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originally posted by: wantsome
Lady that works at the gas station said some ladies kids were stuffing their pockets with candy bars. The cashier said to her hey your kids a stealing. Her reply was my kids wouldn't do dat.
The stores around here don't let more then 2 students in at a time. They'll steal anything not bolted down.
I'm 2 blocks north of Detroit. I've talked to this lady every day for 20 years. I doubt she's making it up. I've talked to other in the area too. There is a crime wave sweeping over the suburbs right now. I see it every day in the news. I've lived here 43 years. I've been robbed and shot at. I know people that have been stabbed at that same gas station. I've seen it all around here and it's only gotten worse the past 10 years.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
originally posted by: wantsome
Lady that works at the gas station said some ladies kids were stuffing their pockets with candy bars. The cashier said to her hey your kids a stealing. Her reply was my kids wouldn't do dat.
The stores around here don't let more then 2 students in at a time. They'll steal anything not bolted down.
Really weird that you posted that.
Years and years ago I was with family in a convenience store. The gas station lady accused a family member of shoplifting.
My mom made the relative turn all their pockets out. There was nothing in them. Not sure about the kids in your story, but sometimes gas station ladies are wrong.
originally posted by: wantsome
I'm 2 blocks north of Detroit. I've talked to this lady every day for 20 years. I doubt she's making it up. I've talked to other in the area too. There is a crime wave sweeping over the suburbs right now. I see it every day in the news. I've lived here 43 years. I've been robbed and shot at. I know people that have been stabbed at that same gas station. I've seen it all around here and it's only gotten worse the past 10 years.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
originally posted by: wantsome
Lady that works at the gas station said some ladies kids were stuffing their pockets with candy bars. The cashier said to her hey your kids a stealing. Her reply was my kids wouldn't do dat.
The stores around here don't let more then 2 students in at a time. They'll steal anything not bolted down.
Really weird that you posted that.
Years and years ago I was with family in a convenience store. The gas station lady accused a family member of shoplifting.
My mom made the relative turn all their pockets out. There was nothing in them. Not sure about the kids in your story, but sometimes gas station ladies are wrong.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: Asktheanimals
I can't find the article. Just recently there was a local gas station in a bad part of Milwaukee/ or near there.
It has had several thefts/shootings. The people want the gas station removed because they believe that is what is causing crime in the area.
I have to laugh. No dummies, the gas station sells gas and goodies, it's people doing the illegal deeds.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
It should be noted that while retail theft may be high, crime of all other kinds has been declining steadily for a while now, and crime rates are lower than they've been in decades.
Increased security measures, fewer young people with sticky fingers (or even going outside), readily available legal weed, nothing worth stealing or fencing for drugs, no way to easily steal car radios, etc.
Having worked in retail, I gathered that sometimes having an item stolen will make the store more money than if nobody bought it and they had to ship it to a clearance store like Ross, or TJ Maxx, or Burlington, etc.
originally posted by: wantsome
a reply to: JAGStorm
Yeah a lot of those old buildings and houses have some cool architecture. I thought about buying one of those old houses on a vacated street and turning it into a fortress.
There are parts of Detroit where there are multi million dollar mansions 1/2 a mile away from the hood. It goes from rich to poor in the blink of an eye. I'm talking about the city of Grosse Point and Detroit.
A lot of people don't realize Detroit and it's suburbs span 50 miles across. It's only the inner city that looks like an apocalyptic war zone. My grand parents lived down there as kids. When the riots happened in the 60's white people left.
Not that long ago Detroit was the most segregated city in America.
We had a Democratic governor back in the early 2000's. She opened all the school districts up. Any kid could go to any district they wanted. The kids would walk out of Detroit to go to school here. Unfortunately the crime and drugs followed. This house went from being worth $100,000 to 30,000 and the price is dropping by the year.
The school I went to was one of the best schools around when I was a kid. Now kids are stabbing each other in class and a girl got raped in the stairwell.
I'm here to help my grandmother and when she's gone I'm going to the upper peninsula. I've had enough of the indigenous people from the hood. They're coming out here and shooting at each other. Robbing every store that stays open after dark. The schools are being flooded with heroin.
I'm out of here first chance I get.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: JAGStorm
It's virtually legal in L.A. now if you keep the value under $950 a day -
Los Angeles City Attorney: Petty Crimes are Now LEGAL in Our City
Hard to imagine how we could have fallen this far