Hard disagree. Retail workers have it bad enough and the situation has to have been absolutely awful for this guy to actually get arrested instead of coddled by management.
I tend to agree. Superficially, attacking someone with a poptart sounds funny, but I’m sure irl, it was more like repeatedly punching with the poptart in hard or throwing a bunch of shit around like a pouting toddler. I imagine the worker was a child or elderly too and not the 6’2" guy they make stock the high shelves.
Edit: I was wrong… he did just throw a poptart… but it was while shoplifting, so that explains the arrest.
I’m not defending the guy but this is a good reason why it is generally against protocol to confront shoplifters. Just let your employer collect the evidence and handle it their way.
Confronting shoplifters is stupid. Why risk your safety for a corporation that won’t risk anything for you? Especially when they’re worth billions of dollars and you’re making minimum wage. Is it really worth your life to save some faceless corporation two dollars? That’s not even getting into the fact that people who are stealing food are probably starving and desperate.
Nothing even hints at this being about shoplifting. I agree with what you said, but there’s nothing that says it’s related to this at all.
The news story reports an accusation of repeat shoplifting. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/man-facing-felony-charge-after-allegedly-throwing-pop-tart-at-walgreens-employee
Cut a poptart into the shape of a gun and you’ve got yourself a gun, baby.
School administration lost sight of the goal decades ago. This kind of stupid-ass decision is part of why kids are unhappy and developing mental health issues at an unprecedented rate.
We don’t have pop tarts where I live so I was about 15 when I first travel to america and eat one. This thing is HARD! it could easily be used as weapon (also horrible!)
IDK where you got it from but they’re not usually hard lol, most people toast them too
Anything’s a weapon if you’re determined enough
Was it still wrapped? I wanna hear the smack it made.
I can already hear it in my head.
how would they word a law like this?
how can we objectively define what is funny or not?
Internet polls
Nah, then we would have people vote bombing for people like Trump to get off because inciting Jan 6. was “funny”.
Yes, that’s the joke. There would always be some group voting that kitten genocide is funny
that sounds like a great idea honestly
“if monetizing a video of a crime can pay for the damages caused by the crime and there were no injuries, no deaths, no falsehoods portrayed, and no undermining of an election occurs then the crime will be recorded but no fines or penalties shall be levied.”
Maybe let the victim pick between charging the attacker or getting all proceeds from the monetized video? Probably lead to lots of people deliberately setting up increasingly complex ways for a friend to attack them, then they split the proceeds. Hmm, the rational part of me says bad idea, but the descended-from-folks-that-loved-watching-gladiator-fights part of me would totally watch.
RIP OJ
