A masterpiece of silent cinema
June 29, 2018 10:45 PM Subscribe
Security footage of a couple attempting to escape arrest at a Canadian convenience store, which deserves some sort of award for editing. Watch to the end.
Further details. No one involved was significantly injured.
Further details. No one involved was significantly injured.
I can't wait for imminent edits of this vid with old-timey interstitial captions.
posted by destructive cactus at 10:57 PM on June 29, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by destructive cactus at 10:57 PM on June 29, 2018 [8 favorites]
Do convenience stores have insurance against morons running on rampages and trashing the place? Because some of this stuff looked expensive to fix
posted by aubilenon at 11:02 PM on June 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by aubilenon at 11:02 PM on June 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
I love it when she falls through the ceiling. Comedy gold!
This is such an American style dumb crime it's amazing that Canadians did it instead.
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:03 PM on June 29, 2018 [16 favorites]
This is such an American style dumb crime it's amazing that Canadians did it instead.
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:03 PM on June 29, 2018 [16 favorites]
The way you can tell its Canadian rather than American is that the cops don't beat the crap out of them.
posted by jamjam at 11:08 PM on June 29, 2018 [96 favorites]
posted by jamjam at 11:08 PM on June 29, 2018 [96 favorites]
Did you see the gorilla? Classic!
posted by From Bklyn at 11:14 PM on June 29, 2018 [25 favorites]
posted by From Bklyn at 11:14 PM on June 29, 2018 [25 favorites]
yeah- and that there seems to be no firearms, only tasers, and there seemed to be a reluctance to even use those. I also liked the Canadian cop's use of a bear hug to subdue his opponent. But holy shit she went through the ceiling asjksdj!!!
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:15 PM on June 29, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:15 PM on June 29, 2018 [3 favorites]
never mind, read the article- they do *have* guns, they just weren't pulling them.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:16 PM on June 29, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 11:16 PM on June 29, 2018 [8 favorites]
Should it have Yakety Sax or Keystone Cops theme?
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:28 PM on June 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:28 PM on June 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
Ouch. That looked like the fall would have cracked a rib.
posted by arcticseal at 11:32 PM on June 29, 2018
posted by arcticseal at 11:32 PM on June 29, 2018
The way you can tell its Canadian rather than American is that the cops don't beat the crap out of them.
And this: "Thank God nobody got hurt," says owner of convenience store.
posted by pH Indicating Socks at 11:57 PM on June 29, 2018 [68 favorites]
And this: "Thank God nobody got hurt," says owner of convenience store.
posted by pH Indicating Socks at 11:57 PM on June 29, 2018 [68 favorites]
How on earth were they not able to leave through the back? Is it even legal to have those things locked during business hours?
(of course it is Canada, so maybe they saw a sign that said an alarm would go off if they went through the door, and they didn't want to be a bother)
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 12:07 AM on June 30, 2018 [43 favorites]
(of course it is Canada, so maybe they saw a sign that said an alarm would go off if they went through the door, and they didn't want to be a bother)
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 12:07 AM on June 30, 2018 [43 favorites]
It didn't seem like anyone knew what to do in the situation. The one guy is standing at the door like a bouncer waiting to check IDs while the cop has to try and deal with two people, leaving Mr. Jitters to run into the back.
Then when things look a little under control they give the woman her purse and let her wander around the store mid-arrest, which seems a little too trusting even for Canada.
I can't blame the person behind the counter for just hanging out since you may as well sit back take your pay and enjoy the show at that point.
posted by gusottertrout at 12:09 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
Then when things look a little under control they give the woman her purse and let her wander around the store mid-arrest, which seems a little too trusting even for Canada.
I can't blame the person behind the counter for just hanging out since you may as well sit back take your pay and enjoy the show at that point.
posted by gusottertrout at 12:09 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
Should it have Yakety Sax or Keystone Cops theme?
