Posted on 04/14/2012 7:43:38 AM PDT by Inspectorette
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police are investigating another flash mob theft by a group of teens, this time at Nordstrom at the Lloyd Center.
Last week, a group of 16 teens converged on a Southeast Portland convenience store and stole merchandise and then ran out. Police are still investigating the incident.
Friday's incident happened just after 8 p.m. Police interviewed employees of the store who said a group of approximately 10 African-American male teenagers were in the store and began taking items and putting them in bags before they ran out the southwest doors of the store toward Northeast 9th Avenue.
Police who checked the area recovered some of the stolen clothing, but did not find the teens, who are ages 13-19 years old and all wearing hats and hoodies with their faces covered.
Cherise Vanhooser, who works at Lloyd Center, wasn't surprised at the incident.
"Kids steal all the time at the Lloyd center," she said. "I mean, I'm constantly dealing with it at work. I know a lot of the other managers are. It's just a constant problem. You always have to have someone on the floor because you can't trust anybody."
Police said they will work with Nordstrom officials to get surveillance video to help their investigation.
Anyone with information about this theft should email information to Portland Police.
Those darn “teens” with their hula hoops and dungarees and souped up hot rods and be-bop music.
But, but, but, but we were told hoodies are an indication of nothing (besides not wanting to be identified whether walking through a gated community or surveillance video.)
Article didn’t say whether or not they yelled “This is for Trayvon”.
I wonder if these kids were Amish?
Hoodies don’t steal things, people steal things. ;o)
“You always have to have someone on the floor because you can’t trust anybody.”
Actually, there are a lot of people you can trust. Just not “African-American male teenagers.”
I last shopped at Lloyd Center in the summer of 1965. At the time, it featured a store that sold “toys for men,” as the sign read. These “toys” consisted of fishing gear and guns. I’ll bet the store isn’t there today.
BTW, if the media is concerned about actually identifying who these thugs are and terrified of ‘profiling’, why do they even identify their age demographic (teens).
Why not just call them ‘a group of humans’ or something?
LOL!
If I’d pulled crap like this as a teen, I wouldn’t have the guts to go home ever again ‘cuz I know my dad would’ve been waiting for me with a switch.
When I first got my drivers license, he flat out told me that if I ever wound up in jail, not to bother calling him to bail me out.
He wasn’t kidding.
Lo and behold, I was straight as an arrow and annoyingly law abiding.
Go figger.
"Police interviewed employees of the store who said a group of approximately 10 African-American male teenagers were in the store and began taking items and putting them in bags before they ran out the southwest doors of the store toward Northeast 9th Avenue."
The “hoodies” are taking liberalism out back and shooting it dead. While our gated community secure building elitist liberals continue on with the war on white people and the Lowry’s of the world prostrate themselves in agreement of the evils of white’s “racism” the campaign to turn the rest of America into a three thousand mile wide Detroit continues at breakneck speed.
Those darn “teens” with their hula hoops and dungarees and souped up hot rods and be-bop music............................ Yup, it all gets down to Elvis and Rock and Roll. We were warned. :)
So true. After all, the unabomber wore a hoodie, and as far as we know, he didn't boost skittles and tea from the local 7-11.
Soon they’ll start ringing doorbells, yelling “Trayvon calling!” and then run.
They must have come in from Mt. Hoodie.
It’s happening in cities across the country.
Too specific.
Homo sapiens is less accusatory.
Maybe because they're not "human".
Guns don't kill flash mob raging teenage black male thiefs, people do. ;-)
A long hot summer is right. The left and the race-baitors have been itching for a return to the 60’s style racial riots for some time now.
No argument from 0 - it will give him a chance to see how NDAA works out.
Yeah, but “no profiling” remember?
It’s just plain unfair, racist, illegal, and down right selfish to not let bored minority teens have what they want.
Reminds me of stories I heard about the Chinese Cultural Revolution where Red Guard members could pretty much take anything they wanted by evoking Mao's name. That way the Great Helmsman could keep the merchant classes cowed & in line.
First there was a smile and a hand shake.
Then there was surveillance video.
Then there was RFID gates at all entrances.
Then there was a guy who checked bags.
Pretty soon you won’t be allowed in or out of a store without being checked first, in a controlled area reminiscent of a TSA checkpoint that raises the cost of all goods 25%, because a bunch of asshats can’t go a day without making someone else’s life hell.
I’m wondering who is going to have their fill first. The takers, or the providers. Either way a bunch of mangy animals are going to be put out of their misery and the whole nation will benefit from the cleansing.
