Good lord, has anyone seen this:

 

 

There's a lot of videos like that on YouTube, especially in Detroit. They're comical to watch, especially the blatant, open-air drug deals right in front of the camera. You blatantly see money and drugs switching hands like its nothing - in front of everybody, even in well-lit areas.

 

Everyone sees Detroit as a worse case scenario and that may be why so many of those videos are taken in Detroit, but yeah, that happens in every city. There's definitely neighborhoods in other cities that are far more crime ridden than neighborhoods in Detroit. Even in Ohio.

I'm surprised you chose that video to post.. I've seen much, much worse. In person and in YouTube videos. There really isn't anything going on except street life which is a good, not bad thing. Usually those videos show violence or drug activity. I'm not sure what is so shocking about that video posted. All I see is a bunch of 'eyes on the street' at night, when it's most beneficial. Ha.

 

To be honest with you, a very similar but much more violent and crime ridden video could be made in a predominantly White part of Columbus - especially the West side.

 

Edit: And I mean the entire west side which is entirely predominantly White....

 

Same with Dayton, from my personal experience.

WCPO reports state Rep. Wes Retherford, R-Hamilton, was arrested over the weekend after he appeared to be passed out behind the wheel at a McDonald's drive-through window with a loaded firearm by his side.

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/03/13/morning-roundup-ohio-lawmaker-arrested-asleep-in.html

 

LMAO. Of course this guy represents Hamilton, OH.

My cousin lives in Euclid and has some really interesting stories to tell about her neighbors and overall life there. The most recent gem was that some teen thug was banging on her door and got several kicks in. My cousin has 6 guns in the house by doors and windows, all loaded, and she grabbed one (a 38, I think) and started yelling at him to get out. The kid ran away, she called the police, an officer arrived in 20 minutes (not horrible response time), and unbelievably he found the person quickly after and arrested the miscreant.

 

A little later, the same officer was back at the house taking a report and checking her gun licenses, and all of the sudden there's another commotion at her door. It's an out-of-control woman screaming and threatening my cousin for having called the police. The officer orders her to leave, that she's trespassing and disturbing the peace, she won't listen and continues screaming how my cousin is a racist and her son is innocent, and the cop threatens to arrest her. And so the woman goes into the street and continues bellowing for a few minutes and making unintelligible threats before storming off.

 

So that was Memorial Day for my cousin, who is also a vet. What a country...

My cousin lives in Euclid and has some really interesting stories to tell about her neighbors and overall life there. The most recent gem was that some teen thug was banging on her door and got several kicks in. My cousin has 6 guns in the house by doors and windows, all loaded, and she grabbed one (a 38, I think) and started yelling at him to get out. The kid ran away, she called the police, an officer arrived in 20 minutes (not horrible response time), and unbelievably he found the person quickly after and arrested the miscreant.

 

A little later, the same officer was back at the house taking a report and checking her gun licenses, and all of the sudden there's another commotion at her door. It's an out-of-control woman screaming and threatening my cousin for having called the police. The officer orders her to leave, that she's trespassing and disturbing the peace, she won't listen and continues screaming how my cousin is a racist and her son is innocent, and the cop threatens to arrest her. And so the woman goes into the street and continues bellowing for a few minutes and making unintelligible threats before storming off.

 

So that was Memorial Day for my cousin, who is also a vet. What a country...

 

Race relations in Greater Cleveland are hysterical to me. City of Cleveland has experienced massive 'Black flight' into inner-ring suburbs, since the 2000s because the neighborhoods and schools are so terrible. All the liberal White suburban Clevelanders embrace them with open arms even though their property values and school rankings are declining as inner city problems are being brought in with the new residents. The white people up here are still rooting for them, raising awareness of their own 'White Privilege' and detesting anything that may be perceived as racial profiling or discrimination. Yet you still hear about instances like this all the time which, lets face it, amounts to 'Black victim culture.' The saddest example I've heard of was when that Black mother went on Shaker's Facebook group hootin' and hollerin' about her son being racially profiled by police because they stopped and questioned him because you have to have a permit to go around shoveling snow. All these White Shakerites came to her defense, talking about how horrible it was and how the police's actions don't represent their community... and it actually made the frickin' news.

 

Judging by things like demographic changes and the declining tax revenue in a lot of the inner-ring suburbs like Euclid WITH THE ever-increasing number of subdivisions sprouting up in cornfields in Avon, etc., I'm going to assume that at the end of the day, even the most hardcore of liberals just don't have the patience to keep dealing with inner city problems that continue to spill over. There's many more people moving further out into the cornfields of places like Avon than there are people buying those $100 properties from the Land Bank in Hough, Slavic Village and wherever else they are - you know, where all those vocal White Privileged Liberals could actually put their money where their mouth is and do their part to make a difference.

