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2022-10-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Shoplifter shoves 82-year-old Home Depot worker to ground after he tries to stop thief wheeling a cart full of power tools out of North Carolina store
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An unidentified Home Depot worker, 82, was violently shoved to the ground by a thief on Tuesday in Hillsborough, North Carolina

  • The victim was working the outside station booth in what appears to be the garden area when the thief rolled by with nearly $850 in merchandise

  • When he approached the suspect, who was also not identified, the man violently shoved him to the ground, causing him to hit his head

  • The man did sustain injuries, police said, but the extent is unknown

  • The suspect is still at large and the police are asking for the public's help
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-21 08:16|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1804 views ]  Top

1 Shocking ?
Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-21 09:03||   2022-10-21 09:03|| Front Page Top

2 Shocking that the elderly gentleman survived the encounter with the little savage
Posted by Snaling Noodleman2216 2022-10-21 09:27||   2022-10-21 09:27|| Front Page Top

3 The Mail is easily shocked and horrified. Especially when moments are involved. One imagines they must keep a cardiologist on retainer.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-21 12:10||   2022-10-21 12:10|| Front Page Top

4 You go to all the trouble to fill a cart and chose Ryobi?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-10-21 12:17||   2022-10-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

5 Those Ryobi are pretty decent tools in my opinion. Also I doubt a thief knows a whole lot about tools, that would require working with them.
Posted by Chris 2022-10-21 12:20||   2022-10-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

6  One imagines they must keep a cardiologist on retainer.

Snark of the day! If not a cardiologist, at least a fainting couch for when the headline writers get the vapors.
Posted by SteveS 2022-10-21 12:23||   2022-10-21 12:23|| Front Page Top

7 Definitely SOTD at #3! 👍
Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-21 12:36||   2022-10-21 12:36|| Front Page Top

8 Good one, tw.
Posted by Matt 2022-10-21 12:39||   2022-10-21 12:39|| Front Page Top

9 By today’s standards Ryobe ain’t half bad. I’d still go with Dewalt or Milwaukee, but Dewalt and Milwaukee ain’t Dewalt or Milwaukee anymore.
Posted by Lowspark 2022-10-21 13:07||   2022-10-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

10 I got rid of all my DeWalt when I moved, bought new Ryobi, have been completely satisfied. They are still adding new products all the time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-21 13:39||   2022-10-21 13:39|| Front Page Top

11 It’s all chinaman bullshit nowadays.
Posted by Lowspark 2022-10-21 14:11||   2022-10-21 14:11|| Front Page Top

12 Nobody is going to pay $775.00 for a cordless drill made at union scale in the USA. DoD might pay that price, but they would still demand Chinese spy tech built into it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-21 14:20||   2022-10-21 14:20|| Front Page Top

13 Odds are he found the closest display and scooped a bunch into the cart without thinking about quality, brand, or use.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-10-21 17:07||   2022-10-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

14 Ryobi and Milwaukee recently displaced Dewalt in all the end caps at Homo Depot...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-21 17:07||   2022-10-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

15 I’d gladly pay $775 for a cordless drill that I knew my great grandchildren would pass on to their children. I inherited my maternal grandparents’ in which I live toady. The A/C window unit from the late 60s or so finally played out three years ago. The replacement lasted two years. It’s replacement will be replaced next Spring before it gets hot again. Quality is absolute shit these days. Don’t get me started on refrigerators/deep freezers or automobiles/parts. Blood pressure gets high enough on tools day-to-day.
Posted by Lowspark 2022-10-21 18:53||   2022-10-21 18:53|| Front Page Top

16 *grandparents’ house
**today
Posted by Lowspark 2022-10-21 18:57||   2022-10-21 18:57|| Front Page Top

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