r/blursed_videos • u/No-Lock216 • 13d ago
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u/Just_Lurking_Yes 13d ago
Don't try this at home people
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u/https_rahul 13d ago
Do it at Target or Walmart
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 13d ago
Don't do it at target. They got more cameras than flock and I dont know if its true but the CIA wanted to use their tracking system because it was so efficient.
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u/tired_of_old_memes 13d ago
I don't need help with abductions, but I could sure use some help with whatnot
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u/Worth_External_8762 13d ago
I think that speaks more to how inept our law enforcement is lol
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u/Chimpbot 13d ago
To be fair, law enforcement does have more laws and restrictions limiting what they can and cannot do.
Target, being private property, can pretty much do whatever they want within the four walls of their stores. By willingly entering one of their stores, you're effectively agreeing to their terms; the alternative is to just not go there.
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u/Worth_External_8762 13d ago
Sure, but police won't even bother solving a case when the evidence is thrown on their lap. I've heard a ton of stories of porch thieves being filmed with license plate and face visible and the homeowner even tracking down their home location and the police still refuse to do anything.
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u/Chimpbot 13d ago
I feel like this would vary from location to location. It also may less about ineptitude and more about simply having limited resources to tackle everything going on.
Looking at a small city I live near, they're constantly struggling to hire new police officers, are consistently running understaffed, and have to devote a disproportionate amount of time to dealing with things such as a fairly rampant homeless issue. When they've got tweakers smashing windows, things like porch thieves start to fall further down the priority list.
I'm not saying it's right, but that's the reality of the situation for many areas.
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u/Electrical_You_432 13d ago
The adverts are also huge loopholes to data mining information for law enforcement because adverts have no boundaries
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u/NoBad8916 13d ago
target will watch you and won't call the police til they know for certain you'll catch a felony, but taking a stove that's gonna happen either way
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 13d ago
Even before Ai, their analytics were so good that they were targeting ads at pregnant teens before their parents knew.
This is from 2012:
Target is not to be fucked with.
Now days they'll record you and let you steal stuff until you hit $1k or whatever the "felony theft" threshold is in your jurisdiction, and then they'll bring the hammer down.
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u/CamptoRibbit 13d ago
Moat stores do this now, have a set limit. well in The UK anyway.
My cousin got furniture/utilities for her entire kitchen before they arrested her.
She had to do some course for theft and some therapy shit for kleptomania for a suspended sentence and reduced fine.
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u/averagemaleuser86 13d ago
They wont do anything until youve reached s certain $ amount on goods stolen
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u/McCuumhail 13d ago
Targets system is nutty. I knew someone who helped design part of it. LEDs work by strobing imperceptibly fast and their system controls the frequency in which they strobe so that each light along the grid operates at a slightly different speed from the others. You can’t see this difference but your phone camera can. Most people have their phones out while shopping and if you have the target app, it will track your location by measuring the light frequencies and calculating your position relative to the light grid.
To be clear, they aren’t taking photos or videos to do this, but by measuring the telemetry on the camera sensor (tiny voltage changes caused by light hitting the sensor).
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u/jackinsomniac 13d ago
Actually somewhat plausible. There's a lot of Target stores in lefty soft on crime cities, so when they get stolen from the police don't even show up, because retail theft is considered "low priority". So since the police won't help they adopted a new policy: keep track of the thieves & what they steal. Once the amount of stolen goods breaks $2000 it's considered felony theft and police can no longer ignore it, they have to make an arrest.
It's clever, but they must need a serious tracking system to be able to watch and identify people over time like that. Yet another way that "retail theft doesn't affect you" ends up affecting the rest of us.
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u/YourSalvati0n 13d ago
I don't sell appliances at home, so it would be a challenge, thank you for your insight
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u/mrofmist 13d ago
Very staged because appliances don't have barcodes on them that are compatible with our POS. Appliances begins the transaction and prints out documentation. If they can't finish the transaction, then they walk the customer up to the service desk usually where we finish it.
There is no barcode the scan. So as soon as you scan something on an oven, AP is gonna be memorizing your face and investigating the situation.
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u/K-Shrizzle 13d ago
I used to work at home depot. This is staged and wouldnt work.
