I made a citizens arrest at a hobby shop in Rochester NH.

[G Paine]

Or tried to sell it for drug money. As for testifying, probably they will do a juvinal court plea bargin and it will never see the inside of the court room.

Good you stepped up, Jesse. $85 is a big hit for a small business like a hobby shop.

[Packers#1]

Great work, Jesse. Good thing you caught that kid, he'd probably have just dumped the stuff later.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Way to go Jess. Many times getting nailed at a young age will make them think several times before trying it again. Voice of experience.

[loathar]

Way to go Jesse!!

I recently yelled at a couple of illegals that were stuffing pairs of jeans under their coats. (in 90 degree weather!) They dropped the stuff and left the store rather quickly.

I HATE thieves!!!

[lvanhen]

GOOD JOB JESS - WE NEED MORE LIKE YOU!!

[jwhitten]

 

So what you're sayin is that the punk'll be takin the 0-5-0 to the bone yard..? 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

[Randall_Roberts]

Well done.  The world needs more people willing to stand up to criminals if we ever expect crime to diminish.

[CSXDixieLine]

Very cool...thanks so much for doing something instead of just watching! You really did a huge service to the hobby shop and even more so by not accepting the gift certificates. I think a significant amount of crime occurs just because the perps are counting on nobody doing anything even if they are witnessed in the act. Jamie

[Railphotog]

Way to go!  Thank you!

 

 

[Lillen]

Good work Jess. The world needs people who are willing to step up and say something.

 

Magnus

[markpierce]

Good deed, Red Horse.  We all need to look out for each other.

Mark

[Rotorranch]

Pilfering is a big hit to small business owners...I should know, as I was one, and it can turn into pretty substantial losses. We ended each year with a couple grand worth of missing merchandise.

Hopefully the kid learned his lesson.

Good for you, Jess!

BTW...got pics of the owner?

Rotor

[Teditor]

Good on ya mate!

Not expecting/taking a reward is also very honourable, hopefully it will teach him some sort of lesson, but I doubt it.

Happy modelling.

Teditor. 

[Red Horse]

While visiting a hobby shop I watched as a teen ager was filling his book bag with all kinds of stuff, he was trying to impress his 2 looser buddies, well I was in the place with my Emt partner Bob (we were spending a day off together) I had enough of this Jack *** so when he went to exit the store with his book bag stuffed with the stolen goods, my partner and I grabbed him (I spent many years earning a living as a loss prevention officer) and boy was that punk surprised, his two buddies left him and ran off, neither of them were seen taking anything.

The crook had $83.00 worth of stolen goods when it was added up by the police.

I held the kid for police, wrote up a shoplifting report that the store had and off in cuffs he went, the stores owner tried to give us both a $50.00 gift certificate which we both turned down, after all we were trying to save the store owner money and not cost her, besides, she sure was pretty....well, she was.

So now when the kid gets a court date we will have to go and testify, so what, it was worth it, and I'd do it again.

That was my excitement yesterday.