 

You can say what you want about how progressive Cleveland or NEO is but I view it as one of the most segregated places in America (and the most delusional when it comes to some of the issues.) It's so different up here, to me and I think I know why. I grew up on the west side of Columbus where it was about 50/50 or 60%/40% Appalachian /African-American. Race relations were incredibly good and still are. Both groups actually dealt with a lot of the same struggles and still do.

Your third paragraph seems to contradict the first two.  Could you please summarize your point in 2 sentences?  Thank you.

I think the liberals David is referring to were based in, and still are to some degree, in Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, etc.    Some may have moved out, but they certainly aren't RUNNING AWAY to Avon Lake. 

^ So these white liberals are living in racially diverse suburbs and that is somehow not putting their money where their mouth is. 

^ So these white liberals are living in racially diverse suburbs and that is somehow not putting their money where their mouth is. 

 

Not when they loudly preach about their own White Privilege and the horrors of racial discrimination and profiling in every coffee shop I enter up here, in places like Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights while they're sending their kids to private schools like Hathaway-Brown. I think the privileged White Liberals up here do have good intentions but they're a little delusional and even hypocritical. These are the same people who are vocal about hating Trump and Betsy DeVos and everything the two stand for. Or how they don't condone their teenagers or even adult children to hang out in Shaker Square or take The Rapid there because it's 'unsafe.' Especially after dark. 

 

Avon was a random example that was inspired from a Cleveland documentary I watched; I got caught up in watching it on my phone before going to work a couple days ago. It's called "Cleveland: Confronting Decline In An American City." It's a very good documentary. It touches on some of my talking points but it's essentially about the history of Cleveland, from bustling to it's struggles and it's future prospects. If you want to watch it, here's the link:

 

Lots of strawmen and broad brushes in your post.  You are just so angry all the time.  Maybe your Columbus utopia where there is no racism is better for you. 

I get some of your points and they are valid  but the only place my wife has been called the n-word to her face was in the Arena District in Columbus. Black people in Columbus avoid the Arena District because of the overt racism. My brother went to OSU and had a lot of issues on campus. Every city has these weird racial quirks and hypocrisies.

Avon is filling up with liberals?

I'm not claiming that I have this city (or metro, rather) entirely figured out but there is definitely weird race relations here. It entails a lot of bitter black folks preaching about racism and their victimization and a lot of extremely liberal white folks who are vocal and apologetic about their 'white privilege' and how bad racial profiling and discrimination is. On the surface it seems like they really do care about equality and social justice but at the end of the day, there's nothing mitigating, let alone fixing the problem. It just isn't happening at all for some reason, despite Cleveland being one of the most liberal and progressive cities. I don't have the answers. I just know the fact remains that Metro Cleveland is the one of the most segregated cities in America.

Cleveland is segregated based on the migration patterns from 60+ years ago. African-Americans moving north  didn't have the ability to choose where they lived. Redlining/racism prevented them moving into certain neighborhoods, so they settled on the east side. Things just continued from there. Most of the northern industrial cities that experienced mass African-American migration are on the most segregated cities list.

Cleveland is not actually a very liberal region or city for that matter.  Race relations are a huge problem here Noone will deny that.  But perhaps outside of the few liberals in the Cleveland neighborhoods and select inner ring suburbs, you'll find that most people are social moderates or conservatives. 

 

Cleveland is heavily Democratic but it's mostly union democrats who are more concerned with economic issues rather than social. 

Really?! God, NEO strikes me as liberal as hell after living here 1 1/2 years and Columbus is known for being EXTREMELY liberal  :-o I lean liberal but I still feel like such a fish out of water up here sometimes with some of my ideas/beliefs.

This is really sad

 

My cousin lives in Euclid and has some really interesting stories to tell about her neighbors and overall life there. The most recent gem was that some teen thug was banging on her door and got several kicks in. My cousin has 6 guns in the house by doors and windows, all loaded, and she grabbed one (a 38, I think) and started yelling at him to get out. The kid ran away, she called the police, an officer arrived in 20 minutes (not horrible response time), and unbelievably he found the person quickly after and arrested the miscreant.

