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Thieves Argued for Lesser Charge Because Items Were on Sale

#theft#coupons#kohls#turkeys#mall
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0:00 remember that guy that jumped over the counter and in the this at the smoke shop in Vegas and the Asian dude just goes that's a r that one of those come on man don't do that he jumped over I love that and I was like what the ████ I love [Music] that two men who are convicted of felony theft for stealing more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from a Kohl's store from Kohl's that's a lot of ████ that's a lot of quantity probably went electon Co has great deals they are arguing that they should have their felony charges bumped down to a misdemeanor because the the items were on sale and they had coupons really so they were trying to get rid of them anyway so it brings the value lower coupons are valid during theft that is

0:50 an amazing well they're arguing that it wasn't $2,000 worth so it should be knocked down to a misdemeanor because it has all his coupons didn't they change the definition of grand theft though recently that's why people can steal 950 all the ████ yeah right in California I think this is well California you there's no theft you just grab whatever you want self checkout everywhere self checkout you know when I see all those uh videos now of people like just rushing it looks like those like TV shows when they had the shopping spree game shows where it's like sweep yeah and then you run in with your ████ cart and you just are piling it up and you just run out and I'm all like that's why the kids are so good at it they know the strategy it's ████ insane I feel so bad for the workers cuz the workers are just like dude D watching a bunch of

1:41 middle-aged women throw a bunch of turkeys into a shopping carart is ████ hilarious dude turkeys you got to go high value first and they're just going like that like that with the turkeys it's the best dude that is a really funny argument though right it is true because you always wonder how they come up with those totals you know is that the sale price or is that the full retail cuz what if what if someone goes on top of that and says all right I want the manufacturing price the wholesale price like they can't do the retail price these guys are digging deep trying to get out of this felony ████ so they're like you know we got all there's there so all this stuff was if you look up the coupons it's all less than they're saying so they had a pocket full of coupons hey so so so if you had if that was your lawyer would you be like oh yo that's a that's a tight move thank you for even thinking like is that is that considered a good lawyer you know and by the way on top of the coupons you're student so you get

2:31 student discount oh ████ you're military military discount veteran discount oh it adds up those Val those savings do add up dude but what do you want from Kohl's though what do you guys get from Kohl's ████ dude these guys were taking kitchen A Appliances see Supermarket sweeps valet sweep yeah you go for the electronics and yeah kitchen is expensive and get this I'm not making this up these guys were called The Kitchen Aid mixer crew like like wet Bandits but these guys are the kitchena mixer crew yeah well they went strictly for the appliances going highend ████ yeah mostly kitchen app is that made up is that a Steve Green ████ improv I swear it's not look kitchen a mix crew is it the reviews are in and it's hot best ████ is sitting next to a dancer he doesn't know I have notepad open it's nothing it say nothing on

3:22 there but the the sand mixers bro you get you get to mix all the different attachments those are expensive that ████ adds what what was the actual total over over 2,000 $294 I respect anybody who's able to even come up with something new to say in this situation cuz you think you've heard it all with at least they're trying Hey this is Colorado yeah I heard Colorado is kind of like California where it's very like like wokey theft theft under $2,000 is a misdemeanor offense under 2,000 but we just let people go though so that's why they're trying to get it knocked down cuz it's $294 so like some of this ████ was on sale dude yeah hey you what if what if they're like you plus taxed yeah exactly tax is already theft so dude they're really trying to like stretch the system how do they total that up it is interesting cuz if you think about like let's say you you went to Pet Boys and you stole four

4:12 tires the the fourth one's free usually yeah see so like are they putting that into the ████ consideration well Pro prosecutors are basically saying sales and discounts are only for paying customers who can't use that ████ that's a very straightforward sensible answer I I get it yeah so that lawyer does is not that good then we'll see it's only for paying customers yeah I that's fair is it so one of the guys got sentenced to 15 months in prison and then another the other guy got sentenced 90 days in jail why for stealing Where Have You Been video no but why does this guy get less than the other guy no why does one guy get 15 years and why does one guy get 90 days Well's the getaway driver I don't know the other guy the other guy who carried more stuff during Supermarket Sweep he was putting the turkeys in totals dude one guy was the Anthony Lee

