If you fancy a bit of shoplifting...

[Dave Davenport]

.......come down to our local Sainburys, they've got a new security guard who must be at least 30 stone. You could probably leg it with a full trolly and still out run him, or just toss out some cakes as you went to keep him busy whilst you made your getaway.

 

[Maz]

Congrats on the new job, Dave!

 

[biggs682]

we are on our way to do our weekly shop then please forward his working times etc etc and of course the directions to the store

 

[downfader]

You've just reminded me of two security lads I knew of.

One was in charge of a local convenience store for a week, went to tackle a shop lifter there and got headbutted. 2 black eyes, broken nose and quite within the month.

The second was chasing some local oik out of the local hospital and fell down with a heart attack after running 50 feet. Nearly died. Retired on disability shortly after.



Its not a nice job.

 

[guitarpete247]

A mate of mine got job as a security guard doing nights at a chicken factory. He loved the job, on his own at night reading and wandering round every couple of hours. Eventually some of the local hard yobbos found out he was on his own. They started to threaten him. He ended up opening the gates late one night for them to drive in and remove a load of stock. Of course the finger pointed at my mate. He daren't give names of those that did the job and went down for a couple of years. They got away with it as he still daren't say who they are and he struggles to get work as he can't be trusted.
Not a job I would fancy.

 

[Maz]

A mate of mine got job as a security guard doing nights at a chicken factory. He loved the job, on his own at night reading and wandering round every couple of hours. Eventually some of the local hard yobbos found out he was on his own. They started to threaten him. He ended up opening the gates late one night for them to drive in and remove a load of stock. Of course the finger pointed at my mate. He daren't give names of those that did the job and went down for a couple of years. They got away with it as he still daren't say who they are and he struggles to get work as he can't be trusted.
Not a job I would fancy.

I suspect fowl play.

 

[taxing]

The other day I saw a shoplifter running towards me and a security guard running after him while I was pushing my bike towards Tescos. I thought for a split second that this was my one chance in life to stop a shoplifter, I could just put my bike in his path and I would be doing a public service. Then I rethought things. My bike in the path of some scrote? I think not. He got away.

 

[wafflycat]

My dad had a job as a security guard many, many years ago. He too was on his own during the night. He too, got noticed by sme local scrotes and he got mugged: badly. He suffered terrible headaches and bad temper for years afterwards. Not surprised he suffered from dementia at the end. Not a good job to have.

 

[Maz]

My dad had a job as a security guard many, many years ago. He too was on his own during the night. He too, got noticed by sme local scrotes and he got mugged: badly. He suffered terrible headaches and bad temper for years afterwards. Not surprised he suffered from dementia at the end. Not a good job to have.

I'm sorry to hear that, wc.

 

[Night Train]

I saw a chap in Wicks tucking tools into his coat. He saw me watching him but it didn't bother him so I went off to mentioned it to the security guard.
The guard said he couldn't do anything about it as he didn't see it himself (too busy chatting to the checkout). We both stood there and watched as the chap walked out with his arms wrapped about his coat to stop the tools falling out.

I did, a long time ago, give chase to a young lad who was being chased by a security guard.
I caught the lad and pinned his face down into the roots of a tree. The guard caught up and called the Police. The lad was apparently nicking radios out of cars in a car park.

Thinking about it, it must have been a long time ago (I feel old) as the Police weren't at all concerned about the force I was using to subdue the lad and he wasn't offered the option of pressing charges against me.

 

[tyred]

I read in the local paper a while back about a 19 yo girl being charged with shoplifting in Poundland. I couldn't figure it out. Surely if you were going to shoplift and risk being caught and taken to court, you would try and steal something worthwhile rather than a load of crap from Poundland  

 

[taxing]

I used to work in Primark and we had loads of shoplifters. There was one who constantly came in and took whole rails of clothing, and was never caught. Why would you need a whole rail of identical jumpers in lots of different sizes?! If you were doing it for resale surely you'd steal from somewhere where the clothes were worth more than £5 each.

The security guards in Primark (the one I worked in anyway) are shoot, they spent all their time taking the piss out of me for looking like Kelly Osbourne (I don't) and no time investigating the shoplifter that a customer saw once and reported to me.

In fact, another useless security guard story, three security guards gave me a bollocking for pushing my bike through a shopping centre the other day. The shopping centre is a thoroughfare, I checked before I did it for signs on the doors (there was one with a bike with a red circle round it, which I assumed meant no cycling but you can push your bike, as that's what it means according to the Highway Code, and there was another of a skateboard with a red circle around it, which I assumed meant that you can't skate but can carry your skateboard). Apparently my crime necessitated three twatty security guards marching up to me and being rude. They implied that something horrible will befall me next time I do it, so I'm going to take my folder in and see what they make of that.

 

[wafflycat]

I'm sorry to hear that, wc.

Ta. On the plus side, it didn't stop him from being the best Dad anyone could want, as he loved me unconditionally. He was a truly wonderful Dad.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I helped stop a bike thief at a Sainsbury's near us last year.

Walking back to car with Wife and kids whan a teen went haring past on a bright orange mtb type bike, across the car park and over the plants onto the road out of the carpark. Then a security guard came running past shouting into his walkie talkie... then I saw another guard further down the road running toward the lad on the bike who spun it round and headed back towards us. He went straight past the first guard and began to head up a one way entrance to the superstore against the traffic - I bided my time and stepped across the plant border to intercept him. He saw me and bunnyhopped over the kerb to get past me but face planted when his wheels hit the dirt in the flowerbeds. He got up and started running between the cars in the car park, almost wiping out my eldest who was getting into our car. The first security guard caught him and grabbed him then led him back to the store.

And what did I get for my troubles? Not a thank you or anything, but some nearby local imbeciles shouting out at me for being a "have a go hero" and giving me the finger as I'd help nail the kid. Didn't look like they knew the bike thief but just hated the thought of "one of their kind" (i.e. lowlife scrotes) being nabbed.

 

[jeltz]

Admittedly its 20+ years ago that I last worked in a shop but when I did the uniformed presence wasn't there to catch they were just a visual deterrent.

There were store detectives in plain clothes in most of the bigger shops who were in contact with each other and who did a ring round when known shop lifter or gang arrived in the shopping centre, interestingly gangs would travel buy mini bus all over the country and target different shopping centres I don't know if it still happens but it was quite a problem at the time.