did he not ?

They're in slam even now, having plead to it and been tossed where they belong, WITHOUT me chasin nor layin hand to em.

Woulda been easy as that had not the residents cat gotten out - spent the next two shifts tracking the little munger and couldn't get down there to collect her, so we lured her back out when it stopped rainin with a bowl of grub and her favorite toys on the porch.

I won't engage unless there's obvious, imminent danger to people - in the case in your article there was no such thing, the perp only deployed a weapon once they DID engage, and it was a bloody near thing no one got hurt - and over what, a pack of golf balls ?

I will say that with proper training though, Rutner has potential, a yard of guts and a good heart, and training can cover the rest - since Walmart won't re-hire, I've made that suggestion to local security companies in the area cause sixty five is not at all too old for a night watchman, and yanno - it pays better, too.

So much as I otherwise hate em, I cannot ascribe blame to Walmart there, it was posted policy and for fair enough reasons, and Rutner did knowingly violate it.

You got the same issues, Wulfie, you gotta good heart, you WANT to fix things, make things

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NIKI2

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:54 PM

Ooo, ooo, ooo, I missed that part:

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I will likely never again respond to you in any way.

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