 

A little later, the same officer was back at the house taking a report and checking her gun licenses, and all of the sudden there's another commotion at her door. It's an out-of-control woman screaming and threatening my cousin for having called the police. The officer orders her to leave, that she's trespassing and disturbing the peace, she won't listen and continues screaming how my cousin is a racist and her son is innocent, and the cop threatens to arrest her. And so the woman goes into the street and continues bellowing for a few minutes and making unintelligible threats before storming off.

 

So that was Memorial Day for my cousin, who is also a vet. What a country...

 

I'm reasonably impressed with EPD, living more or less next door, but "checking gun licenses"???  There's no such thing in Ohio except for concealed carry, which isn't needed on her own property.

^ So these white liberals are living in racially diverse suburbs and that is somehow not putting their money where their mouth is. 

 

Not when they loudly preach about their own White Privilege and the horrors of racial discrimination and profiling in every coffee shop I enter up here, in places like Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights while they're sending their kids to private schools like Hathaway-Brown. I think the privileged White Liberals up here do have good intentions but they're a little delusional and even hypocritical. These are the same people who are vocal about hating Trump and Betsy DeVos and everything the two stand for. Or how they don't condone their teenagers or even adult children to hang out in Shaker Square or take The Rapid there because it's 'unsafe.' Especially after dark. 

 

Avon was a random example that was inspired from a Cleveland documentary I watched; I got caught up in watching it on my phone before going to work a couple days ago. It's called "Cleveland: Confronting Decline In An American City." It's a very good documentary. It touches on some of my talking points but it's essentially about the history of Cleveland, from bustling to it's struggles and it's future prospects. If you want to watch it, here's the link:

 

 

Krumholtz did much more harm than good when he was here.  I think most NEO area posters would rank him with Kucinich and Porter.

I don't think that's true at all.  Norm gets it.  He is considered one of the tip minds in planning.  I think his ideas were usually overridden by politicos who thought they knew better.  Sort of how planning works today in Cleveland.

I get some of your points and they are valid  but the only place my wife has been called the n-word to her face was in the Arena District in Columbus. Black people in Columbus avoid the Arena District because of the overt racism. My brother went to OSU and had a lot of issues on campus. Every city has these weird racial quirks and hypocrisies.

 

Ugh, probably because all the frat bros with their Afflicted T's take over and act like big s*** in that swamp.  I hope the North Market Tower and proposed hotels & apartments clean up that area a bit.  I've only been recently as part of a Cancer Crawl, so maybe it's changed, but it always seemed like DB central down there.

Can't that whole thing just go away already?

This is amazing. After hearing all this talk recently about other forums and discovering how all of these forums are so closely inter-linked, I went to check the others out after not having been there so many years. I discovered this post on City-Data after going to the site and immediate going to the Cleveland forum:

 

I have read on some posts, here and other sites, in the past where some people have said that Cleveland has too much of a "us vs. them" mentality. They also felt that Clevelanders can be too defensive and not welcome insiders. So, is it true what they say or is it all blown out of proposition? Why or why not?

 

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/cleveland/2751883-does-cleveland-have-us-vs-them.html#ixzz4isjnVXOl

 

By insiders, I think it's safe to assume it was a typo and he/she meant 'outsiders.'

 

I've mentioned the same exact thing on here without any influence from other forums (and caught hell from it) and even used the phrase "us vs. them" mentioned in the above post, to describe the general mentality of Clevelanders. It's weird to me that my posts on UO inspired posts and spurred discussions on entirely different websites.  :-o Sometimes I feel like I'm just ranting about stuff that no one cares about or is even willing to consider and think about but apparently it's something that some folks are willing to consider and start a discussion about elsewhere :)

I used to view City-data as racist and ignorant but it seems like that's where I belong  :-o

 

 

Good lord, has anyone seen this:

 

 

The street drinking is something we've been pushing back at, with some success. 

 

Those backpacks don't contain school books.  That's the first thing to look for, or bicycles.

I don't think that's true at all.  Norm gets it.  He is considered one of the tip minds in planning.  I think his ideas were usually overridden by politicos who thought they knew better.  Sort of how planning works today in Cleveland.

 

He was one of the main reasons why GCRTA is seen as a social program, not a transportation resource, with some justification.  He was on the first Board and railed against making any changes that would "serve fat cats".  The problem wasn't that politicians didn't listen to him, it's that they did.

