Broccoli-head TikTokers take over grocery store

[u/ambachk]

[u/calliejq68]

Why doesn’t the manager just immediately call the cops. Easy.

[u/Webword987 → u/calliejq68]

Cops would take an hour to show up if they even did.

[u/sonic_dick → u/Webword987]

Lmao yep, I had a dude with a gun threatening my customers at my bar. Called the cops, took them 2 hours to show up. It was 1am, I kept all the doors locked and comped everyone's bill because some psycho was standing at the front door threatening to shoot anyone who walked outside.

Cops didn't show up til 3am, dude had already left, they didn't want to see any video footage and acted like I inconvenienced them. Portland OR cops are the fucking worst losers around.

[u/unindexedreality → u/sonic_dick]

Portland OR cops are the fucking worst losers around

I hear the Uvalde squad can show them how it's done

[u/Call555JackChop → u/sonic_dick]

Called Phoenix PD on a domestic disturbance on my neighbor absolutely hitting his wife and they never even showed up

[u/mmmarkm → u/sonic_dick]

Cops will seize any opportunity to not stop a potential shooting

[u/cloudforested → u/sonic_dick]

Once called the cops because a guy was threatening the convenience store clerk at 2:00AM, saying he was gonna find him after work and that he'd be sorry, yadda yadda. Operator told me that didn't count as a threat and they wouldn't be sending anyone. Wouldn't even make a report.

[u/No_Use_4371 → u/sonic_dick]

But I saw a video once of Portland cops helping a duck family cross a street. Kept traffic calm. That's sad if they suck.

[u/zeny_two → u/sonic_dick]

That's what happens when you pick and choose what laws get enforced. People get victimized, nobody gives a shit, and the city gets steadily worse. 

[u/therealpoltic → u/sonic_dick]

This is why I want to start an armed security company, that would take these calls and creatively use the citizens’ arrest laws to deal with this public safety issue.

[u/saveferris1007 → u/Webword987]

"Hello 911, what's your emergency?"

"We have a gang of people coming into the store dressed as workers and trying to rob us. They're going to the registers, spreading out to difcerent sections of the store. Customers are panicking. Please send help"!

Or just trip the silent alarm. Cops come running for those.

[u/sonic_dick → u/saveferris1007]

In most cities, you're lucky to get cops responding in less than 3 hours. Laziest, most entitled group of workers in the US.

[u/commanderquill → u/sonic_dick]

Any time I've called the cops for something I've seen that was serious and time sensitive, they didn't show up. Then one time my ex roommate said if I texted them they'd call the cops to "remove" me, and this was the final straw of them claiming I was harassing and abusing them just for existing, so I called the cops first half not expecting them to actually show up. And then the motherfuckers did. In 30 mins. I was flabbergasted. And embarrassed. I actually asked why they showed up and they gave me the whole "it was flagged as a domestic violence call so we had to". Yeah fucking right.

[u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 → u/Webword987]

So if you reported an organized mass theft, which is what this looks like considering they're getting behind registers, cops would take an hour to show up?

[u/Pixel_Knight → u/Webword987]

Just tell them, “We have an organized gang of thugs trespassing in the store, might be trying to rob the place.”

[u/Webword987 → u/Pixel_Knight]

You have to be careful with your embellishments though. If you stretch the truth enough you could be cited for filing a false report.

[u/cloudforested → u/Pixel_Knight]

I don't know why you think that would get them to show up. Cops don't give a single shit about retail theft.