This is a harbinger of doom:
California smash-and-grab crew steals hammers, tools from Home Depot
California smash-and-grab thieves were back at it on Friday — with one crew hitting up a Home Depot to steal sledgehammers, crowbars and other tools, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the Lakewood store’s entire hammer section had been cleared out by the mob of eight during the robbery, which took place at around 7:45 p.m. local time, Fox 11 reported.
Looters looting tools used do more looting.
There is something strangely poetic about that.
Clearly this is a sign that looters don’t fear the law and they are going to increase the intensity of their actions.
You have to question the intelligence of anyone operating a retail outfit in California – they’re playing “Robbery Roulette” hoping they’re the last to get smash ‘n’ grabbed.
Some locales are worse than others, certainly, but there has to be a point at which the potential profits are outweighed by the losses and/or the expenses to minimize the losses. At which point the smart move is to just walk away and do everything by mail order from Nevada.
Then, of course, UPS and FedEx trucks will start getting hijacked for the booty.
But did they steal the gas powered masonry saw?
$950 dollars is a lot of hammers and crowbars. I bet they massed out before they priced out on that shoplifting incident!
It is nice to see criminal entrepreneurs making the critical capital investments necessary to improve their criminal productivity. That is the future of California!
dang, this is not ten minutes from my house, and what’s worse is there’s a Lakewood police station almost directly across the street from this Home Depot
Undescribed mobs of looters hit TWO! (2!) Best Buy Stores in the Twin Cities on Friday. The Burnsville store was hit by about twenty undescribed looters, and the Maplewood store was hit by more than eight looters. The attacks were almost simultaneous, so it was not the same crew.
Maplewoood is a suburb of Saint Paul. Burnsville is actually an outer suburb about twenty miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul and on the south side of the Minnesota River. If they are hitting Burnsville, then no store in the entire metro area is immune to mass shoplifting mobs.