Store Decoy
My son has come up with a fabulous idea. It's an idea borne out of frustration really.
He finds when he goes shopping, especially large department stores, he's often followed by a security guard. He's used to this now because he knows that he fits "small minded Britain's" profile as a criminal.
Funnily enough, my son said that he's seen more crime than the security guards because often while he's being closely watched, security are missing out on catching the real thieves.
He said the last person he saw shop-lifting looked as pure as Snow White. She scooped a whole batch of Impulse Body Spray into her large designer handbag and left the store unnoticed. All the while, security had their eye on the wrong person.
So my son has suggested that he go out robbing with the Snow Whites of the criminal fraternity. He said that way, they'd get away with the crime every time, simply because Security would be too busy with their eye on him!
He finds when he goes shopping, especially large department stores, he's often followed by a security guard. He's used to this now because he knows that he fits "small minded Britain's" profile as a criminal.Funnily enough, my son said that he's seen more crime than the security guards because often while he's being closely watched, security are missing out on catching the real thieves.
He said the last person he saw shop-lifting looked as pure as Snow White. She scooped a whole batch of Impulse Body Spray into her large designer handbag and left the store unnoticed. All the while, security had their eye on the wrong person.
So my son has suggested that he go out robbing with the Snow Whites of the criminal fraternity. He said that way, they'd get away with the crime every time, simply because Security would be too busy with their eye on him!

















5 Comments:
When I was a lot younger about 13, I would steal all the time with a couple of boys who looked - dare I say - more the part & I got away with. I've changed my ways but I'd like to say that your observation is right. Security Guard and even the police have a pre-conceieved idea of what a criminal looks like young, casual wear like tracksuits and trainers and often ehtnic and it made my live when I was theiving very very easy.
I never got caught.
Funny and serious at the same time.
Last year sometime round Christmas my son got accused of shop lifting (they even tried to frisk him) in a Japanese boutique in Soho; they had a sale on and I was in a frenzy in the changing room, he was minding his own business sitting on a sofa playing gameboy and looking after our shopping bags when two big security guards came up and told the child to get up and empty the bags out. I heard all this going on from the changing room and I popped out like a cork, going crazy mad lioness-protecting-cub on them. Everyone ended up apologising to me profusely, possibly because they just wanted me to calm down and get out of the shop.
My son was 10 years old. To these people he wasn't a child he was a stereotype. The thing that cut me is that our boys grow up feeling the mistrust of people all around them.
Rose
Rose, your comment touched me. I know I've written a humorous slant on this issue but just remembering how my children have felt in the past and even present day, it makes me very angry all over again. But if I don't laugh, I'll cry.
August
You are right August, humour is a powerful thing.
Fight the power :)
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