I had Mission Impossible playing in my head... which was great for the climax
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 12:32 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I had Mission Impossible playing in my head... which was great for the climax
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 12:32 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I'm not really clear on who this woman is and why I should be laughing at her falling through a ceiling and possibly seriously injuring herself? Like what is her role in the credit card crime?
(also this thread is really interesting to contrast with the big white gentrifiers calling the cops on domino players thread)
posted by mannequito at 1:34 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
(also this thread is really interesting to contrast with the big white gentrifiers calling the cops on domino players thread)
posted by mannequito at 1:34 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
I worked in retail, it wasn't just poor people who'd try something. Problematic no more!
My feeling is, if the cops have you bang to rights and your escape plan is to hustle out the back, look directly into the security camera, than crawl into a vent, I think it's fair for others to enjoy the inevitable results of this terrible plan.
posted by Merus at 3:04 AM on June 30, 2018 [41 favorites]
My feeling is, if the cops have you bang to rights and your escape plan is to hustle out the back, look directly into the security camera, than crawl into a vent, I think it's fair for others to enjoy the inevitable results of this terrible plan.
posted by Merus at 3:04 AM on June 30, 2018 [41 favorites]
I don't think the laughter in this case is coming from any (perceived?) poverty, or desperation?
Also, a lot of "poor" people (like the cashier, I imagine) would find tremendous satisfaction in seeing two criminals get a fairly tame comeuppance, and I don't think this is exactly gonna start a hot new trend for metafilter or anything. I don't think they're robbing the store to give Timmy Cratchett a christmas present, no need to put a narrative on this one.
posted by smoke at 3:16 AM on June 30, 2018 [29 favorites]
Also, a lot of "poor" people (like the cashier, I imagine) would find tremendous satisfaction in seeing two criminals get a fairly tame comeuppance, and I don't think this is exactly gonna start a hot new trend for metafilter or anything. I don't think they're robbing the store to give Timmy Cratchett a christmas present, no need to put a narrative on this one.
posted by smoke at 3:16 AM on June 30, 2018 [29 favorites]
It's not that these people are poor. It's that's they're dumb. This all began because Male Idiot tried to pay for a can of soda with a credit card. If you have a stolen credit card, don't waste your limited window buying small stuff. If you think someone has clocked you on the stolen credit card, then leave immediately. When the cops show up don't bother resisting. Unless you've got some sort of outstanding warrant or you assaulted the person you stole the credit card from it's not going to be a big deal.
I'll give Male Idiot some credit for attempting to escape by throwing Female Idiot at the police officer. Not very chivalrous but resourceful. Once that doesn't work because big guy at the door just sort of casually bear hugs you, then you know you're not getting out that way. So when Female Idiot sees Male Idiot go into the back room and come back out she should have ruled out back room as an escape route. Yet Male Idiot tries another run at getting past Big Guy at the door which doesn't work and Female Idiot follows Male Idiot's path to the back room where she comes up with an even dumber escape plan.
posted by rdr at 3:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [9 favorites]
I'll give Male Idiot some credit for attempting to escape by throwing Female Idiot at the police officer. Not very chivalrous but resourceful. Once that doesn't work because big guy at the door just sort of casually bear hugs you, then you know you're not getting out that way. So when Female Idiot sees Male Idiot go into the back room and come back out she should have ruled out back room as an escape route. Yet Male Idiot tries another run at getting past Big Guy at the door which doesn't work and Female Idiot follows Male Idiot's path to the back room where she comes up with an even dumber escape plan.
posted by rdr at 3:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [9 favorites]
The very best part is when Shirtless McDumbfuck realizes the cop is about to corner him so he arms himself with two bags of sunflower seeds and attempts to menace the cop with them.