5:02 and one guy was the Ry anim Anthony Lee's like hey you go steal this and Ry anim is like all right he's the guy doing all the work ideas guy yeah the ideas guy the guy that you need the guy that's most important but then what happens if you steal things from like let's say like a vintage market that's Outdoors like are they going to go by the tags nah like how do you find the the value of things no one's they're going to let them go they're they're going to think twice about that they're going to be like those guys on eBay who are like you know that they sell they resell ████ like look for the last sale right right the last High cuz like what if you ████ up and you actually stole like a mly crew real vintage shirt oh yeah you're 5,000 in the hole now oh you're done though like that's crazy you're going to jail baby it just seems weird like how do they tally these things up when they're not actual like barcode Goods did you guys hear about the the uh Smash and grabs at the Sanita Mall recently yeah I couldn't believe it happened there yeah what happened so

5:52 it's it's a store that my wife loves to go into and they have like they have a rebag and it's they called rebag yeah so it's like all the nice vintage Chanel designer bags and then people send them sell them secondhand oh cool so but each bag is like ████ 1,500 like they're they're a gang of money but like there's a security guard in there they have to buzz you in with the with the glass doors and then you can go in and there's only like two people at a time apparently they went in there smashed it with a sledgehammer oh they smashed that place apparently they smashed it grabbed everything ████ dipped out W it said to see it happen at at a mall that nice yeah but I'm surprised it doesn't happen more though honestly dude Tiff's Pur is like 15 H each Jesus bro she likes to collect them she's like they're what they she's like it's an asset I'm like I don't know cuz it's vintage true those do have a really high for sure for sure if she knows her ████ yeah she she she likes the pieces but like they're ████ I'm like dude

6:43 that much for a purse a lot of people are getting smart going like oh ████ you know who we haven't touched the Asian neighborhoods cuz they have hell of money yeah what damn well there's rap songs that talk about that did you hear that there's there's rap there's like like a rap song I forgot who I me I think it was anal Chopper somebody had a rap the lyric that said something like hit the Asian houses cuz they don't believe in Banks oh T did they shout out the sgv sh thank you dud what if you're a robber and you go into an Asian house and then you're like ████ where's the money that's not here and and you're like damn I learned something about stereotypes today yeah sometimes they're not always true wow what a wow what a powerful moment can't judge everything by wow some stereotypes are not true wow as the

7:34 camera zooms out and they stay themselves in the mirror dang yeah these Smash and grabs are SM there was a smash and grab at Stonewood mall like not too long ago which mall Stonewood in Downey oh it's like where my my parents go and my mom my mom's so cute she like was showing me the video and she's like that's where your dad bought the engagement ring for me like in the'80s wow I felt so bad she was like so sad looking at the footage of them just ransacking it it's so sad you think about like how hard your your dad was working to like afford that like ring and then some dude just like I wonder when it's going to turn around when they're actually going to arrest these ████ I don't know there was a a methhead yesterday that came to the store and um at the the the June be in Hawaii dude that video is crazy and then they uh just grabbed the tip jar oh when one of my uh employees

8:24 was just turned around making a drink he just grabbed the CH tip jar and walked away Dam and then he looks like a grown ass dude like and it's like you just stole from a buch of kids dude you're a ████ idiot and the thing is the tip Char usually just has like 20 bucks in there so it's like you did all of that and it goes a long way for the kids yeah but he wanted the coins though for the laundry and stuff probably he need he needed coins no he couldn't get change anywhere be a little empathetic okay he's got a free laundry for the next 6 months who's really who's really dumb yeah dude I mean he didn't look like a homeless guy like he looked like a Able Body dude that can get a ████ job who washes his clothes at that prob life dude the one time I encountered theft like they're actually super like uh not smart I I guess smart I guess cool it was cool charismatic they're very like crafty in the way they're like actually like thinking about what's the most expensive item cuz I I did a retail at a

