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Strange point, but it's a strange argument
If it was staged, they'd have stolen a Chapman guitar - as the publicity would be good for trade.....
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It's only 4 minutes' walk, right 'round the block from the shop!
bingefeller said:
@bingefeller You all clearly weren't paying attention your The History Of Chappers lessons!
"Stick" was a member of Monkey Lord, an early Rob Chapman band.
Looks more like a wallet on the left and a phone on the right than a pack of cigs and a lighter, but as I don't smoke, I dunno.Then again I wasnt allowed to ‘restrain’ them, which included blocking their way out.
This was all brought about after a colleague Lpo from a different store chased someone out and the theif turned around and stabbed him.
We sell cd’s and dvd’s...
How stupid eh.
Since then the companies made redundant all our loss prevention except for select london stores, and instead delegated loss prevention to us mere sale assistants (what I got demoted to as opposed to redundancy).
We often get shitty complaints when we ‘watch’ people who clearly look dodgy..
Hell, what can you do.
I imagine its different for a company owner such as Lee though, but for my minimum wage I wouldnt risk even asking a thief to bring it back lol.
After most of them, in our store atleast, are armed with knives which they use to cut wrap tags or spider tags off of stock..
No way am I risking it being used on me!
Which makes me think if Lee was around he would have told no other staff to give chase, and gone himself.
I’ll take the Andertons event at face value and that.
I doubt they would stage that. No real need to, and I can’t see the gains they’d get for it. Both Lee & Rob know full well that they, like many other personalities and businesses, divide opinion anyway, so I can’t see them being that stupid to harm their business and reputation further with the people who dislike em.
Any company surely only wants to create and bring in more customers.
Which as some mentioned, this could be a stunt to do, but it clearly creates a divide.
I havent yet read the link someone posted previously, which I’ll do in a min!
Up here in Manchester, Sounds Great Music just had a couple of Eastmans lifted in the exact same way. There's a rash of it at the moment.
Does anyone really think Lee Anderton, who's built the business from a no-mark guitar shop in the 80's to the behemoth it is today, would deliberately and calculatedly want to risk:
1) Looking like a lying twat on social media
2) Looking like his shop's a soft target for scrotes
I do think it lowers the community though.
Which is a shame.
Every cloud, and all that.
Huh! A blatantly face-ist remark
Rather than folk queuing up here to accuse Andertons of staging this I think credit is due to Lee Anderton who had the bottle to chase the guy down. As @skunkwerx said, most these scumbags carry knives (or worse) these days and will use them if cornered.
Just don't stop, not even for traffic lights.
That's not true .
I work for "your force" and every shoplifting that is reported IS recorded & investigated .
Also having crimes reported via a website, not turning up for cctv and having cases closed due to lack of evidence when the cctv hasn’t even been collected yet isn’t investigating.
If it's reported its recorded and then filed under not enough evidence.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Oh its on Facebook local news groups ... yeah that must be true then .....
Meanwhile I'll keep doing what I've done for the last 18 years ...not that I know what Police in this area do or don't do ..oh no .
because a knobber has written something different on Facebook .
Wow .
If a shoplifting (or any crime) is in progress or someone has been detained . Police will be assigned and attend . Thems the facts .