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Well there is your problemA slap on the wrist
Well there is your problemA slap on the wrist
This wasn’t what this was about. If you’re starving wouldn’t you steal food. Meatball doesn't look she missed to many meals.I mean. An old iphone is not that expensive and access to a phone is a necessity in this day and age considering you cant even apply to a job without one.
I meant more like the rising costs of groceries and other essentials tho but I get it, you haven't thought about it all that much.
Well, not the iphone, unless your street buyer is sucker enough to pay top dollar for a brand-new pretty glass brick.You can buy a lot of food with a stolen i phone….. or dr….s
Yea, not true…Well, not the iphone, unless your street buyer is sucker enough to pay top dollar for a brand-new pretty glass brick.
Even if you steal an activated iphone from a user, you're not likely to get even a whole day's use out of it before the owner gets online and remotely bricks it.
Now, shoes and Lulus you can make a mint on via eBay. No electronics and no serial number equals merch you cannot prove is stolen.
One of the 50+ arrested in the Philadelphia lootings was out on bail for a previous involuntary manslaughter charge. And the influencer who live-streamed the events and possibly organized/instigated them was released on bail. She posted her mugshot on her social media and is reveling in her newfound “fame.”It will be interesting to see what happens to those accused here….
And her cash app so her “supporters” could send her money.One of the 50+ arrested in the Philadelphia lootings was out on bail for a previous involuntary manslaughter charge. And the influencer who live-streamed the events and possibly organized/instigated them was released on bail. She posted her mugshot on her social media and is reveling in her newfound “fame.”
So I doubt most will get more than a gentle tap on the wrist.
That only works if you can get a critical mass of voters to pay attention to down ballot races. Look at the DAs in the cities which are losing Targets, what were their priorities in their last campaign? I bet you it was not getting tough on shoplifting and seeking actual sentences for felons.You all realize prosecutors, well there boss the DA or AG are elected,
If you don’t like the job they are doing you have every right to tell them….
If they are not prosecuting thefts, tell them you’re not happy with their job performance ….
That is not what I meant and you know it. It's ok tho, not everyone can or wants to really think about why there are more thefts happening. Same as why there are so many more homeless folks out in the streets recently. It's easier to think these are just bad lazy ppl.So they swarmed the Apple store to steal old phones?
Critical mass start with one….That only works if you can get a critical mass of voters to pay attention to down ballot races. Look at the DAs in the cities which are losing Targets, what were their priorities in their last campaign? I bet you it was not getting tough on shoplifting and seeking actual sentences for felons.
In Target's home market of Minneapolis, they and many of their top employees donated to the campaign of the current DA that refuses to charge or prosecute most crimes, those that are charged are given deals for their 10th, 15th or even 20th felony conviction that involves no prison time. Not a day goes by I don't see something on Twitter about police having to be called to Target's flagship store on Nicollet Mall. It's been a known issue for 30 years in Hennepin County that the prosecutors office and judiciary is very soft on crime, unless you're white and affluent.
You known stolen stuff can be sold right? For money that can buy food and baby food and gas and train passes and clothes.This wasn’t what this was about. If you’re starving wouldn’t you steal food. Meatball doesn't look she missed to many meals.
i have not been in a target in ages. i'm curious-have they jumped on the private security bandwagon like our region's walmarts have? not sure if it's common at all walmarts but all the ones around here have a MASSIVE private security presence-vehicles driving round the parking lot, standing at exterior entrances/exits, several up by the registers. VERY uniformed/apparant.
It was in response to the charges being dropped against a police officer. It wasn't about food. Do your research.You known stolen stuff can be sold right? For money that can buy food and baby food and gas and train passes and clothes.
They are bad people.That is not what I meant and you know it. It's ok tho, not everyone can or wants to really think about why there are more thefts happening. Same as why there are so many more homeless folks out in the streets recently. It's easier to think these are just bad lazy ppl.
No need to continue to start fights. Don't be so angry.That is not what I meant and you know it. It's ok tho, not everyone can or wants to really think about why there are more thefts happening. Same as why there are so many more homeless folks out in the streets recently. It's easier to think these are just bad lazy ppl.
You got me, and I’m bored, explain why their are some many more thieves and homeless peopleThat is not what I meant and you know it. It's ok tho, not everyone can or wants to really think about why there are more thefts happening. Same as why there are so many more homeless folks out in the streets recently. It's easier to think these are just bad lazy ppl.
not surprising,
i Would say the city officials may have done the residents a dis service
Sad you feel that way but in my experience everyone everywhere is exactly the same but that doesn't get people fired up so the PR firms that run the News create stories about who to hate and why... this makes me sad too.Interesting, is about all I would be allowed to post here….
But my feeling run along the lines of “try that in a small town” not quite the the point of the line from judge Dreed about expanding excursions for lessor crimes ….
And no I have never lived in a city nor would I ever want to….. and the 80s were over before I was a teen
However, I remember having a paper route to earn money before I was ten….
Getting my first real job at 13…
Working for every single thing I ever got in this world…
Raising a family and putting myself through college, at the same time, making sure my kids got to go to Disney once or twice a year…
But what I can tell you is I have a skill set that prepared me well for most things that life throws at me…..
And I had a good ride all the way…. On my own dime…
So I guess I can’t relate!
Sorry
I have two Walmarts between my houses … sorry I can’t relateAs a resident I get your sentiment. Whenever I'm in NJ where there are Walmarts, I'm loading up the trunk of the car with stuff from Walmart. (I also do a lot of my pantry shopping at Walmart online as the prices are sooo much cheaper than the supermarkets here.)
Yet, as someone who's watched local mom & pop businesses which are into their 3rd generation of ownership go under as they can no longer afford the super-inflated monthly leases here, and that's without Walmart here now, I agree with our city officials keeping the mega-giant corporation out. The reason Walmart can afford to give us cheap prices IS because they are a mega-giant and can afford the loss leaders for some items. Little mom & pop shops can't hope to compete and make a profit at the same time.
We had the hardest time during the worst of the pandemic keeping out neighborhood mom & pop shops in business during the never ending closures. And we had one of the most restrictive and longest Covid protocols in the nation, as THIS is where the pandemic began. (WA state and the west coast had the first cases in the U.S., and were somewhat able to keep it contained at first. But the spread unfortunately started here due to the density of the population mingling with each other on the subways & such.I'm about to start wearing masks again when I'm in the subways.)