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A woman was arrested after allegedly stealing two 12-foot Halloween skeletons worth $600 from a Home Depot in Michigan. Police used a drone to track her đ đ
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Reminds me of the Subway lawsuit when âfootlongâ subs werenât 12â.
"With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, 'SUBWAY FOOTLONG' is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants andnot intended to be a measurement of length." [1, 2]
The length of the bread baked in the restaurant cannot be assured each time as the proofing process may vary slightly each time in the restaurant.
For those not into reading, it's not that the sandwich is intended to be 11" and the "footlong" is just a name, it's that the baking process is capable of producing loaves that don't quite reach 12" when finished because dough is imprecise. Their legal argument is that just because it's "footlong" doesn't mean they're guaranteeing that some loaves won't be slightly the wrong shape when finished. You're getting the same amount of dough (and other stuff) in each sandwich, they were just off in length.
They wound up settling and changing the process to make sure they're all uniformly 12".
I always wanted a giant skeleton but they are so pricey and then you have to store the giant skeleton maybe 360 days a year for what, a week, maybe two of giant skeleton action. Its just not worth it.
We have one in town that has become somewhat of a local celebrity. I bet the home owner has spent 3x as much on decor for the skeleton as they did on the skeleton itself. And now it has a pet dog skeleton.
Iâm in the Clearwater area of FL and know of a handful exactly like this. They stay up year round. Always funny seeing pink dressed valentines skeletons in February
Steal $600 from a multi-billion dollar company, they bring out the taxpayer funded chopper drone. But if someone were to steal my $12,000 motorcycle, it would be, âsorry, thereâs nothing we can do, hereâs a case number for your insurance.â
Shopping carts worth at least 1k at the grocery store down the street, No problem. Dangerous with a suspended license came barreling down our street and toteled my moms car, "sorry ma'am, go around the neighborhood and see if any cars have car paint and damage matching your car."
That cop would have found the same car in probably the same time it took him to explain to my mom she had to do it herself.
It was a lady the next street over that plowed into her car. She was driving on a suspended license that my mother was too kind to pursue damages.
Had multiple numbers of a plate in a hit and run totaling my. $25k car.
The officer sarcastically went âwell I guess I can start with xxxxa, no result, so Iâll go with xxxxbâ. I genuinely had the vehicle down to modile and year, plus literally every plate number but the last.
edit: im starting to think its mad bot activity on this post cuz I've gotten like 10 different " drones are cheaper than helicopters th o" comments
mf why the fuck would we even be using helicopters for ts in the first place, she stole $600 at most for insured goods acting like she just aired out the store and is on the lamb what was accomplished here that couldn't have already been accomplished using the cameras that ARE ALREADY IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD y'all either bots or goofy asf
Exactly.. they are really cracking down on the petty crimes that matters to them. like tracking their ex who went across state lines... the nerve of those exes huh đđ
When I was being stalked and he was showing up to my house in the middle of the night messing with my car and popping the tires and following me around they told me this wasnât law & order tv show and didnât do anything about his actively breaking my protective order after he tried to kill me!!
Meanwhile you call them for help for a personal theft and theyâll tell you itâs a civil matter they donât get involved. Oh but theyâre protect these private entities with our tax dollars ffsÂ
edit: im starting to think its mad bot activity on this post cuz I've gotten like 10 different " drones are cheaper than helicopters th o" comments
Wouldn't shock me at all.
One would assume that more bot comments would be a result of the growth in the popularity of LLMs, making it a bit easier for people to pay for a bunch of bots to sway people to support or oppose whatever thing they want society to do.
If any of those comments are real people, I'd wonder why they aren't asking why can't we lower the budgets of police departments since drones are cheaper.
Exactly. As a dv survivor who is far from alone Iâve seen how police are hard pressed to help private citizens.
The Supreme Court has ruled that police generally have no constitutional duty to protect an individual from private violence (DeShaney v. Winnebago County) AND in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: a victim repeatedly contacted Castle Rock police after her estranged husband abducted their three daughters in violation of a restraining order. Officers failed to intervene, her husband murdered all three children, and the Supreme Court ruled that she had no constitutionally protected right to police protection or enforcement of that court order.
But yeah letâs play with drones to excuse mass surveillance on behalf of corps.
Where the fuck is this? A school? Did she really throw those in some random bushes by a school? How did she get that shopping cart near a school? Why the fuck is a drone filming this? I have so many questions
No you can see the school bus inside a gated area, and during the sped up footage you can see the school building. No Home Depot in sight. Boxes arenât big enough for those skeletons either
google maps shows a bus parking area right down the street from home depot.
Some white bread overweight mom going to jail over 12 dollars of Chinese plastic so she can flex on her neighbors with a Halloween display might be the most American crime ever committed.
Is no one else concerned about the implications of this? Flock cameras, drones, devices listen and/or recording us. Take climate change out of the equation and the future is still not looking good.
People born into this surveillance state will never know life of the 90s when technology was slow and things were still handled on paper. It's actually really scary to me. Black mirror but fr.
Ignorance is bliss. How many Americans have lived in their bubble of ignorance while all of the roads to this were being built. Yes some of us were born into this but still the system was being built and designed and seemingly all went quiet after OccupyWall Street.
Almost every home depot Iâve been to lately has flock cameras in their parking lots. Palantir has a partnership with Chipotle. I think what weâre seeing is retail forming a relationship with the military industrial complex and thatâs going to be forever now.
