Would I have to pay taxes on this???
Ricci.Wright
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It seems like a lucrative business model. One large cube truck and maybe ten day laborers. It used to be illegal but not no more. The cops don't care and the stores don't care, but I don't want to run afoul of the IRS.
" WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said.
Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night shocked shoppers at the Nordstrom at the Broadway Plaza outdoor mall in Walnut Creek, police said in a statement Sunday.
Two employees were assaulted and one was hit with pepper spray during what police called “clearly a planned event.”
NBC Bay Area reporter Jodi Hernandez tweeted that she saw the thieves rush into the store in the downtown shopping district in the city some 20 miles northeast of San Francisco.
“About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars and speeding away,” Hernandez said on Twitter.
Cellphone video from the scene showed masked people streaming out of the store, carrying bags and boxes, jumping into the cars and fleeing the scene.
Brett Barrette, the manager of a nearby PF Chang’s restaurant, began locking doors at his establishment while watching the chaos unfold.
“We probably saw 50 to 80 people in ski masks, crowbars, a bunch of weapons,” Barrette told ABC 7 News.
The Walnut Creek Police Department said a firearm was recovered from one of the three arrested suspects.
Nordstrom employees began calling 911 around 9 p.m. as thieves entered the store and began stealing merchandise, police said.
“Walnut Creek Police investigators are in the process of reviewing surveillance footage to attempt to identify other suspects responsible for this brazen act,” the department said in Sunday’s statement.
Nordstrom was open as usual on Sunday.
The incident came a day after several high-end stores in San Francisco’s Union Square were broken into by a large group of people who smashed windows, stole merchandise, and then ran to waiting cars, police said.
Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Yves Saint Laurent, Burberry, and Dolce & Gabbana were all targeted Friday night, Fox 2 News reported.
San Francisco Police Officer Robert Rueca said in a statement posted on social media that officers responded to reports of possible looting and vandalism at Union Square stores Friday night and arrested several people.
Stores in Union Square, a posh shopping district popular with tourists, have been targeted for years by well-organized thieves who at times have rammed vehicles into storefronts to break glass doors and windows and enter the buildings during non-business hours.
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i get your premise but with my luck and possibly yours we would end up being the ones the police decided enough is enough and turn loose the dogs of hell on. so ill just pass.
Just sounds like normal routine now a days.
It is all part of Jeff Bezos’ plan to eliminate retail selling.
Brad Steele
the next 3 years are a free do what ya want with out legal problems🤑
big cities free for all small towns and cities not so much
I know I f i walked into any local busness and carried out any thing the LEO would be at my car or house to charge me .
many years ago my younger brother ( RIP ) got in trouble for back child support along with countless others here in Ohio he went to court local small town and got a year in prison for his trouble .. flip side we found out all the bigger cities sent no one to prison or almost none ( this was published info ) its cost to much to house them (my brother owed less then 8k but the ee state spend 15 k or so taking care of him for almost a full year ) its was just a headache to deal with for the state and local cities so they were all set free or probation . but the small towns all sent people to prison
ya that's fair and equal treatment and wow what a cost savings
Some 00 Buck would have put an end to that really quick.
Need the Dem Senate to investigate this insurrection
Newsome just tweeted it was caused by the freeing of Rittenhouse and people are angry. Just an expression and people letting of emotions. All ok.
My neighbor's dog barked at me. I think I'll go ransack Menards.
People who use to not want to work, I refer to them as Bums. but now they feel we owe them something. because we got ahead by working. Bums with an attitude I guess you could call them.
Sounds like a new spin on "Black Friday"
Just need to be able to stop thieves again. Company tells employees to leave them go. They say its not worth the effort an cost to put them in jail. That they will be out on street in some instance a few hours. I say we go back to the days of judge Isaac Parker the hanging judge. You hang a few in public it will slow down all this stupid stuff. Plus we get rid of the cost of prison.
Put the old sign up, LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT and next time 60 of them come in kill them. BUT you would be in jail! Then the country would be on full tilt for the holiday season.
Only if you're caught. Be sure to keep an expense log in the event you need to deduct expenses.
Notice that they never rob or loot a gun store, or a place that sells work boots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I heard that Walmart was giving free Turkeys to anyone who could outrun security.. anybody else heard about this..??