There really needs to be a federalized/uniform code of conduct on all public transportation. Far too many people behave HORRIBLY time and time again without any real consequence. It probably isn't realistic to have a list similar to Do Not Fly, so the next solution is draconian penalties to those who abuse the system and frankly terrorize passengers with impunity. Threatening, harassing, outright fighting, antagonizing, panhandling, even playing loud music should be treated severely. Deputizing all drivers and qualified passengers is a start to enforcement. We don't permit this S**t on planes or airports, I don't understand why we've let this in trains and buses go on for so long.

There really needs to be a federalized/uniform code of conduct on all public transportation. Far too many people behave HORRIBLY time and time again without any real consequence. It probably isn't realistic to have a list similar to Do Not Fly, so the next solution is draconian penalties to those who abuse the system and frankly terrorize passengers with impunity. Threatening, harassing, outright fighting, antagonizing, panhandling, even playing loud music should be treated severely. Deputizing all drivers and qualified passengers is a start to enforcement. We don't permit this S**t on planes or airports, I don't understand why we've let this in trains and buses go on for so long.

 

Context?

 

I don't see why this shouldn't be a state/local/system matter.

Just sort or a stream of consciousness rant. So much S**t happens daily on public transportation and it's unbelievably frustrating that anti-social characters have carte blanche to terorrize people in these confined spaces. Local, city, state, federal - any work for me.

TBideon, where do you live? Cincinnati? Cincinnati has the craziest public transit riders. Cleveland being a not too distant second.

 

One time I was riding (I think it was the number 40 bus) down Lee Rd. into Shaker Heights and this teenager was rolling a blunt on the bus. He was in the handicap section, literally right next to the bus driver in plain sight. He had a bag of weed sitting next to him that smelled like FOUR skunks. He was licking his blunt wrap and rolling it and the bus driver didn't even say anything. Everyone on the bus was talking about it and laughing.

 

Weed is a fairly harmless drug but I don't really condone that happening around kids on the bus. It's still technically illegal.

 

I also don't condone a lot of the cell phone conversations that are really vile and crude when young ears are listening. It's weird how completely oblivious some folks on the bus/train are. No one wants to hear about your trashy ss[/member] drama and no one wants to hear you curse every other word and if kids are around, you really should take that into consideration.

Chicago by address, but I'm in Cleveland about a week a month.

He had a bag of weed sitting next to him that smelled like FOUR skunks.

 

If weed ever does become legal in Ohio, it needs to be treated like smoking in public because of the nasty smell. Second hand smoke is more dangerous, but it at least smells okay in comparison. Olfactory comfort needs to be maintained in public spaces. I treat people who smell like weed the same way I'd treat someone who let out a huge loud fart. Half the time, farts probably smell better.

Good luck with that, LOL! People who smoke weed LOVE the smell of weed. The more pungent, the better.

 

It's akin to how folks in the country LOVE the smell of horse manure.

You really think cigarettes smell better than weed?

^ I was thinking the same thing.  Weed smells much better than cigarettes.

He had a bag of weed sitting next to him that smelled like FOUR skunks.

 

If weed ever does become legal in Ohio, it needs to be treated like smoking in public because of the nasty smell. Second hand smoke is more dangerous, but it at least smells okay in comparison. Olfactory comfort needs to be maintained in public spaces. I treat people who smell like weed the same way I'd treat someone who let out a huge loud fart. Half the time, farts probably smell better.

 

Good weed doesn't smell bad at all.

 

Bad weed smells like a chemical weapon sometimes.

 

I'm kind of laughing at this post showing up because shortly before closing time Saturday night I needed to mention to the people on our smoking deck that I did indeed know what “smell I smelled” and it’s really not supposed to be present (let alone used) in a place that is state regulated.  Which includes an outdoor area that allows open containers.  I’m not one that minds just the smell of cigarettes, but weed smells better.

Earlier this month in Montreal, someone said "bonjour" to me, and I instinctively replied with "bonjour". This caused the person to start talking French to me, and I mostly just nodded until the interaction was over.

 

Yesterday I was reminded of this when someone started talking to me about "the game" as if I knew what they were talking about. As a male, people will often assume I know things about sports and start talking to me about them. I usually just nod until the interaction is over.

Earlier this month in Montreal, someone said "bonjour" to me, and I instinctively replied with "bonjour". This caused the person to start talking French to me, and I mostly just nodded until the interaction was over.

 

Yesterday I was reminded of this when someone started talking to me about "the game" as if I knew what they were talking about. As a male, people will often assume I know things about sports and start talking to me about them. I usually just nod until the interaction is over.

 

For my 50th birthday, I gave myself the present of confirming that I Do Not Do "Small Talk".  My replies are very noncommital, or "huh?", that last part is not feigned.  Too many concerts and loud stereos.

