Posted on 12/27/2007 3:34:15 PM PST by ShadowDancer
Fishmonger Fired For Tackling Shoplifter
POSTED: 5:35 pm EST December 27, 2007
UPDATED: 5:49 pm EST December 27, 2007
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A Ypsilanti man wants his job back at an Ann Arbor grocery store after he was fired because he tried to stop a shoplifter on Sunday.
SoundOff: Who went too far: Whole Foods or Scholtz?
John Scholtz said he lost his job as a fishmonger at a Whole Foods Market in Ann Arbor after he knocked a suspected shoplifter to the ground and detained him.
Scholtz was fired on Monday.
"Our policy is clear and listed in the employee booklet," said Kate Klotz, a Whole Foods spokeswoman.
"The fact that the employee in question touched the suspect is grounds for termination."
Scholtz said he was acting as a private citizen and not as a Whole Foods employee.
"The fact that I worked at the store at (the time of the robbery) is coincidental," he told The Ann Arbor News.
"If I had went over to the book store on my break and they were being ripped off, I would have helped them."
I think it totally rules that someone still uses the word “fishmonger.”
That’s too bad, I shop at Whole Foods allot.
I guess I’ll have to find another place to do business.
Na Na Na Na Naaaa! Can’t touch me!
Free food for everyone at Whole Foods!!!!
“Fishwife for women practicioners”
The coventional wisdom would be that he should have notified the loss prevention professional who also works at that location. The problem is that there are so few professionals in loss prevention...
Sure, I'd like to see every thief get his a$$ kicked but this ain't Gotham and this guy ain't Batman
By the way, love your tagline...or should I say: I can dig it.
Fishmongers? There are fishmongers??
I guess they would frown upon guns also...
So if I shoplift at The Bunny Ranch, do I get tackled by a whoremonger?
If you shoplift at the White House will you be tackled by a warmonger?
Even the heavily pierced and tattooed staff is less offensive than the effete liberal a-holes shopping there with the "NO 'W'" stickers on their BMWs.
The few times that I venture in there to find something that's not available elsewhere, I feel the need to immediately fly home and take a shower.
I bet his real name is Polonius.
(Obscure trivia.)
ROLF!
Interestingly, there aren’t a lot of words ending in monger.
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=1&Keyword=monger&Language=ENG
“Sure, I’d like to see every thief get his a$$ kicked but this ain’t Gotham and this guy ain’t Batman”
If that happened at a Whole Foods, they’d have to bring in grief counselors and close for a day as the employee witnesses recovered from seeing such a “brutal and inhumane” act.
“So if I shoplift at The Bunny Ranch, do I get tackled by a whoremonger?”
Strangely, “fishmonger” was another term for a pimp back in the Middle Ages — hence, Will Shakespear’s use of the word.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
On the other end of the spectrum, the female workers are kind of scary. I think they are all related to Janet Reno in some way.
I don't usually buy meat at Whole Foods because it is so outrageously expensive. I usually get my meat at the butcher shop anyway. But when I do buy meat at Whole Foods, I make sure I take it down a check-out aisle with a male cashier. Because the female cashiers give you dirty looks as they are all apparently vegetarians. The male cashiers don't seem to mind the meat so much rolling down their aisle. And I notice they usually check me out as well. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying there's not a whole lot of Bush voters in that establishment.
Is that a tuna in your pants? or are you just happy to see me?
That would be an accurate assessment of an assault by the agent of the ladies who work there.
Hahahaha.
I've never been to Whole Foods, the closest one to me is in Ann Arbor. Is it simply overpriced or are there nice imported foods, etc. also?
Well it is overpriced but the quality of the food is excellent. You just have to get used to the clientèle. I’m talking hippie-dippie to the extreme. Picture a casting call for the Electric Kool-Aid Test. Or a look-alike contest for Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin. Makes the average Starbucks crowd look like an NRA meeting.
That explains it’s presence in Ann Arbor.
You can’t kick his ass until he leaves the store without proof of purchase! Then Jump’em!
Well, they’d have to fire me too, I can’t stand by and watch a thief!
Shoulda' whacked him with a salmon.
Sure. They sell cockles and mussels.
Alive alive-O.
LOL! Darn near incomprehensible to my mid-western mind!
I used to do work in a bunch of Whole Foods here in MA.
I still have nightmares...
I can count on one hand how many times I've been to WF and that's only because they were the only ones who had the needed product. I despise the place with it's freaky liberal customers. I can't stand even driving through the parking lot.
Might be one for the not-a-ping list.
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The last time I was there... at the check out stand, my wife was jumping around like a crack baby!
I didn't know until we got to the car that she was shielding me from a fat freak with a 'F George W' tee shirt.
She knew that I would have made a scene.
Unfortunately, if you can get through the herbal soaps and crystal health pendants, they have some really good meat and seafood that you can't find elsewhere.
I limit my trips to about twice a year... otherwise you'd see me on America's Most Wanted!
I'm still chuckling at "fish...tackle".
I’d vote for you!
I go to the one in Bedford, MA mainly to buy fruit.
No, not that kind of fruit.
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