If he had thrown them at the cop and it had somehow *worked*, like if the cop had been massively allergic to sunflower seeds and run away from them or if they'd scattered on the floor and he'd fallen on his bottom, that would have been the best thing ever.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:44 AM on June 30, 2018 [26 favorites]
If he had thrown them at the cop and it had somehow *worked*, like if the cop had been massively allergic to sunflower seeds and run away from them or if they'd scattered on the floor and he'd fallen on his bottom, that would have been the best thing ever.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:44 AM on June 30, 2018 [26 favorites]
The escape exit in the back room doesn't open when shirtless man pushes on the bar. I'm pretty sure this is a fire code violation.
posted by kandinski at 5:14 AM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by kandinski at 5:14 AM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
never mind, read the article- they do *have* guns, they just weren't pulling them.
The first version I saw definitely shows a weapon pointed at the dude.
posted by Etrigan at 5:19 AM on June 30, 2018
The first version I saw definitely shows a weapon pointed at the dude.
posted by Etrigan at 5:19 AM on June 30, 2018
This not the first security cam footage I've seen of a criminal falling through the ceiling of a convenience store. I'm beginning to suspect that architects build in trapdoor ceilings as a standard convenience store feature.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 5:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by Slithy_Tove at 5:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
I was kinda hoping they’d get away but I’m ACAB like that.
posted by nikaspark at 5:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by nikaspark at 5:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
One of the numerous ways in which the internet has ruined my mind is I now read "ACAB" as "Assigned Cop At Birth".
posted by solarion at 5:29 AM on June 30, 2018 [58 favorites]
posted by solarion at 5:29 AM on June 30, 2018 [58 favorites]
Oh believe me solarion I went EMBARRASSINGLY too long wondering “why do all these cisgender graffiti artists care to tag the city with their assigned at birth gender?”
posted by nikaspark at 5:33 AM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by nikaspark at 5:33 AM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
I'm not exactly sure why, but credit card thieves usually make a small test purchase first. I've seen it multiple times with my own stolen cards, and heard the same from others.
posted by mad bomber what bombs at midnight at 5:34 AM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by mad bomber what bombs at midnight at 5:34 AM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
...the cop is about to corner him so he arms himself with two bags of sunflower seeds and attempts to menace the cop with them.
For some reason reading that sent me into a fit of laughter that lasted almost a 1/2 hour.
Thank you, I really needed that.
posted by james33 at 5:45 AM on June 30, 2018 [10 favorites]
For some reason reading that sent me into a fit of laughter that lasted almost a 1/2 hour.
Thank you, I really needed that.
posted by james33 at 5:45 AM on June 30, 2018 [10 favorites]
This is going to start a crime wave in Canada as US criminals realize what they can get away with without getting shot in Canada.
posted by COD at 5:50 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by COD at 5:50 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
"Hey, let's laugh at poor people who are desperate enough to rob a shop getting hurt"
Hey, let's laugh at two, healthy, agile mature, yet relatively young white people, living in one of the richest nations on earth, with what we can safely assume are an abundance of work, education and lifestyle choices available to them, who have, with conscious deliberation, chosen to steal a stranger's credit card and attempt to defraud an individual who seems to be providing a needed service in the community, and then cause physical harm to the legally constituted representatives of the people who have come to peacefully investigate a complaint, and trash the businessperson's stock ... I feel alright about this.
Plus, once the legal formalities are through, and they are released, probably without jail time, they're going to be internet superstars.
posted by Modest House at 5:51 AM on June 30, 2018 [46 favorites]
Hey, let's laugh at two, healthy, agile mature, yet relatively young white people, living in one of the richest nations on earth, with what we can safely assume are an abundance of work, education and lifestyle choices available to them, who have, with conscious deliberation, chosen to steal a stranger's credit card and attempt to defraud an individual who seems to be providing a needed service in the community, and then cause physical harm to the legally constituted representatives of the people who have come to peacefully investigate a complaint, and trash the businessperson's stock ... I feel alright about this.
