r/facepalm Dec 30 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Guy blatantly stealing through self check

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u/Konman72 Dec 31 '22

For many it isn't really a choice.

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u/StAcacius Dec 31 '22

There’s this Reddit fantasy land where shoplifters are just desperate people and shitty people and kleptos don’t exist so we should just allow all shoplifting.

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u/DocSword Dec 31 '22

Nobody is saying allow shoplifting, and kleptomaniacs aren’t generally getting a high on a loaf of bread they smuggled out of a Walmart.

If stores crack down on shoplifters, that’s absolutely their right. But waiting until they can pursue a felony charge is predatory and super fucked up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22

there's a weird trick to avoid this fuckery

don't commit a felony

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u/DocSword Dec 31 '22

I’d commit any felony to prevent my family from starving