I work at a local convenience store (like the guys in Clerks) and just in the last 4 weeks the following has taken place either while I was there, or I heard about it sometime when I got there another day:

1) The place across the street, a small computer repair shop called "The PC Medics" was robbed... no idea who, and details have not been given on what was taken, but it was robbed, and I know a few people who work there. So if you live in Wisconsin or a bordering state and someone offers to sell you a wide variety of cheap computer parts out of the back of a van... well let me know.

2)a young tall skinny black male, probably 16 or 17 comes in and asks my co-worker, who is 55 years old, to give him a $20 bill in exchange for a ten, five, and 5 ones or some combo like that. So it takes my co-worker a minute to figure out what the guy wants, because he is speaking in fluent ebonics, which "Fred" (my co workers name Ill use for now) doesnt seem to speak. But Fred figures out what he wants, and says he cant give him a 20 because we drop all of our 20's into the safe once we get them which means they go bye bye for us and can only be gotten by someone with a safe key (which we dont have). So Fred very un-aggressivley puts the kids money on the counter and slides it back to him. The kid then starts flipping out saying "Thats disrespectful! You threw mah Moonay at me! Disrespectin man!" on and on. Eventually his female friends that were with him, who were probably 3 years younger than him, along with me waving the cordless phone saying "you can leave now or the po-lice (small attempt to speak his language) gonna be here". But he keeps flippin out, his friends get him outside, trying to settle him down, and he hocks a big loogie on the window, spit streaming down all over. Well for me thats it right there, call the cops, they arrive well after he had gone, but it was all on camera... I show it to him. Eventually the cop leaves, the kid comes back with his friends, loitering out front, and a different, much larger cop pulls up, calls the store from his car and says "which one spit on your window", I point him out, and the big cop gives the kid a good talkin to (no arrest or anything as far as I could tell).

3) Another black male, this one older, at least 18, probably 20 comes in. Of course I didnt see him come in, because I was in the back room. Well I start walking up to the front by the registers, and he is walking in the same direction just in front of me, putting a candy bar in his back pocket. It was so obvious to me, but not to anyone behind the registers. It happened that he didnt see me while he was putting it in his pocket. So he gets in line, I keep walking up behind the register, looking right at him, he looks at me and I can tell he knows I saw him. Didnt seem to care though, he just paid my co-worker for some gas, and as he walks out I whisper to my co-worker "did he get a candy bar" "no..." "well he took one". I walk outside, as he's going across the parking lot to his car and I say "You gonna pay for that candy bar?!" he turns around and says "Ah Puh Ih Back!" ( I put it back, translated). He defininitely didnt put it back, since he went strait from the register outside, and putting it back would require him to walk a great distance back to the candy bars... I say "We got cameras that would show if you put it back" "Ah Puh Ih Back, Ah swear" giving me some "who are you to talk to me?" look. I say "Well I cant search you, but we can have the police do it..." and he says "you gonna call the police ovah a candy bar?" "If I have to..." then he says "here, take this dollar, I swear I put it back..." looking at me like I must be the stupidest person ever. The dollar was more than the candy bar cost.... probably should have called the cops anyway, since this wasnt his first time. Just the first time I knew for certain he had done it (which is the rule... you have to be totally certain to confront someone about that).