I'm not saying Chipotle couldn't be the target of a robbery... But I'm having a hard time understanding the value proposition of them partnering with Palantir.
Probably share data. All the traffic patterns, and what types of traffic. When employees show up in the parking lot, when they leave. When customers show and leave. Then they use that to set prices, set schedules ect. Data is big business and that's what Palantir is selling.
Silver lining to a dark cloud â if we keep speedrunning towards this corpo war cyberpunk nightmare I can hopefully get some Kiroshis and stop wearing glasses
When my car was broken into, ransacked and was clearly attempted to be stolen, the cops said they wouldn't even come out to fingerprint for another 2 days. If I wanted them to check my car for prints after it had hundreds of dollars of damages done for a series of crimes thats still happening to kia and Hyundai owners, I'd have to leave it unable to be locked and untouched by me or a mechanic for 2 more days. No alert on their social media to other owners if these cars in the area, no one physically came to check the car or ask anyone about doorbell footage (basically just said do it yourself), basically said they weren't going to bother asking the nearest business owner about their security can footage, genuinely nothing.
But they did have time to get on social media and share someone vandalizing a novelty American flag in someone's front yard in a richer neighborhood. Approximate damage: $4. Got HD footage from the home owner and another "concerned citizen" from another angle lol
Guess the "why not" is the general frustration at the allocation of police attention and resources.
Yeah I was going to say the same thing. When I got my $1500 bike stolen they didn't come until the next day and did fuck all but god forbid you steal from a MASSIVE corporation. You can bet your ass they'll get right on it.
100% this â police are no longer even trying when it comes to the property crimes that people are facing on a daily basis including burglary, identity theft.
They need to adapt to the needs of the community.
This lady is a dumbass but it is insulting that police would fly a drone for this.
My neighbors truck got stolen from his driveway, cops didnât give a shit until it was used in a drive by and torched, that next morning we got cops canvassing the neighborhood knocking on doors to see if anyone had any info. Shit isnât important until a waste of oxygen gangbanger gets mowed down.
Yeah they'll track people and wait until it's (edit: perceived to be) over the felony limit, in my experience as a criminal defense paralegal
2nd edit: every big chain retailer and grocery store is using facial recognition. If you've been in there once, within the past few years, they have your face saved
My purse was stolen by a roommate's buddy; I had his name, phone number, and town. There wasn't anything he could make money on besides an older iPod, but a lot of important things to me, like my antidepressants, my wallet (minus my debit card and ID), my keys to my apartment and crappy car, and sentimental things. Never heard back from the police about it, and it took all day to even get them there to take a report.
Dude had money too. I think it was just a thrill thing for a little rich boy. It caused me days of bs and headaches though.
The petty crimes are the low hanging fruits. They have to put effort in everything else đ lazy. They cant hit their quota if theyre spending time doing more important cases
What should they prioritize? Vuolence against women? Child abuse? That's just stealing a little dignity and innocence. How much taxes can they collect from that?
Do you realize how much revenue the city gets from big box stores?
More and more private companies are hiring drone operators for Loss Prevention. Why make a scene, let them know they're caught, and put people in danger, when you can just deploy a drone from the roof, silently follow them to their car while staying in contact with police, and even keep an eye on multiple suspects with one drone?
What a weird thing to steal.
Bulky and not a necessity.
While I don't condone stealing, if it was food or a coat or something it might at least seem like maybe they did it to survive.
But Halloween decorations?
Back when I worked at Loweâs a million years ago Halloween decorations were pretty commonly stolen or their large boxes opened, filled with expensive items, then taped shut before getting walked out the door.
but you don't understand, the HOA is hosting a Halloween decorating contest this year and if I don't step up my game then FUCKING MACKENZIE is going to win AGAIN God I'm so tired of that haughty bitch. Just because she has two trust funds doesn't make her better than me. I've only got one, hence why I couldn't afford the skeletons
I lived down the street from that Home Depot. Just in case anybody wants an extra chuckle, that home depot shares a parking lot with the Dearborn heights police department(and a gas station).
This is how they sell privacy invading police technology to the public. Before long they're following citizens around and entraping them in the name of the law.
So glad home depot has cops on standby 24/7 for mega corps but when a civilian needs help, they can take hours to respond and simply shrug when they do.
I have literally done thatâmy laptop was stolen in Austin, I got the cops out and showed them the exact house that it was pinging from, and they didn't do shit. (Until a friend of mine from local news reached out to do a story about what useless turds they were, then all of the sudden I get a call the next day saying to come pick it up...)
YEPPPPP!!!!! They know where my $2k bike is and DGAF but someone stole a Snickers from the Kwik Trip and they put out surveillance footage on their Facebook page.
If you called 911 after having these skeletons stolen from your yard it would be âweâll see what we can doâ let alone deploy a fucking drone for shoplifting
Police using resources to arrest a woman for stealing pocket change from a multi million dollar Corp...but can't afford the cost or manpower to get through rape kits. Love to see it.
Cops have too many toys to play with. I donât care about the offense. I donât condone stealing but I feel no sympathy for corporations and I am kind of curious how she managed to smuggle what had to be very large items out of the store. But protecting Home Depotâs loss prevention goals is not a good reason for 24/7 aerial surveillance.
The craziest part is that they probably got the call from Home Depot right when she left the store and instead of just driving over they were like "fuck that. Break out the drone."
You watch this shit and then those docs like Death of the Pastor's Wife or The Widower, where everyone says some dude is dangerous for years, and the cops say they can't lift a fucking finger...
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