My son and daughter in law were in town one day and just entering a store when a young woman tried to confront a male shop lifter as he was leaving the shop. She wasn`t trying to physically stop him but was telling him she knew he`d taken goods plus he was on CCTV so to drop the goods and leave. The male shop lifter turned around and punched her hard in the face and then ran.
My son saw red and ran after the shop lifter, rugby tackled him to the ground and sat on him until the Police arrived. His wife told him off, telling him the shop lifter could have been carrying a knife or even a gun but as an Army Officer of almost 3 decades he just leapt to the young lady`s defence. He said he wouldn`t have chased the guy if he hadn`t turned to violence especially as the young woman wasn`t trying to restrain him or touch him. The young lady was bleeding badly from her nose and from her lips where her teeth had cut into them and she was in total shock.
It isn`t just shop lifting where people are ripping off others or threatening them. Mr V is a part time taxi driver and he regularly picks up someone or several people and they`ve done a runner without paying or threatened him when he`s asked for payment. The likes of Uber you pay online before your journey but Mr V works for a small local firm who don`t have that technology. Mr V now has a small card machine and tries to ask for card payments rather than cash and most people prefer paying by card anyway. It means he`s now carrying only small amounts of cash so if someone threatens him they`re getting away with next to nothing plus he has internal and external cameras in his cab so records every fare. Recently one of his colleagues collected a young woman who refused to pay at the end of her journey so he locked her in the car, rang the Police and when the Police arrived she accused the driver of sexually assaulting her. Luckily the driver had internal camera too and was able to show the Police Officer the entire journey proving he didn`t assault her. Mind you the poor driver ended up with a warning because he`d locked her in his car whilst waiting for the Police and the young woman got carted off to the Police station but would probably have been sent home after a couple of hours.