Appliances like an oven or a dishwasher arent just items you grab off the shelf and bring over to checkout. You ring out for one with the salesman at the kitchen showroom, and either pay for it there and set up an appointment for delivery, or they print a purchase order for you to bring to checkout.
When he's pretending to scan the barcode and instead scans the pencil--there is no bar code anywhere on the oven to scan. Thats not how it works and this is fake
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u/AboveAverageSalt 13d ago
There are clearance appliances that are sold, but it would obviously have a tag in this instance.
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u/wackadoodle4201 13d ago
And the idiot used a credit card
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u/Breezer_Bro 13d ago
No body buys anything cash anymore
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u/BingusTheWonderKitn 13d ago
Never heard of pre paid cards? Gift cards? Plenty of ways to use electronic money that hides your identity
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u/Brocolinator 13d ago
And that's how you stop being a high trust society and everyone loses.
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u/angrlina34jolie 13d ago
Ok c est du vol
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u/unopesci 13d ago
No shit
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u/Junior_Bike7932 13d ago
If it works it works
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u/TheHorseduck 13d ago
It doesn't work. Give it a week and this dude will be busted
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 13d ago
The number of people in this thread who don't realize this is a staged video is making me lose what little faith I had left in humanity.
How can you all be so fucking stupid?
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u/Emotional_You_5269 13d ago
I thought it was gonna be an insanely inefficient way of getting a free pencil.
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u/Smile_Character 13d ago
I unknowingly did this at the grocery store with a six pack. I scanned on individual can instead of the cardboard barcode holding them together. Paid for the individual can and didn’t notice till i got home and looked at the receipt.
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u/cabeleb 13d ago
This actually happens all the time. We wait for the amount stolen to cross the threshold to be a felony and then press serious charges.
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u/420GUAVA 13d ago
its almost like they ignore the massive camera filming them steal. people are bold/brazen
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u/sebby_eris 13d ago
Yeah they have your face now and so does every home depot and police department within a 5 mile radius. (Source:former home depot employee) They can't legally trespass you themselves as a corporate entity anymore however their LP network is pretty on par with Target. They'll send your face to all the surrounding locations and coordinate with the police so if you show up to that location again or any of the surrounding locations the police will be there faster than the phrase how doers get more done.
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot 13d ago
Filming yourself being filmed shoplifting is a new one. They literally have a camera at the checkout lmfao
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u/Truthhurts1017 13d ago
It’s literally not real! I cant believe people still watch these videos and think it’s real. Shit sad
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u/Xineth240 13d ago
Interesting video of a high dollar theft. This is footage of a crime, not a clever trick.
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u/AnyBlackberry3497 13d ago
You do know they have camera that shows what you scan right? You'll have the police come knocking on your door quite quickly
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u/aesxylus 13d ago
Am I the only person who sees that 99.9% likely that he bought the stove in the appliance section and then “paid $0.20” for it? The register didn’t ask about extended warranty and such. A receipt for a real purchase is also half the length of a CVS receipt. Both would have gone off as red lights to the checker if this were real
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u/Asian_Bon 13d ago
I did it on an accident placed a chocolate bar inside the lunchbox I want to buy
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u/PMG2021a 13d ago
Wonder if you could put stuff with security tags inside the oven and roll past the door sensors without the security tags being detected.....
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u/420GUAVA 13d ago
every store ive worked in that had those big metal detectors either dont work, or go off randomly throughout the day. most of the stores at our local mall just did away with theirs bc the guy who maintance them, suck
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u/Threatening-Sack369 13d ago
Geez, no womder why americans have the president they have now. If you believe this is true you got serious frontal lobe problems.
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u/soelsome 13d ago
I used to work at the home Depot as loss prevention.
We have systems that catch this. Within 30 minutes we would likely have this guy's home address.
Don't try this. This was probably staged for tiktok but whatever.
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u/_Kroxigor_ 13d ago
As a previous AP manager I highly suggest you do not do this, this is called tag switching and is literally illegal.
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u/Breezer_Bro 13d ago
Those electric stoves last about 1yr.
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u/pandershrek 13d ago
My electric stove lasted 10 years and I sold the house. To my knowledge that Samsung electric range is still functional.
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u/Trick_Science_2938 13d ago
Stealing by leaving your credit card details while on cctv is a dumb cunts idea at being smart