Plus, once the legal formalities are through, and they are released, probably without jail time, they're going to be internet superstars.
posted by Modest House at 5:51 AM on June 30, 2018 [46 favorites]
No-one was hurt? The man gets tased in the face at 0:56. The woman falls through the ceiling. That's hurt. But the couple were white like RCMP, so they got considerable forbearance.
Olando Brown did not get that consideration.
posted by scruss at 6:01 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
Olando Brown did not get that consideration.
posted by scruss at 6:01 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
This is such an American style dumb crime it's amazing that Canadians did it instead.
We're making the stupid crime videos Americans can't or won't make.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:01 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
They should have just gone and got sushi and not paid.
posted by flabdablet at 6:39 AM on June 30, 2018 [16 favorites]
posted by flabdablet at 6:39 AM on June 30, 2018 [16 favorites]
I recently sat on a grand jury and two of the three cases we heard demonstrated this level of dumbness. They had a "great" plan and when it went awry they fixed it with even dumber plans. And declined counsel when it was offered and thoroughly explained by the police as shown on taped interviews. (The third case was just sad.)
posted by Botanizer at 6:42 AM on June 30, 2018
posted by Botanizer at 6:42 AM on June 30, 2018
This not the first security cam footage I've seen of a criminal falling through the ceiling of a convenience store. I'm beginning to suspect that architects build in trapdoor ceilings as a standard convenience store feature.
That's why they're called "drop ceilings".
posted by lagomorphius at 6:48 AM on June 30, 2018 [26 favorites]
That's why they're called "drop ceilings".
posted by lagomorphius at 6:48 AM on June 30, 2018 [26 favorites]
I'm beginning to suspect that architects build in trapdoor ceilings as a standard convenience store feature.
I'm beginning to suspect that a drug-addled convenience store thief might be thick enough to believe that being able to see any wide flat surface from above will magically turn it into a floor designed to support the weight of a human body.
posted by flabdablet at 7:04 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
I'm beginning to suspect that a drug-addled convenience store thief might be thick enough to believe that being able to see any wide flat surface from above will magically turn it into a floor designed to support the weight of a human body.
posted by flabdablet at 7:04 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
ACAB "All Cops Are Bastards". I Read it as Assigned Canadian At Birth and it seemed like a sly joke.
Cop had a gun, didn't shoot them. The guy got tased because he resisted arrest, she fell 10 feet and lived. By American standards, they're fine.
posted by theora55 at 7:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
Cop had a gun, didn't shoot them. The guy got tased because he resisted arrest, she fell 10 feet and lived. By American standards, they're fine.
posted by theora55 at 7:20 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I gotta admit I'm impressed by that dude taking a tase and being up and on his feet seconds later.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:29 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:29 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
The one guy is standing at the door like a bouncer waiting to check IDs...
I think that's the shop owner
posted by NoMich at 7:48 AM on June 30, 2018
I think that's the shop owner
posted by NoMich at 7:48 AM on June 30, 2018
Yakety Sax soundtrack version is fine, but the Raising Arizona theme is perfect.
posted by Doktor Zed at 7:56 AM on June 30, 2018 [13 favorites]
posted by Doktor Zed at 7:56 AM on June 30, 2018 [13 favorites]
Raising Arizona definitely came to mind for me too.
And yeah, this ain't Les Miserables. These goobers were high and committing an actual crime, I don't want them roaming the streets.
posted by emjaybee at 8:02 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
And yeah, this ain't Les Miserables. These goobers were high and committing an actual crime, I don't want them roaming the streets.
posted by emjaybee at 8:02 AM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
I gotta admit I'm impressed by that dude taking a tase and being up and on his feet seconds later.
Metric volts are weaker.
posted by Etrigan at 8:07 AM on June 30, 2018 [32 favorites]
Metric volts are weaker.
posted by Etrigan at 8:07 AM on June 30, 2018 [32 favorites]
I'm not exactly sure why, but credit card thieves usually make a small test purchase first. I've seen it multiple times with my own stolen cards, and heard the same from others.