I used to be so horrible at small talk. I think I am a lot better at it now, though, just by understanding its importance and making a conscious effort and ... well, just not being as uptight as I was when I was younger by acting more humble and human I guess. I just don't have that weird, unfounded sense of pride and exclusivity that I used to have. I make fart jokes and joke about a lot of things I never would have when I was younger. For better or worse, life has beaten me down hard over the years and I've discovered that having a positive outlook on it and being humble and open as a result of that pain has caused me to be extremely relatable to a lot more people. It's hard to describe but people respect you more for just being yourself, not being afraid to be yourself, no matter who that person is and being yourself makes you more relatable than you think.

 

I also discovered that there's just certain things in life that everyone can not only relate to but LOVE to relate to and I've found that it helps when I initiate the conversation instead of feeling entitled to rely on others for that. You know, it's never about being expected to talk about certain things, it's mostly just about (on both sides) having a less awkward experience when people deal with each other. If someone starts talking to you about sports and you're like me, the best thing you can do is let them know right away that you don't really give a sh!t or know sh!t about sports - but give them the impression you're willing to listen to them rant somewhat about it if they need to get it out of their system. Ask them a question regarding whatever they're talking about. The best conversationalists know to ask questions on a topic they know very little about.

 

When I initiate a convo, I just focus on things that I know everyone deals with and loves/hates and has an opinion on; things like traffic, weather, common fun things to do - but first and foremost, I talk about FOOD if I can't already read the person. Food actually tends to be my go-to subject with small-talk and it takes me very far. It works with women but you'd also be surprised how it can make for a good bonding moment with other men when you talk about some killer sh!t you made and what all you put in it. They'll start telling you about some awesome sh!t they made recently. I don't care who you're talking to, once you bring up food you made or your experience at a beloved local, familiar restaurant - (for example, I had been talking a lot lately about Barrio opening up a new location in Cleveland Hts where I live) it always spawns an actual, fun conversation with people. Is it a life-changing conversation? No, but food and eating out is something we all enjoy, come together on and love exchanging opinions about! I talk about how they have a really cool reverse-happy hour after 9pm where their tacos are only 2 dollars and they have this awesome Coca-Cola marinated steak you can get. But then I tell of certain schemes like if you order rice in your taco, they charge a dollar extra per taco and that's how they get ya' to spend more money, so watch out for that. Initiating a conversation with something like that is great because no matter what a person's hobbies or political affiliation or whatever else that divides us, it's a reminder that there's some things we all enjoy and hate. In this case, it's eating and critiquing food and complaining about ridiculous prices, no matter the trivial amount that it depletes our wallet. A bill reflecting an extra dollar per taco isn't going to make me bankrupt, but we all hate feeling ripped off and love complaining about those universally-perceived injustices of the world. You should see some of the reactions I get when I've told people about that. They're like, "Whaaaaaaaaat? Rice is a dollar for like a giant ss[/member] bag!" lol

 

I gotta admit Dave, you definitely have a fun to read writing style.

An employee of the Jefferson County morgue died this morning, after being accidentally cremated by one of his coworkers.

 

According to the Beaumont Police Department, 48-year old Henri Paul Johnson decided to take a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight.

While he was sleeping, another employee mistook him for the corpse of a 52-year old car accident victim and carried him to the crematory.

 

Before anyone could notice the mistake, he had already been exposed to temperatures ranging between 1400 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and reduced to ashes.

Jenna Davis, one of Henri Johnson’s coworkers, says she heard him scream for about 15 seconds after the crematory was activated.

 

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/morgue-employee-cremated-by-mistake-while-taking-a-nap/

 

That employee should be charged with 1800 degree murder!

D@mnit, that site is fake! Snopes ruins everything!

I just donated some cash to HRC - Human Rights Campaign. I would have donated more but I didn't have my debit card on me. Still, I hope the money really does effectively go towards GLBT protection legislation in the states they were mentioning. I enjoy donating money every now and then to causes I believe in but I've been duped before.

 

I got approached by Knights of Columbus (they're from Columbus so they must be great, right? Just kidding, Clevelanders...) last year and when I asked them where the money would be going, they said 'Easter baskets for poor kids.' In my head, I was obviously thinking, "Who in their right mind doesn't support poor kids getting Easter baskets?!" So I handed over money to them. Then, ten minutes later my friend Alex told me what a horrible organization they are, how they actively try block legislation that promotes marriage equality and all this other nonsense. I said, 'great, couldn't have told me that BEFORE I handed over cash. I would have LOVED to call them out on that.'