9:16 convention and it's busy and we usually have our clothes out on these racks and there's this one expensive jacket where I'm just standing there watching it but as we change shifts that's when they would go oh so they monitor you they're walking around looking at you and then they time it like very precisely as soon as you switch they they grab it yeah there was another theft that happened at my store too where this guy was kind of waiting for the employees to go to the front cuz we have a back kitchen area and then I guess one of the employees just walked in and didn't lock the door cuz they were bringing some stuff from you know the storage and then right when they moved we saw this in the camera he opened opened it up stuck his hand down in this like little area they had bags and stuff grabbed some headphones like some beat spot Dre and then he he walked

10:08 out I'm like damn that's crazy like he he specifically took headphones nothing else smart dude see that's what I'm saying like they're they're smart enough to know the timing of what to steal what to take yeah cuz if he took a purse a wallet or whatever people would have like been what the ████ right but I guess no one really noticed throughout the day and they're like oh where's my headphones and they're like oh I yeah but the thing is it's like if you get caught though it's like yeah that'd be so I was thinking how funny it would be if they had bait stores that are not even real stores but they're just meant for people to smash and grab and then it just shuts the door dud that would be so nice like a like a humanid rat trap that' be so amazing what isn't that entament why is that even aw wrongful imprisonment I don't like that yo you know one of my favorite videos is remember that guy that jumped over the counter and in the this at the smoke shop in Vegas and the Asian dude just

10:59 goes that's a rough bro that would be one of those come on man don't do that he jumped over I love that and I was like what the ████ I love that fck I love that ████ have the Vegas boys been in uh any uh Targets in California recently no no so we got this really dope feature in California that they don't have in Vegas where if you want to get maybe a stick of deodorant you have to press a buzzer cuz it's all locked up so it's extra safe for all of us the Vegas people don't have it cuz you guys are ████ bums you guys will never get this and you have to press the button and then an employee comes maybe 5 minutes maybe like 5 seconds and they'll come around and then they'll unlock the thing for you and then give you your stick of deodorant just to give it to you did they escort you after that you just pocket it after that I never thought of that actually but it's ████ annoying so uh last

11:49 month I didn't go to a Target but I did go to like a r Aid Gio I think left her makeup bag at home so she like oh ████ I need some makeup we go to Ride Aid and every single thing is locked so she's like okay mascara they have to come and unlock it and then uh okay lipstick okay that has to be unlocked and then ████ Foundation whatever that has to be unlocked like every single personal shopper it's cool what that it's a personal shopper it helps you uh like a coner yeah I'm surprised they don't have this in Vegas that's a good way of looking at what blew my mind is like big ass stores like Whole Foods and Target left certain places that's that's the big that's the biggest I'm just like I didn't think those businesses would ever like leave a city me either but did you see what happened at the Watts Nike shop what because the you know the Nike there's a Nike store in Watts it's like a really like uh vulnerable area but uh

12:40 it doesn't normally get robbed because the actual neighborhood takes care of it like they don't want to rob their own joint so like the day that it did get robbed and a bunch of people did a smash and grab there the neighborhood stood in front of it wow that's dope dude see that's ████ tight because they were like we don't want Nike to leave like cuz that's going to there's people that have jobs there but that's the way you do it man like your own hood takes care of the the stuff there that was so sick we need to do that at Sanita mall or were they blocking it there's not enough people to block them all dude dude all those entrances takes 1,600 people what if they were just blocking it cuz like no I'm going to go steal that ████ tomorrow you better not take the inventory today yeah yeah they're camping out they're camping out to steal it it's dope cuz it it really looks like a bunch of people loitering in the parking lot all night but they were really protecting it

13:30 some dope stuff what they need to do at the Santa mall is create a Great Wall Gang is Con Great Wall that's a good idea they start lighting the fires D across it's a landmark and it serves a [Music] purpose

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