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> "All across Canada, stores are dealing with an unprecedented
> rise in theft affecting business and putting staff at risk.
> https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/annual-shoplifting-
> losses-top-250000-for-cambridge-grocer-6464406
> https://bbs.lc/kj5hY

I was thrilled a couple Christmases ago when I was shaking bells for the 
Sallies outside my neighbourhood Fresho, & heard a commotion & saw what
looked  like some older youth wrestling their way out the door, & two chased
two across the parking lot, one tackling another, causing the tacklee's
glasses & phone  togo flying as his face slammed into cold wet blacktop.

I shrugged, as kids gotta be kids, but then a bit later a staff member 
explained that was a takedown of a shoplifter.  Management always has
security  around the holidays, but this year they paid extra for take down
service  (mostly they're hands-off, if they can't simply get the thief to
cooperate with words and a compelling grip alone)

I cheered & praised the store's management all month! Simple nabbing of the
too slow is no deterrent, as they think it;'s a fun adventure to be
handcuffed,  perp-walked, & fingerprinted, only to be released to be in
another store doing  same within the hour. . .

Painful takedown sets a more memorable deterrent (oh, no, I might get hurt if 
I'm a jackass thief!)

Back in the day, before our time, I'm sure, a shoplifter got caught by a 
proprietor, taken out back & had a careful(non-maiming) beating administered.

Kid ran home crying; parents got the truth out of him & gave him another 
beating or two, one for the crime & another for embarrassing the family.

Now, though, if the proprietor even squeezes a tiny bit too hard in grabbing 
the kid, he's liable to be arrested!

I'd like to see more of the older way in play. . . but beatings within reason -
- painful, but not maiming. . . Diotto for parenting. . . loving discipline is 
not the same as angry abuse! I'm thankful i was lovingly disciplined as a 
kid==yeah, it hurt, but not as much as prison beatings might have if I'd
grown  up into an unchecked criminal like so many are nowadays. . .

I was a petty thief/shoplifter as a kid, but knew better & outgrew the nasty 
habit.  Now, if I want something I can't afford I either choose to not want
it  that much, or to save up for it. . . I'm in a rich province in a rich
country -
- I have no cause to be actually hungry enough to try justifying shoplifting 
food. (As I once fooled myself into doing as a homeless(99% personal choice) 
teen.)

I heard-tell of a story of the Toronto mayor physically attacking a 
hoarder/vendor of Covid shorted necessities & was quite pleased to hear it.

Much better feeling than when the Alberta premier drunkenly harangued some 
homeless people at a soup kitchen. . .

Some people are put into poverty/homelessness through society's lacks &
deserve empathy & help -- others, however are clearly greedy or lazy, &
deserve nothing but contempt. Sadly too many do-gooder organisations &
lobbyists make it hard  for the average person to know this difference.

I'm thankful that the same farther who bruised by rear end with a leather
belt  as needed, also taught me to think for myself & to dig deeper for truth,
as  needed.

Not all who claim to be an ally or friend are. . .

I'd like to see more meatballs sentenced to public canings & the newsmedia
stop giving them notoriety -- I'd like to see a headline like, "Some cowardly
piece  of human garbage attacked a senior in the park yesterday. Police are
asking  anyone who knows anything to contact them anonymously as a good
citizen who  cares about their community."

Make it a feel good choice to cooperate with one's community's police instead 
of a "look at me" infamy as they currently report it. . .

Or a headline like, "Some loser defaced the bridge with spray-paint in the 
night. City staff were out scrubbing it early, ensuring commuters wouldn't
have to see the evidence of such a useless twat being in our community."

Kind of takes the so-called glory out of it, eh?

I'm working on getting myself deeper in with the local media to hopefully 
eventually broach this idea to the editors in control, as an editorial 
personality to take. . .

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