Salvation Army Bell Ringer Caught Shoplifting Video Games, BB Gun, Sex Toy from Kmart

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-30 08:29

  A Salvation Army bell ringer shoplifted BB guns, a vibrator and video games from the Sterling Heights Kmart store where he was collecting donations, according to Sterling Heights police.
  
  The 21-year-old Detroit man has not yet appeared in court but is expected to be charged with retail fraud after he was arrested Dec. 15 at the Kmart at 18 Mile and Dequindre roads, police said.
  
  Maj. Lori Wright of the Mount Clemens Salvation Army, who hired the man, said she fired him immediately when informed about the charge. She called the incident unfortunate and that the man showed no criminal background.
  
  "We do a background check and go through a one-hour orientation with them," she said. "We have drivers who go out and check on the ringers periodically. But we can't be there with them all the time. Unfortunately this happened."
  
  She said there is no evidence that the suspect stole any donations.
  
  The man was suspected of stealing for several days by Kmart security personnel before he was apprehended and arrested by police around 9 p.m. on Dec. 15 for stealing two Xbox video games.
  
  "He was being watched," said Kmart spokeswoman Kim Freely. "When he was finally caught, he confessed."
  
  Security workers suspected the man of entering the store on a break and stealing two BB guns Dec. 5, an air-gun cartridge Dec. 6, and a Trojan vibrator/personal massager and K-Y Jelly on Dec. 7, police said.
  
  Wright said each holiday season she hires around 150 bell ringers, who earn $8 per hour, in addition to securing dozens of volunteers. Many of the hired ringers need income, she said.
  
  "We do it as a service to the community" as well as to collect donations, she said.
  
  She said bell ringers are instructed to "never touch" the donated money.

  
  
  http://www.sourcenewspapers.com/articles/2011/12/28/news/doc4efb580d24a43416800788.txt?viewmode=default
  
  oh man
  salvation army getting a lot of bad press recently
  
  wait... that's an odd combination to shoplift
  xbox games and vibrators?
  idolm@ster session?
  [video=youtube;aF8Laeog5Mk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8Laeog5Mk[/video]
• Cynic wrote on 2011-12-30 09:28
  Santa needed those vibrators for him and Mommy, duh. Did you guys think all they did was kiss?
  
  [SIZE="1"]/crickets chirp[/SIZE]
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-12-30 09:53
  8$ per hour? D:
• Cynic wrote on 2011-12-30 09:56

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;712756:

  8$ per hour? D:

  
  
  That's actually surprisingly good if you happen to be in a not-too-cold area. It's around 40-55 F here during the Winter and the Bell ringers here get paid like $6-7 hourly. They get chairs and everything.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-12-30 11:41
  I didn't know Kmart carried vibrators...
  
  I guess I'm too used to seeing shops with glowing neon signs saying stuff like "Licensed Sex Shop" or "XXX".
• Xemnas wrote on 2011-12-30 14:40

  Quote from Mentosftw;712787:

  I didn't know Kmart carried vibrators...
  
  I guess I'm too used to seeing shops with glowing neon signs saying stuff like "Licensed Sex Shop" or "XXX".

  
  I always thought it was family friendly, but not that way.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-12-30 17:24

  Quote from Xemnas;712855:

  I always thought it was family friendly, but not that way.

  
  
  It is family friendly. Most of them are used for spa treatments or messages and not sold in the sexual way at all. We used to have a bunch of them over by our Electronics department in the store I worked at.
  
  $8 for being a bell ringer?! Well ****, I was working at like...$7.25 an hour when I worked at Kmart. What kind of bull**** is that?! Stupid New York and it's crappy minimum wages.
  
  /end rant
  
  Btw, my brother's wife told me a story how some bell ringer took the $5 she donated out of the collection tin and put it in his pocket. She thought it was suspicious how he was watching her so when she got around the corner, she decided to take a look and that's when she saw it happen.
  
  Never trust the Salvation Army and their bell ringers ever again. Direct Donations is what I prefer.
• Cynic wrote on 2011-12-30 17:30

  Quote from Kingofrunes;712914:

  It is family friendly. Most of them are used for spa treatments or messages and not sold in the sexual way at all. We used to have a bunch of them over by our Electronics department in the store I worked at.
  
  $8 for being a bell ringer?! Well ****, I was working at like...$7.25 an hour when I worked at Kmart. What kind of bull**** is that?! Stupid New York and it's crappy minimum wages.
  
  /end rant
  
  Btw, my brother's wife told me a story how some bell ringer took the $5 she donated out of the collection tin and put it in his pocket. She thought it was suspicious how he was watching her so when she got around the corner, she decided to take a look and that's when she saw it happen.
  
  Never trust the Salvation Army and their bell ringers ever again. Direct Donations is what I prefer.

  
  
  Vibrators aren't used for massages, though. Only back massagers are. (though those can obviously be used as a vibrator)
  
  Unless that's what they meant.