Posted on 10/02/2023 8:19:13 AM PDT by grundle
Disturbing surveillance footage out of the Bay Area in California shows a serial shoplifter setting a store clerk’s hair on fire with stolen lighter fluid after he tried to stop the alleged thief from stealing.
Suraj — the store clerk who declined to reveal his last name out of fear of being targeted again — is seen on video tussling with Kendall Burton before Burton doused Suraj’s head in lighter fluid on Sept. 22 at the Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante, according to a video obtained by CBS News.
In the video, another worker is seen rushing to Suraj’s rescue with a baseball bat seconds before flames consume the clerk’s head after Burton ignites the fluid during the confrontation.
“I tried to cover his hand, but I don’t know. I don’t remember. He just lit the fire on me, you know,” Suraj told the outlet.
“I just rushed to the restroom, and I just splashed water on my face.”
Suraj — who has been working at the store for the past five years — said he and other workers at the Bay Area store deal with shoplifters regularly, but nothing of this magnitude has ever happened.
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It is time to go medieval on these shoplifters. With an emphasis on the DIE part
I don’t know about you ?
I hate these current design of lighters.
Back in the 80s and 90s it was easy to flip and get a flame.
Then the safety police came along and ‘child protected them’
Now I can’t without pinching myself, get a flame.
GARBAGE thanks to excessive safely laws.
> Bay Area in California
Is there any point where they will vote against the criminals and for law?
Immolation by diversity. It’s America strength. A little tough on convenience store workers though.
It is time for an eye for an eye.
Please, stop risking your lives for a retail job. Just stop. Some store clerks have been killed when they tried to stop a shoplifter.
“He is being held without bail.”
Sad to say, given this is California, that kind of surprised me. /no sarc
One of these days a shop owner is just going to start shooting shopliters and the cameras will be conveniently “broken.”
These robbers are getting sicker and sicker. It’s bad enough to try to rob a store, but to do something like this is outrageous.
Thank you for the link.
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