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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Man in the window contains depictions of sexual violence and is not suitable for everyone. |
0:05.8 | Please be advised. |
0:07.0 | There's a good chance the man loitering by the fence in the nursery section is the kind of |
0:17.9 | customer, Pay and Save Clerk Jeff Gardner, detests most. a shoplifter. |
0:24.4 | Hey, don't come in my store and steal my stuff. |
0:27.3 | You know, go find some other store. |
0:29.4 | His coworker, Ron Stillwell, is sure they've got a thief when he tails the man into automotive and sees a hammer disappear behind the car cushion he clutches to his midsection. |
0:39.0 | Gardner and Stillwell are a crook's nightmare. |
0:43.7 | These young clerks handle store thieves |
0:46.2 | as if they were high Plains hunters tracking game, |
0:49.7 | tailing silently, using hand signals, positioning themselves as a team to spring. |
0:55.9 | We pretty much do the same thing every time and you know this is not our first shoplifting |
1:00.5 | arrest and oh yeah garden's a cop in training, waiting to enter the |
1:05.6 | police academy. To do what we did was not unusual, but in this one apparently |
1:12.4 | it was quite unusual because of the circumstances. |
1:16.0 | Stillwell makes the first move, following the man out to the nursery to ask, |
1:20.0 | has he found what he's looking for, And the shoplifter, attempting distraction, says, |
1:26.0 | Oh yeah, I need that big planter pot way over there. But when Still will send someone else to fetch the pot, the man says he's got to go find his wife. |
1:36.0 | He goes back inside and then walks up and down the aisles, looking more and more upset. |
1:44.2 | Gardner and Stillwell tail him, and in the paint department the clerks see him slip a can out |
1:49.6 | from under the back of his shirt and put it on a shelf. |
1:53.6 | It's dog repellent, the smelly kind you sprinkle on your lawn. |
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