When Did You Witness a CRIME Being Committed by Someone who had NO CLUE?

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

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0:00.0	When did you witness a crime being committed by someone who had no clue what they were doing?
0:06.3	When I worked at Hollywood Video, before that evil corporation went out of business, finally,
0:10.8	a man came into my store and bought one bag of popcorn. When I opened the register,
0:15.3	he pulled out a box cutter from his pocket and told me to give him all the money. My first
0:19.9	reaction was to laugh. I couldn't
0:21.9	believe I was being robbed. Then he waved the box cutter around and saw he wasn't horsing around,
0:26.9	to which I told him he wasn't getting anything. He said it'd cut me and I told him good luck
0:31.4	climbing over the counter to get to me. He then placed his hands on the counter and leaned towards me.
0:36.5	I grabbed a box cutter of my own and said,
0:38.9	Well, would you look at that?
0:40.4	A Mexican standoff.
0:42.3	Now, here's where it gets silly.
0:43.8	The man asked if I was threatening him.
0:45.8	I said, no, sir.
0:47.1	Still laughing at the situation.
0:48.8	He proclaimed he was calling the police and I said, please do.
0:52.2	He did, and then he waited for the police to arrive. He told
0:55.8	them I brandished box cutter and threatened his life. I then showed the fine officer our security
1:01.0	footage, and wouldn't you know it, he arrested my new friend. That's my favorite work story.
1:06.0	Call it Bullcrap if you want. I worked at a bowling alley in high school. We had a guy climb up into the ceiling in the
1:12.3	restroom and wait until we were closed so that he could climb down and rob it. Not only did he not
1:17.4	get any money because everything was locked in a gigantic safe from the 1930s that probably weighed
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