I chased a shoplifter today

[MBennettp]

Christmas season in a retail store can be fun and a challenge. The season brings out the best and the worst in people. Thankfully there are way more good people than bad ones.

Today I was working behind the register counter helping the cashiers when a couple walking out the door set off the alarm. I went after them figuring it was something that a cashier had missed a security tag on. Well, it wasn't, it was a couple that had stolen a boom box and they were running across the parking lot. Well that made me mad so I took out after them. The man got in a car and immediately backed clear across the parking lot at high speed so I couldn't get his tag number but I took off after the female who he had left. I chased her across our lot, a street, a bank parking lot, and down the street 1/2 block before she finally decided I wasn't stopping so she did.

Long story shortened, we couldn't do anything to her because she wasn't the one that stole it but she is down as a witness. Her friend got away but she was mad as heck at him for leaving her to face the police and walk home.

I went back to the store when the police got there so I don't know everything that she told them but she did give them his name and address and told them what he stole.

I am amazed that at my age (48) and a smoker that I could even run that far much less catch a woman less than 1/2 my age! I guess that tells you what you can do when you are really mad. What made it even better was that my assistant (male and a lot younger) was right behind me when I went out the door and he didn't catch up until we were on the way back. He was also just about to keel over from the run.

Mary

 

[Miniv]

Amazing what adrenalin can do to us "old" gals!

Sounds like something I'd see in a movie!

MA

 

[Lisa-Ruff N Tuff Minis]

LOL i know it might not have been the smartest thing for you to do but I have done it myself. Somone was stealing stuff from my house outside (My husbands tools and supplies) and came back a second time I was so outraged that I ran after him caught him ripped it out of his hand , wrestled down the driveway where his girlfriend was waiting in the car.. she got out took one look at me and got back in, mind you I am a big ol housewife with horsey stained clothes and it was during foaling season (need i say more)

Got to the street and realized ok now what do i do I cant hold him here forever.. so got his plate and let him go AFTER taking the stuff back.. he was arrested a week or so later

My husband wasnt so pleased with me but sometimes a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do

 

[Farmhand]

 

[bluerogue]

It must have been one of those days... I went out to clean stalls where I board my boys, and one of the facilities owners had just got back from chasing down a theif that she caught burgluring the next door neighbors garage. The kid had stolen a bunch of stuff from several homes in the immediate area, and had apparently taken stuff from a whole bunch off houses down the street aways. She had help from one of the other neighbors, and other people who lived in houses they passed going after the guy came out and helped too. The kid had gotten out of jail last week for stealing, and he's back in now. He didn't get anything at the boarding facility, and we credit the watch dog (big, and all bark! But no bite). He did hurt one of Theresa's dogs (she breeds registered show type Newfoundlands), when he kicked it in the face the last time he stole stuff from her place. Her dogs are kept in kennels, and are not loose. I've NEVER seen one of her dogs loose. I don't know how he got this dog, just that he kicked it in the head, and it's jaw is now really swollen on one side. We're hoping he didn't break his jaw. But Bear (our watch dog) is big, and very intimidating if you don't know him. And there's people going in and out all the time checking on the horses, so there's no set routine there. We just couldn't believe this guy was trying to steal stuff in broad daylight with people home! I'm glad he didn't seem interested in any horses, cuz mine will go home with anyone who will give them food

 

[runamuk]

Well I think you get a gold star AND extra holiday treats for that effort

good job ...oh and you can skip aerobics for a week.......isn't karma grand

 

[rabbitsfizz]

Mary you could have been killed!!! What if the idiot in the car had run you down, or had a gun???

It's just stuff at the end of the day, not worth getting killed for.

There was a man and his wife stabbed to death in front of their daughters, here in London, just the other day. For a couple of watches.

Just stuff. Let them have it.

 

[Robin1]

PLEASE be careful chasing people that have stolen something. There was a nice store manager here in town that chased a couple, that had stolen a tv, out into the parking lot. They ran him down with the car and he was killed. It just isn't worth it.

Robin

 

[MBennettp]

Yeah I know it was stupid and the regional manager saw me chasing her and told me I wasn't supposed to chase them like that but I was so mad that I didn't think.

I think that it was a great stress reliever though! I am really sore today but it was worth it.

Mary

 

[Cathy_H]

Glad you didn't get hurt..

.. I'm with you - Won't say I hate them, (whats the closest word to that) but I sure would like to smack them & make them do a years worth of community service................. Once heard a miniature horse owner say " If they didn't want me to take it then they shouldn't have left it where I could get it"

... Sad!

 

[REO]

GO MARY! GO MARY!

You were awesome!!

Bad guys run, Mary takes off!

Can't out run Mary!

You were amazing! I'm just SO glad you were not hurt! I know you stand up for what's right, but please don't get hurt. You know I love you, right?

 

[keeperofthehorses]

Way to go!!!

Now, you can cross 'Superhero' off your to-do list and never do that again, right?