4) This has been an issue for awhile now, but this is a microcosm of what goes down. A lady, white, middle age, comes in, brings to the counter 2 18-packs of beer, a buttload of grocery items, and asks for 2 cartons of cigarettes (for those unfamiliar, a carton is a box of 10 packs, 200 cigs in all, usually costs around $30 - $40 in Wisconsin). So automatically I'm supposed to be suspicious if she pays with, and she did, a check. She also wrote it for $10 over the amount, so its like an $80 check. She gives me the check.. it has a man's name on it, and its from out of town. I say "I'm going to need some ID for this check." She says "He's in the car..." I say "Can he come in?" She goes out to get him, they are parked around the corner, out of our normal path of vision so that we cant get a good view of the plates (which is where people like this usually park). The guy comes in with a cane, limping, and I'm thinking I will feel bad about making him get out of the car, unless... "I just grabbed the checkbook, I didnt grab no ID..." dropping some line about him recently having surgery along with it, causing me to think "what does surgery have to do with your ID?" The guy is real scruffy lookin too, big old beard... dont they usually have people shave before a surgery? This beard had been growing for at least months... so I say "I cant take this check without an ID." They very casually shrug their shoulders and say "Guess we'll have to go someplace else" whereas usually legit people give me the cursed "How dare you even hint I would try to scam you" type of a look, while possibly starting to yell.

5) Someone pull into the pumps, and whether or not the cops were right behind him before he got there or not I dont know, but by the time I saw them, the guy, who had an older blue Honda Civic, was getting handcuffed by the cop in his car, and then the cop starts radioing for backup. I couldn't tell from a distance, but the guy looked lation and had a black woman with him, both middle aged. Another cop shows up in a minute and they put the guy in the back of one car, and the lady in the back of another, and start to search his car. They are out there for about a half hour when a county cop shows up with a search dog. From what me and my co-worker saw, they didnt find anything, but we were waiting on customers in between, not seeing every little thing. So about 5 hour later (I worked a 10-hour day, 2 to midnight, this arrest happened around 3) a large black guy who is a regular customer of ours, good guy, 18 or 19 years old asks us "so did you see someone get pulled over today?" and we are like "more like cuffed and put into the back seat of the cop car.... but yea" he says "That was my mom's boyfriend, the lady that was with him was my mom. Cops found 2 pounds of weed in his car..." and we're like "What!? we didnt see them take out no 2 pounds of weed! Wouldnt that be like a big brick of weed?" and he swears that's what happened.

Normally my town isnt like this, usually once every 3 months or so will something crazy happen. But this was all in the last 4 weeks (the spitting incedent being exactly 4 weeks ago, and numbers 4 and 5 occurring just today)

That's a walk in the prk, if you grew up in Oakland. :p

Seriously though, that's a hell of a day.

People like those are best dealt with like a zombie: Shotgun blast to the face.

Or holy water...wait, are we still talking about zombies??

I work at the admissions department of Paramount's Kings Island, and let me tell you, we get all of that, each and every single day.

1. At least two people a day are caught with some illegal drug at the main gate, at the metal detectors. (They also check bags, which where it is usually found. Most common excuse for having it? "It ain't mine!!!")

2. At least 2 people a day attempt to steal season passes at our main gate where we scan the passes. We catch them on security cameras, someone also reports it, the guy is nabbed by park security and local police before he makes it to the parking lot.

3. At least 2 people a day try to get in on a stolen pass. Little do they know what kind of record system the park uses. In that system, each season pass has all of this information:

1. Type of pass. (Gold, Regular, Child/Senior, etc.)
2. Date it was purchased.
3. Date it was processed (note that all dates include up to the second times.)
4. Who sold it to them.
5. Who processed it for them.
6. Season Pass status (Invalid for previous years, S if reported Stolen, this really tips us off, and L for lost. A few also get U for unprocessed, but that's usually just ignorance)
7. Name, address, phone number, birthdate
8. Each and every time that pass was used. (Each pass can only be used once a day. You have to get your hand stamped to return into the park. It's a security measure to stop handing passes off. People still get through, even with pictures on the cards)
9. Who scanned that pass for entrance
10. The status of that scan. (Invalid, Stolen, Etc. Useful if the person who scanned it did not report it, and thus, in deep crap.)

So as you can see, it is very easy for us to catch stolen passes, and also for us to prove to the police of such a thing.

4. There's always idiots in the park who get kicked out. They always yell "This is public property, you can't do that!!!" The cops then proceed to explain to them that this is actually private property, owned by Paramount. And if they were to return before their year-long ban was up, they would be nailed for tresspassing and sent to jail.