Also banks know this and when it happened to my mom, the bank caught it immediately.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:21 AM on June 30, 2018
Also banks know this and when it happened to my mom, the bank caught it immediately.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:21 AM on June 30, 2018
I feel bad because someone this bad at making decisions (you’re threatening an RCMP with a weapon aimed your chest with bags of sunflower seeds? Seriously?) is truly potentially dangerous if they have no compunction breaking the law and therefore needs to take a timeout from being in society.... but I don’t know if being in a cage is really the help someone this dumb needs.
I mean it is hilarious and I’m glad cctv is now more widely HD and the cool headedness of that cop is to be lauded... but these videos are always tinged with tradegy for me.
posted by midmarch snowman at 8:44 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I mean it is hilarious and I’m glad cctv is now more widely HD and the cool headedness of that cop is to be lauded... but these videos are always tinged with tradegy for me.
posted by midmarch snowman at 8:44 AM on June 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
what we can safely assume are an abundance of work, education and lifestyle choices available to them,
why should we assume this to be true of these two people at a time when this is true of almost nobody??
posted by reprise the theme song and roll the credits at 9:25 AM on June 30, 2018 [17 favorites]
why should we assume this to be true of these two people at a time when this is true of almost nobody??
posted by reprise the theme song and roll the credits at 9:25 AM on June 30, 2018 [17 favorites]
Alberta, and Edmonton in particular, is coming into maybe not a crazy boom, but much better times again. There are jobs for even kids who don't have high school this summer. Social services in Alberta are also among the best in the country.
posted by bonehead at 9:36 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by bonehead at 9:36 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
I think this has to be the best of it's genre. There was no obvious racial profiling and nobody badly hurt or killed. According to the news report, these two are 28 and 29 years of age....grownups.
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:28 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:28 AM on June 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
What we can safely assume are an abundance of work, education and lifestyle choices available to them.
why should we assume this to be true of these two people at a time when this is true of almost nobody??
If you are young, healthy, non-obese, white, not-unattractive (see the video), are bold and courageous (as these two clearly are), and live in a prosperous country like Canada, and can already afford stylish casual clothes like the Nike sneakers, you have to have to work pretty hard to stay off the rungs of the ladder to a middle class lifestyle.
Ask any immigrant.
posted by Modest House at 1:35 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
why should we assume this to be true of these two people at a time when this is true of almost nobody??
If you are young, healthy, non-obese, white, not-unattractive (see the video), are bold and courageous (as these two clearly are), and live in a prosperous country like Canada, and can already afford stylish casual clothes like the Nike sneakers, you have to have to work pretty hard to stay off the rungs of the ladder to a middle class lifestyle.
Ask any immigrant.
posted by Modest House at 1:35 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
I love it when she falls through the ceiling.
WINNER! GAGNANT!
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:08 PM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
WINNER! GAGNANT!
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:08 PM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
I don't approve of every damn sad event on earth ending up as trivial entertainment.
posted by davebush at 2:30 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by davebush at 2:30 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
I don't mind the video being posted here, but i definitely do mind that we're trying to push the "unless it's visible to me, they're personally responsible and deserve this" bullshit. Childhood abuse is a thing. Mental illness is a thing. Sexual assault is a thing. Learning disabilities are a thing. Domestic abuse, accident related trauma, hell even brain damage from sports. Like, there is a very long laundry list of of fucked things that can happen to people that make life harder. Not saying we should assume everyone out there has PTSD, but I also think that assuming no one has it unless you personally can tell is equally as stupid, and the 2nd one is pretty harmful
posted by FirstMateKate at 2:53 PM on June 30, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by FirstMateKate at 2:53 PM on June 30, 2018 [14 favorites]
It is not fear of incarceration, nor my inability to pay for bail, nor a particularly high personal moral standard that keeps me from committing crimes. It's because I would absolutely end up doing everything seen on this video and everyone I know would laugh at me forever. I don't do well under pressure.
