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Ahhh, morons... gotta love 'em...
Long ago, I worked security at a 24-hr grocery store up in Fresno... it would only close on Thanksgiving night, and Christmas Eve and Day (and during the riots)... it was always a blast to work those times. We'd put up these huge 5x6 foot signs that said CLOSED and still, people would park in the entirely empty parking lot, get a cart, walk up to the entrance, and then bounce off the doors when they failed to open. Mind you, the two doors are obscured by the sign, which was secured in the middle of them, so it was not possible to not see it.
Closing the store was always fun... when six pm rolled around, we would lock the entrance door and put up it's sign, then we would close the exit door and only open it to let people out. A mob would form outside, of people trying to get in; I've had a guy literally foaming at the mouth screaming I NEED TO BUY A TURKEY YOU MOTHERFUCKER at me at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving night... heh... yeah, it only takes, what, twenty-four hours to defrost a frozen turkey so you can cook it?
After the last customer inside left, and the employees went home, it would only be a few of us from security to keep the mobs at bay. People would want to argue about how the store isn't allowed to close because the sign said OPEN 24 HOURS. I've had people threaten to sue me, and to call the police. I would always happily point them to the payphone (this was when cellphones were still rare) and give them the number to the Fresno PD, which for some reason just served to further enrage them.
I even had to arrest a guy once who refused to believe that we could keep him out and proceeded to repeatedly smash a shopping cart in to the doors, actually breaking one of the mega-glass panels. It stayed intact due to the plastic film (I guess they were like vehicular safety glass), but he broke it. Aside from the felony vandalism charges, the store was suing him for the replacement costs... I wonder whatever happened to that case...
Click to viewLong ago, I worked security at a 24-hr grocery store up in Fresno... it would only close on Thanksgiving night, and Christmas Eve and Day (and during the riots)... it was always a blast to work those times. We'd put up these huge 5x6 foot signs that said CLOSED and still, people would park in the entirely empty parking lot, get a cart, walk up to the entrance, and then bounce off the doors when they failed to open. Mind you, the two doors are obscured by the sign, which was secured in the middle of them, so it was not possible to not see it.
Closing the store was always fun... when six pm rolled around, we would lock the entrance door and put up it's sign, then we would close the exit door and only open it to let people out. A mob would form outside, of people trying to get in; I've had a guy literally foaming at the mouth screaming I NEED TO BUY A TURKEY YOU MOTHERFUCKER at me at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving night... heh... yeah, it only takes, what, twenty-four hours to defrost a frozen turkey so you can cook it?
After the last customer inside left, and the employees went home, it would only be a few of us from security to keep the mobs at bay. People would want to argue about how the store isn't allowed to close because the sign said OPEN 24 HOURS. I've had people threaten to sue me, and to call the police. I would always happily point them to the payphone (this was when cellphones were still rare) and give them the number to the Fresno PD, which for some reason just served to further enrage them.
I even had to arrest a guy once who refused to believe that we could keep him out and proceeded to repeatedly smash a shopping cart in to the doors, actually breaking one of the mega-glass panels. It stayed intact due to the plastic film (I guess they were like vehicular safety glass), but he broke it. Aside from the felony vandalism charges, the store was suing him for the replacement costs... I wonder whatever happened to that case...