RISKY Business

[doc540]

Just an hour ago and after dark my wife and I were doing our weekly grocery shopping in a large, national chain.

As I was standing by the front door and as my wife was checking out....a young clerk was clearing out the registers and pushing a cart with thousands of dollars in plain sight.

No one seemed the least bit aware of what they were doing or the risk they were taking.

I said a quiet prayer that nothing would develop and I'd have to use the little, stainless Officers I was carrying under my shirt.

Good grief.....operating a business that way sure puts a lot of innocent employees, mostly kids, at a terrible risk.

 

[MikeNice]

That is actually about par for the course in retail these days. Amazingly few people ever try to do anything.

 

[Owen Sparks]

It is NOT your job to act as a policeman just because you have a weapon. That pistol is there to protect your life, not WallMart's (or whoever's) money.

 

[NOLAEMT]

yep...

They have insurance to cover their losses, unless the person attacks you personally, you have no reason to get involved.

 

[doc540]

Absolutely agree I'm not "store security".

But did you not understand both my wife and I were standing mere feet from the front door and thousands of dollars of cash on display?

If a masked gunman had stepped inside the door I doubt I would have trusted his best intentions of not harming anyone else during a robbery.

It's definitely something that gives one pause.

 

[MICHAEL T]

You didn't rob them. Then don't worry about it . These stores have no security Police only phone call away. That what they belive and like was said They have insurance.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

....a young clerk was clearing out the registers and pushing a cart with thousands of dollars in plain sight.

I would certainly not make it as obvious as that, nor would I go to the bank at the same time every day.

 

[rbernie]

Not about guns or the RKBA == off topic for THR.

Sorry.