[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

a shoplifter with a crew?




Somehow I dont think so.

The poor shoplifter looked so shocked he had no idea what was happening so on this I will agree but that shopowner has now put a huge target on his back. Surely he cant think he can put up a vid on yotube for the whole world to see showing what a badass he is? I know people who would look at that vid and now consider that shop a challenge they cant turn down. Let hope you''re right though and slapping people about and posting it on youtube does deters people from shoplifting at his store. I doubt it.

[GiRTh]

‘I'll slap the ******* out of your face’: Shocking video of slap attack on suspected shoplifter in east London leads to arrest

A man has been arrested after a shocking video of a supermarket worker launching an astonishing attack on a suspected shoplifter went viral.

The video appears to show a staff member at a branch of Costcutter in east London repeatedly slapping the man in the head while hurling abuse at him, after accusing him of stuffing goods into his bag.

The footage, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, shows the attacker casually taking the suspected thief aside and asking him to open his bag - before suddenly striking him out of nowhere.

He lands 11 blows as the startled man stumbles around the shop - while warning him the store is “not a ********** ordinary shop” like Sainsbury's or Tesco.

“You ever steal again I'll slap the ******* out of your face,” he says before adding: “I will ******* you up personally, you understand?”

The video was posted on Friday and watched thousands of times before the original footage was deleted from YouTube.

Claims have since surfaced that the victim was a homeless pensioner, though they have not been verified.

A still from the video shows the man on the left being hit (Picture: YouTube) Police announced today that they were alerted to the video, filmed in Newham, on Saturday and have since arrested a man in his 20s on suspicion of common assault.

Officers added that no allegation of assault has been made.

Costcutter condemned the attack and said it had immediately referred the matter to police.

It claimed the man was not in fact an employee but a relative of the store owner.

Writing on Facebook, the convenience store company said: “We are shocked by the events shown in this video.

“Having spoken with the store owner, he has told us that he is equally appalled and explained that one of his relatives who was not an employee took matters into his own hands when the owner was absent.

“While it is not possible for the shopkeeper to take any direct action with regards the person shown in the video, we immediately contacted the police to ask them to investigate this incident further.”

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Brilliant. Justice works both ways for sure.

Good on Costcutters to condemn the attack. So it wasnt the guys own shop at all. He definitely deserves a beatin now.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Such a tough guy eh? LMFAO Justice is meted out by your hand eh? But I bet its not.

But you are the one also saying how much the shopowner (or whoever it is) needs a beating and that you'd like to see a group of people come for him with baseball bats how is that any less 'tough guy' and 'meting out justice with your own hands'

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by MTVN

But you are the one also saying how much the shopowner (or whoever it is) needs a beating and that you'd like to see a group of people come for him with baseball bats how is that any less 'tough guy' and 'meting out justice with your own hands'

HE does need some kind of repercussion to show he cant behave kike that. I also mentioned that violence leads to more violence. Thats what I was hinting at and in this case I thinlk it would be justificed

I dont start threads and post vids of people acting like badasses then praise them. So no not at all the same.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by MTVN

But you are the one also saying how much the shopowner (or whoever it is) needs a beating and that you'd like to see a group of people come for him with baseball bats how is that any less 'tough guy' and 'meting out justice with your own hands'

Fighting violence with even worse violence is apparently the best answer

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

HE does need some kind of repercussion to show he cant behave kike that. I also mentioned that violence leads to more violence. Thats what I was hinting at and in this case I thinlk it would be justificed

I dont start threads and post vids of people acting like badasses then praise them. So no not at all the same.

People could just as easily say that the shoplifter needs some kind of repercussion to show that he can't behave like that?

You're still arguing that justice should be taken into someone's own hands rather than it being dealt with in the correct way by the proper authorities - the exact thing you were mocking everyone else for saying

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by MTVN

People could just as easily say that the shoplifter needs some kind of repercussion to show that he can't behave like that?

You're still arguing that justice should be taken into someone's own hands rather than it being dealt with in the correct way by the proper authorities - the exact thing you were mocking everyone else for saying

The shoplifter got his repercussion. I say I see two assholes who need to be taught a lesson where as many people only see one.

I never ever argued that justice should be taken into his own hands. I say by posting a vid of himself acting like a badass this guy has let himself open to more violence.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Fighting violence with even worse violence is apparently the best answer

But you argued it was right to slap the shoplifter.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

But you argued it was right to slap the shoplifter.

No i didn't? I said I don't blame him for doing so, I said quite a few times that it probably wasn't the right thing for him to do

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Liam-

No i didn't? I said I don't blame him for doing so, I said quite a few times that it probably wasn't the right thing for him to do

It definitely wasnt the right thing to do as now look what has happened.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

It definitely wasnt the right thing to do as now look what has happened.

Right? the police are speaking to him, which is right, I don't quite understand the point you're attempting to make, considering you're the one now saying he should be gang attacked by the guy and a few of his friends with bats

[Amy Jade]

So glad the guy doing the attacking is being punished.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

It definitely wasnt the right thing to do as now look what has happened.

..the police are investigating because of the vid being posted ..?..

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Right? the police are speaking to him, which is right, I don't quite understand the point you're attempting to make, considering you're the one now saying he should be gang attacked by the guy and a few of his friends with bats

Why not? He thinks he can slap people about then how we gonna show him that he cant? I dont encourage it but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened and I certainly wouldn't be sympathetic to the store worker at all.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

[center]‘I'll slap the ******* out of your face’: Shocking video of slap attack on suspected shoplifter in east London leads to arrest

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Brilliant. Justice works both ways for sure.

Good on Costcutters to condemn the attack. So it wasnt the guys own shop at all. He definitely deserves a beatin now.

...see, what made me feel uneasy as well is that it wasn't just that he did it...(and apparently wasn't even the shop owner..)..it was posting the vid almost as if he was pleased with himself and 'bragging' about it which isn't really 'protecting livelihood'....so makes the whole thing really even more disturbing....

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..the police are investigating because of the vid being posted ..?..

Yes. They're talking to the happy slapper.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Why not? He thinks he can slap people about then how we gonna show him that he cant? I dont encourage it but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened and I certainly wouldn't be sympathetic to the store worker at all.

You're literally condemning the guy for taking the law into his own hands, but yet in the same breath, you're saying that the thief, not 'suspected thief', should rally up some of his mates and take the law into their own hands, you don't think that that's slightly hypocritical?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Yes. They're talking to the happy slapper.

..and I think literally seemed quite happy with himself as well to post the vid ...it also makes sense that he pulled him in front of the CCTV to hit him so that he could do that...

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Liam-

You're literally condemning the guy for taking the law into his own hands, but yet in the same breath, you're saying that the thief, not 'suspected thief', should rally up some of his mates and take the law into their own hands, you don't think that that's slightly hypocritical?

I'm not condemning him for that. I have no problem with him slapping him per se, once maybe twice then throwing him out of the shop but deliberately standing him infront of the camera, sucker punching him while he was looking at the bag, the movie lines about how 'he's gonna ****** him up' There is lot to detest about this store worker and I would have absolutely no sympathy if someone looked upon him as a challenge that they cant turn down. If that makes me hypocritical then guilty as charged.