5. There are about 250+ knives, stunguns, etc, removed at the metal detectors each day. Now some of it is stuff you can't really blame the person for, like swiss army knives. But people who bring in switchblades? "It was to protect my family! You can't take that! I have a right to protect my family!" We of course explain to them that our parks are very secure, and that no one else is allowed weapons inside either. It's about half and half for those who stay and those who leave.

6. There is about 25+ people who try to get in on a used ticket each day. These are so blatantly obvious that a 4 year old could tell you what had happened.

7. People try to roll the hand stamps on other people's hands. Not only does the stamp dry quickly, meaning your friend has to do it right in front of the camera by the gate, but when you roll it, the number goes backwards, and also reads "VOID". Kinda hard to mess that up. (We use different numbers for each day, and we use a color stamp that glows under blacklight. The stuff costs like $80 a bottle. People try to use highlighters and stuff, never works.)

8. People try to get in with their Six Flags passes, as if we are somehow related. Uhmm.. NO!

Well I could go on and on, but yeah, I can feel for ya

heh, I know what you mean. It's only when you work in those places that you really notice all the weirdoes in society.

I had a bunch of weird clients when I worked at a gas station. Some guy started yelling and cursing as me because I wouldn't light his cigarette for free. Then there's this crazy b**** who spills gas everywhere on the ground because she's too incompetent to pump gas herself and then comes in yelling at me, as if it were my fault, and insists on not paying for it.

That's not cool. I live in an area that's always like that (San Bernardino, SavageX can tell you about it). I'm glad I don't have to work with the public, I would get myself arrested.

My little sister is a freshman in a brand new highschool (this is the first year it's open). Two weeks ago, there was a riot over something (no one can get a straight story) and about 50 kids were involved. Last week, another riot occured, involving 500+ kids. The police were called in, and tear gas was dispensed. My sister and all the other uninvolved kids trapped in their classrooms for 4 hours while all this occured. The school has been closed down for the remainder of the month (only 1 week of classes left before break anyway) and the mayor and chief of police and all sorts of other officials had a big pow-wow with the news media over the problem. We're screwed.

They shave you in the area that you have to be opened at. If he had surgery somewhere around his mouth, neck or high on the chest it probably would've gotten shaven. I think they do it so stray hairs can't fall in and get the area infected...


But yeah, you can usually tell a scammer by their reaction. You'd think they wouldn't so obvious about it though...if you're gonna buy alot then spread it around a bit. :p

Stories like this make me scared about getting a job, I just hope I don't have to get one where I have to deal much with people like that. I've heard quite a few stories from people around here of things that happen, I'm afraid I'd be too tempted to hit the idiots with a stick.

What area of Wisconsin do you live in, Snake?

Try Blockbuster at the holidays.

You get the kids trying to steal stuff since they're out of school, the drunk dads screaming about their late fee from last year, the moms with 45 kids that tear up the whole place, and the fact that everyone and their dogs (yes, it's happened) comes into the store wanting something. Ususally, the store don't have it.

Oregon, about 7 miles south of Madison.

Stuff like this kind of makes me glad I live in northwest Phoenix and don't have to put up with any of this crap. Although it is starting to go downhill...

Do you live in Derry, Snake? Because every 20 years or so...

Eh, I dont get it... but anyway, here is you colored purple in your underwear:



Remember it? I've had it saved this whole time and only got to use it once...

Yeah i remember it, it was my background for a while. You posted in a thread I made about demanding that massassi make t-shirts. Which I still demand! DEMAND!

/cries in corner wishing that he could have a massassi t-shirt.

edit - My post was referencing IT by Stephen King, possibly his best book. And every 20 years or so, IT awakens and the neighbourhood goes to Hell, basically.

do you work at a CVS? sounds liek it. I do.

CVS?? I work at Kwik Trip...

That's a good day at the movie theatre, for me.