posted by VioletU at 2:55 PM on June 30, 2018 [15 favorites]
posted by VioletU at 2:55 PM on June 30, 2018 [15 favorites]
You can be against the power of police and police violence, and sympathetic to the poor or the desperate in society and still find this situation funny because it is pure slapstick hilarity. The dude lost all my sympathy when he used the woman in the video as a battering ram. I'm sympathetic to the woman and hope she wasn't seriously, but she tried to either escape or hide in a drop ceiling, which is just foam hanging from wires. That's just stupid.
posted by runcibleshaw at 2:56 PM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by runcibleshaw at 2:56 PM on June 30, 2018 [7 favorites]
→ WINNER! GAGNANT!
You forgot the tinny victory tune.
posted by scruss at 3:25 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
You forgot the tinny victory tune.
posted by scruss at 3:25 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
really never thought I'd see intersectionality discourse being turned around and used to pummel poor white people for underachieving but the internet brings new wonders everyday.
Like these two are obviously making poor choices for which they are responsible, and this video is obviously funny, but being a skinny white person with one pair of nikes does not mean you were born on the express train to worldly success.
posted by bracems at 3:38 PM on June 30, 2018 [9 favorites]
Like these two are obviously making poor choices for which they are responsible, and this video is obviously funny, but being a skinny white person with one pair of nikes does not mean you were born on the express train to worldly success.
posted by bracems at 3:38 PM on June 30, 2018 [9 favorites]
Maybe it's just me, but the fact that these two are fucked by capitalism like all of us and I sympathize with them far more than I do with the cops -- as always -- is most of what makes it funny. It's quite a bit like Raising Arizona, really -- the bitter empathy underlying the abject idiocy is what triggers the humor for me. Anyone can fall out of a ceiling. But only desperate idiots can do it like this, and that fellow-feeling mixed with disdain is what gets me giggling. Laughter might not be the moral response, but it definely emerges out of moral sympathy.
posted by chortly at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by chortly at 5:00 PM on June 30, 2018 [6 favorites]
When I get to stealin
I like
Fallin thru ceilings
Fallin thru
Cei-lins
posted by freecellwizard at 5:08 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
I like
Fallin thru ceilings
Fallin thru
Cei-lins
posted by freecellwizard at 5:08 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
I caught this at a bar yesterday - like scruss I was similarly surprised by how quickly the man got up after being tased. I think these models have a variable setting instead of a standard charge - it stops transmitting when you stop pressing on the trigger? Consistent with the cop not wanting to actually hurt anyone.
The other thing that struck me was that the woman climbed up and looked straight into the camera.
The unemployment rate in Spruce Grove is 7.8%, an increase of 59.2% since 2011. The Canadian national median is 5.8%.
posted by porpoise at 6:21 PM on June 30, 2018
The other thing that struck me was that the woman climbed up and looked straight into the camera.
The unemployment rate in Spruce Grove is 7.8%, an increase of 59.2% since 2011. The Canadian national median is 5.8%.
posted by porpoise at 6:21 PM on June 30, 2018
where is her other shoe?
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 9:44 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 9:44 PM on June 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
We're making the stupid crime videos Americans can't or won't make.
Furriners takin' our jobs!
posted by AFABulous at 9:56 PM on June 30, 2018
Furriners takin' our jobs!
posted by AFABulous at 9:56 PM on June 30, 2018
Childhood abuse is a thing. Mental illness is a thing. Sexual assault is a thing. Learning disabilities are a thing. Domestic abuse, accident related trauma, hell even brain damage from sports.
Addiction is a thing.
posted by bendy at 11:02 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
Addiction is a thing.
posted by bendy at 11:02 PM on June 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
When he throws the sunflower seeds at the cop, isn’t that (literally) mayhem? Make my vote for the Keystone Cops music.
posted by Jane Austen at 4:35 AM on July 1, 2018
posted by Jane Austen at 4:35 AM on July 1, 2018
→ WINNER! GAGNANT!
