Robbery at Asda

OMG just been to Asda.
I was upstairs in the George dept when I heard screaming.
The staff ran to the front of the shop where a Lady had her purse stolen while paying.
The man ran off with it and jumped into a car and sped off.
So beware keep a tight hold on your bags and purses while paying.

 

I must admit although I was upstairs looking down over the mesamean it did shake me up.
The poor womans screams and all the rushing and running by the staff.
I found it to be frightening that something like that could happen inside the shop on a Tuesday lunch time.
The staff told me it has happened before both inside the supermarket and on the car park.
It doesn't seen to matter where you live it's happening everywhere, I suppose as more people lose their jobs it's only going to get worse.

 

Lowlife.. it wants removing from society

 

Yes I no.
She was going on about women do leave themselves open with their bags in trollies and purses in their hands.
It's a shop, what are you supposed to do ?
I go to Asda a lot on my own sometimes at night after work.
I'll think twice from now on.
I might even just take a cash card with me to pay and risk being cloned again as I was before Christmas.
You can't win

 

[size=medium]That's just horrible Lyn.
These are just despicable people who can treat other people like that.
They look for the most vulnerable people they can find.
They're probably drug addicts and even when they get caught nothing happens to them.
All we can do is be vigilant and keep our eyes open and our valuables in the safest place we can find.
Fortunately it's not a problem we have round here but I suppose it could happen anywhere.
Be careful Lyn and everybody else.
And I wouldn't tackle those people - some of them would kill you for a £1.
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Absolutely disgraceful. These people are not even worthy of contempt, they are below even that.

The thing is, the car they sped off in was almost certainly a stolen car too. Too risky to use your own motor in something like that with CCTV and automatic number plate recognition. Quite possibly some totally innocent person will be unaware that any of this happened until the coppers turn up to arrest him/her after the car got traced back to them.

I don't normally agree with corporal punishments, but I think for those that use intimidation to steal from women, kids, old people, should have all their fingers broken with a hammer. It would be very difficult to steal anything again if they can't grip anything.

 

That seems like a just solution to me, Clueless. Perhaps the threat of such retribution would make these louts think twice before robbing vulnerable people. Punishments certainly don't fit the crimes these days and the law seems to be more protective of the perps than the victims. Appalling!

 

I totally agree, but for all theft regardless of who you steal from.

Trouble is, I doubt we could afford the invalidity benefit payouts that the European Court of Human Rights, would say we need to pay these low lifes.

 

A long time ago I was in a motorway service station, when a young man a few places ahead of me in the queue grabbed a purse from beside the till and ran off. Being young and fit in those days, I chased after him and made a citizens arrest. I held him on the ground until the Service Station security officer arrived, and let him take over. I just stood by till the police arrived.

A couple of weeks later, the police came to my house for a statement as the thief was suing the security guard for assault . So nothing has changed then.

 

Sad fact of life that these lowlifes are all around us. Best to keep vigilant and keep valuables in a zipped pocket in your clothing.

As for the title to this thread... 'Robbery at ASDA'... Asda have been robbing us all for years.

 

It's surprising it could happen, you would think the security would catch them on their way out the store.

Surely even if security weren't aware that a purse had been snatched, they would still think someone running for their life out the store is a tad suspicious?!