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After helping me work on his truck I decided to take my shop assistant to Hobbytown, between the models, RC vehicles and 1:64 vehicles he is fascinated with the place.
So we do a quick initial lap, they had done a brief remodel and moved stuff around. After that we settled in to digging thru the 1:64 scale vehicles. From there I see the usually very happy assistant manager on his cellphone talking about a guy with a orange stocking hat and a big green camo coat. Naturally I start looking around and sure enough there is a guy with a comically oversize green coat acting shady. He looked like a bad thief out of a cartoon. His girlfriend was wearing a black covid style mask which didn't really help the looks of the situationa any.
Well thats interesting... I kinda keep myself angled so I keep an eye on questionable guy and the front door and tried to prod shop assistant to hurry up.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the police to roll in. Two cars worth of them. They talk to the assistant manager up at the front of the store before making their way back to the stocking hat guy. He is behind a shelf so I can't see anything but I hear them tell him to put everything down and ask if he has any weapons on his person.
Sorry bud, we are leaving now... we are not sticking around for a fight or whatever.
Assistant manager was towards the front and just like any other time thanked us for coming in with a smile... as I was carrying a crying kid out of the store.
Initially he was bummed because he didn't have much time there but after I filled him in he was pretty excited to hear what all was going on. He had seen the guy and decided that normal bad guys don't wear a big coat like that, only supervillains... On our way out of the parking lot a third cruiser was pulling in.
So we do a quick initial lap, they had done a brief remodel and moved stuff around. After that we settled in to digging thru the 1:64 scale vehicles. From there I see the usually very happy assistant manager on his cellphone talking about a guy with a orange stocking hat and a big green camo coat. Naturally I start looking around and sure enough there is a guy with a comically oversize green coat acting shady. He looked like a bad thief out of a cartoon. His girlfriend was wearing a black covid style mask which didn't really help the looks of the situationa any.
Well thats interesting... I kinda keep myself angled so I keep an eye on questionable guy and the front door and tried to prod shop assistant to hurry up.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the police to roll in. Two cars worth of them. They talk to the assistant manager up at the front of the store before making their way back to the stocking hat guy. He is behind a shelf so I can't see anything but I hear them tell him to put everything down and ask if he has any weapons on his person.
Sorry bud, we are leaving now... we are not sticking around for a fight or whatever.
Assistant manager was towards the front and just like any other time thanked us for coming in with a smile... as I was carrying a crying kid out of the store.
Initially he was bummed because he didn't have much time there but after I filled him in he was pretty excited to hear what all was going on. He had seen the guy and decided that normal bad guys don't wear a big coat like that, only supervillains... On our way out of the parking lot a third cruiser was pulling in.