Not that I’m bitter, or jaded, or cynical. Nothing like that.
Just "Obama's sons" and "Holder's people" achieving social justice.
Mutants would be more like it.
No video needed......
"did not find the teens... all wearing hats and hoodies"
Just how do they know this?
Derbyshire principle 10(e)
Still waiting for an all white flash mob of thieves.Has anyone ever heard of one?
Sounds familliar! We bent the heck out of some of the rules, but nothing that would get us in jail (at the time).
Police who checked the area recovered some of the stolen clothing, but did not find the teens, who are ages 13-19 years old and all wearing hats and hoodies with their faces covered.It's probably too expensive to keep a group of thugs handy to take care of biz as these little vandals exit, but having entrance doors that lock down to prevent entry by a suddenly assembling group of hoods wouldn't be that bad.
My family credo was that nobody owed us *nuthin’*.
You went out and got what you wanted or you shut up and did without.
That’s why God gave us hind legs to stand up on.
“Go figger.”
Our Dads were there for us, no matter what. Their “dads” are AWOL. Big diff between you, me and them.
He was a prison guard so I didn’t “bend” much....;D
When I was 15, I hooked school *once* and naturally, as I started to get on the bus, both the vice principal [who was on a first name basis with my mom] *and* the truant officer happened to be driving by.
I was royally screwed.
On “Senior Hook Day”, I was the only senior in school.
The only funny part about the hooking was that I got five days detention....*in the school library*.
Yeah.
“Tortures of the damned” for book-wormy me, that was....LOL
Yeah but he still would have let me rot in jail....LOL
Expect incidents of looting at stores and malls. These looting sprees will include suburban malls. The gangs will have vehicles. They will have safe-houses in the suburbs, thanks to the Section 8 housing program. The actual shoplifters will be unarmed teens, but will have armed backup hanging around in case they get into trouble (in any robbery, never assume that the visible robber is the only bad guy in the place). They will be so numerous that the police will not want to deal with them.
The cost of these robberies will be passed along to regular customers, and will have the same net effect as their robbing you and me individually.
You were lucky enough to have had a family that cared about your morality. I didn't, but it turned out to not matter. Throughout my long life I had the good sense to obey laws and more importantly, my own moral compass. As a consequence, I have no record of any law-breaking nor any moral transressions. I sleep well at night.
These cretins described in the article, on the other hand, probably had no familial guidance, nor the good sense to walk the straight and narrow. There is no hope for them, nor those like them. We'll just have to defend ourselves from them.
Indoor shopping malls are going to go the way of the Dodo Bird.
I haven’t set foot in one for years, and I don’t plan to ever go to one again.
second such mob of same type of people in two day in Portland area. First was a convenience store.
Ah yes, function of the community organizers to train the stupid Holder people to come to riot upon call. The trainign sessions need to be listed so in October the complete list of training cities and dates can be issued to the BBC (no domestic propaganda outlet would dare expose the truth of the commie thugs training these fools to be cannon fodder for the ‘black revolution) and other alternate presses. Is some freeper keeping a list of these training sessions?
My dad gave my brother and me the exact same talk and when my brother got arrested he didn’t call. My folks drove by my brothers truck parked on the side of the highway and figured he was in jail - sure enough he was. I just never bothered to get in trouble.
Nordstrom's = Corporation
Corporations = 'Da Man
Supreme Court = Corporations are People
Flash Mob Loots Corporation = Hate Crime
Look for the next thing to be a guy standing by the door demanding people with hoodies take the hoods down and stare directly into the video camera (which will also take retina prints.
It's called "Congress."
That’s one reason they use the Mother F’in word a lot. They think you may be their daddy. Could be anybody. But I know they are not mine. If I were their daddy, they wouldn’t be so ugly. But then again, what cornere was their mother working?
All joking aside, it was the start of “teenagers” having an identity separate from children or adults and having time on their hands rather than having to work to support the family. Obviously greasers wouldn’t have behaved in such a shameful way, but I believe today’s yutes are a direct result of the rise of “teenagers” and removing God from our society.
Sounds familliar! We bent the heck out of some of the rules, but nothing that would get us in jail (at the time).
It’s just a matter of time before a teen flash mob attempts to steal from the wrong business owner.
Eventually, some fed up entrepreneur is going to let the mob gather in his business, turn off the surveillance cameras, bar the doors, bring out his guns, go to work on the crowd and then let the chips fall where they may.
Think of Bernie Goetz on Steroids.
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