 

Is there any way you can donate money to a large organization like that and know that your money is going DIRECTLY to the SPECIFIC cause they're mentioning? 

That's like that one charity that puts teddy bears in highway patrol cars so that troopers can give 'em to kids at crash sites but really only exists to make the owner rich.

I didn't know those teddy bears come from a charity. I was the recipient of one, lol! Under different circumstances. When I was 5, I had to witness (and still remember vividly) my dad beating the crap out of my mom; they were raging alcoholics and drug users. The cops came and arrested him and of course, me being 5 years old, felt really powerless and helpless and sad in that situation. Looking back it was funny when he was resisting arrest and how they ended up hog-tying him and kicking him down the steps of the front porch - it broke his nose. Haha. Police brutality, yeah, but he had it coming.

 

Anyway, one of the officers was really cool and took me in his cruiser and let me play with all of the bells and whistles - the sirens and sound effects and stuff that I'm sure woke everyone up on Dana Ave. While we were in the cruiser, he handed me one of those teddy bears. It did a good job of cheering me up and let me know there was at least someone out there that cared about my well-being, I guess.

 

That bear was by my side for years!

 

 

I should write a book.

Is there any way you can donate money to a large organization like that and know that your money is going DIRECTLY to the SPECIFIC cause they're mentioning? 

 

I extremely vet my charities and ignore any and all that approach me, in lieu of me finding them. I try not to give to any that are too big or have too much overhead or are primarily concerned with lobbying. I also donate more money to cats than people, because I've never met a cat I don't like. I can't say the same for people.

If you donate a lot to cats, I think there's a good chance that even I was a beneficiary of your donation since I've fostered quite a few stray cats. lol.

 

It was great - I took on cats for a while, for a fairly short term until they managed to find them a permanent home. Some cats had Leukemia :( They actually paid for all the vet bills, food, cage, litter and even toys while the cats were staying with me. Good thing, since at the time, I wouldn't have been able to afford all that. My role was essentially just to provide a place for the cats to live and be taken care of, for basic responsibilities. I changed the litter box every day, played with them and gave them a lot of love in my free time. The rest was taken care of by others like you.  :)

 

 

 

Anyway, one of the officers was really cool and took me in his cruiser and let me play with all of the bells and whistles - the sirens and sound effects and stuff that I'm sure woke everyone up on Dana Ave.

 

 

If that was my neighborhood growing up you wouldn't have woke anyone up by that point...

well, after all, Whole Foods is a little high priced...

 

Bank exec busted shoplifting from Whole Foods using baby stroller

By Rebecca Rosenberg July 12, 2017

 

http://nypost.com/2017/07/12/bank-exec-busted-shoplifting-from-whole-foods-using-baby-stroller/

 

"An executive at a billion-dollar investment bank was busted at the Tribeca Whole Foods for shoplifting $210 in goods — which he allegedly tried to sneak out in his children’s stroller, court records revealed.

 

Jordan Lupu, 42, was spotted by store security and busted by cops Feb. 5 as he was leaving the high-end supermarket on Greenwich Street, just a few blocks from his $3 million home."

 

"The father of two, who also has a $1.4 million home in Westchester, accepted a deal Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court — an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal."

You can get a home in Tribeca  for only $3M?

 

He's either a Klepto or lives an extremely boring life and needed some kind of a thrill.

 

You wouldn't believe how common shoplifting is. When I worked at Old Navy in Rookwood (Hyde Park/Norwood) as a teen, I saw women walk out in hand cuffs on almost a daily basis. It was always women who were stealing. It's easy for women to steal because it isn't suspicious that they have a giant purse or stroller with them - which they shove items into when no one is looking. IMO, there's at least a subset of women who are just extremely materialistic, obsessed with consumer products and things that look 'cute.' I know, it sounds sexist. I don't care. We hired a really good 'loss prevention specialist.' He pretended to be a customer and followed people around. He knew how to review the cameras. He had incredible acting skills; if a thief was onto him following them, he'd start asking an associate for jeans in a certain size, fashion advice or get on his phone and pretend to have a conversation with someone wherein the content of the conversation explains him being a legit customer at Old Navy. If he confronted people and they refused to relinquish the goods or go to the back office while the police were on their way, he would chase after those people in the parking lot to get their license plate numbers. One time he followed the thief after they ran and sped off in their car, which lead to a high-speed chase on 71 North. He only got paid like 12 bucks an hour for that job. It didn't seem worth it to me.