You forgot the tinny victory tune .
Also you only did it once. Unlike the last time I was home and stood in a Shopper's Drug Mart listening to that over and over and over and over and over....while the person in front of me cashed in literally 20 winning (gagnant!) tickets....I think I have some kind of PTSD from it.
(the sunflower seeds are awesome, and I think I can both be a hardcore liberal and recognize that there's likely something sad about this, while also finding it funny. Not everything has to be all serious all the time)
posted by biscotti at 5:03 AM on July 1, 2018 [3 favorites]
You forgot the tinny victory tune .
Also you only did it once. Unlike the last time I was home and stood in a Shopper's Drug Mart listening to that over and over and over and over and over....while the person in front of me cashed in literally 20 winning (gagnant!) tickets....I think I have some kind of PTSD from it.
(the sunflower seeds are awesome, and I think I can both be a hardcore liberal and recognize that there's likely something sad about this, while also finding it funny. Not everything has to be all serious all the time)
posted by biscotti at 5:03 AM on July 1, 2018 [3 favorites]
It's a shame there isn't some kind of academic area of study wherein the underlying motivational factors and whatnot of criminal behaviour is studied because I'm sure it would be useful to some light on these sort of "what if they're suffering from PTSD, are they really responsible for their actions?" type of speculation.
posted by some loser at 11:48 AM on July 1, 2018
posted by some loser at 11:48 AM on July 1, 2018
Dead Goats are also a thing
posted by The Gooch at 2:24 AM on July 1 [7 favorites +] [!]
Thanks but no, thats not what is going on here. I'm not looking at the post and assuming the worst just to be a fucking downer, (in fact I said that im neither sympathetic nor unsympathetic to the specific story of these people) I'm responding to the people in this thread that have literally said that non-ugly skinny white people who wear nikes are immune to the systematic existence of poverty, mental illness, and all other "hard life" shit.
This is more of a "actually some goats are invincible" case.
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:24 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The Gooch at 2:24 AM on July 1 [7 favorites +] [!]
Thanks but no, thats not what is going on here. I'm not looking at the post and assuming the worst just to be a fucking downer, (in fact I said that im neither sympathetic nor unsympathetic to the specific story of these people) I'm responding to the people in this thread that have literally said that non-ugly skinny white people who wear nikes are immune to the systematic existence of poverty, mental illness, and all other "hard life" shit.
This is more of a "actually some goats are invincible" case.
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:24 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
Mod note: Heya, I think it would be good if we can suffice it at acknowledging as has been done already that in any "people getting into a weird situation" artifact like this there's possible causal factors and context we as viewers don't have, without necessarily getting any further into an argument about whether folks thinking about that context or folks taking the link at face value are doing it wrong. Maybe let's let that be at this point.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:15 PM on July 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:15 PM on July 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
I just hope that they are least got some Huggies on the way out of the store.
posted by 4ster at 2:23 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by 4ster at 2:23 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
The escape exit in the back room doesn't open when shirtless man pushes on the bar. I'm pretty sure this is a fire code violation.
Often these kinds of doors will open only after 15 seconds of pushing (and alarm).
posted by dmd at 5:15 PM on July 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
Often these kinds of doors will open only after 15 seconds of pushing (and alarm).
posted by dmd at 5:15 PM on July 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
I'm just amazed at the CCTV image quality.
posted by nnethercote at 8:36 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by nnethercote at 8:36 PM on July 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
this is what my cat does when I get home from work
posted by rebent at 10:45 AM on July 2, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by rebent at 10:45 AM on July 2, 2018 [4 favorites]
rebent, my cat hasn’t committed credit card fraud since I put my wallet in a drawer with a knob you have to turn.
posted by AFABulous at 10:46 AM on July 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by AFABulous at 10:46 AM on July 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
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