Was wondering through a shop today and found Gulf of America hats…whatever, queue eye roll. Then I saw an Alligator Alcatraz hat, proceeded to knock it off the rack and stomp on it a bunch. Then knocked half the Gulf of America hats off the rack now that I realize this shop owner is a piece of shit. (Im in a vacationy souvenir shop)
I think nothing of it, figures the employees will pick up the hats and put them back on the rack…
About an hour later a police officer walks up to me in a nearby restaurant and says he needs to speak to me. Turns out the guy was went back and watched the security footage to ID me…the cop says the guy wants to prosecute me if I dont pay for the hat.
I get down to the shop (its a 14 dollar hat btws) and the guy acts like it was a Gulf of America hat I damaged (obviously trying to misrepresent the situation).
Im now not allowed in that shop for a year, as if I’d ever go shopping back there.
I explained to a friend what happened a while after it happened, after having a not great conversation about it with my inlaws who think “the guy is allowed to sell whatever he wants”
After I tell my friend what happened, he says its the coolest thing I’ve ever done. I really needed to hear that after having a shitty conversation with my in-laws about how they think what I did was stupid.
Anyway, made me feel much better because the shop owner is a piece of crap, and is trying to profit off other people’s misery, and I will never support that.
The shop owner is a piece of shit. You fucked up by buying merchandise from a piece of shit. Own your mistakes and do better next time. The correct move is to simply leave the store as soon as you see that shit. The store owner is a piece of shit and doesn’t care what you think. He has plenty more hats to sell to plenty more pieces of shit.
I bought a pair of shorts the day before after driving 5 and a half hours. The hats were hidden in the very back of the store. Excuse me for not scouring the store to make sure it was okay to buy from first.
No, I’m saying you bought it when you damaged it in a childish tantrum.
I’d do it again too. I don’t support profiting fascist merchandise…this is like selling Awschits t-shits and then tepling me to calm down about being upset that i saw one… Its a fucking concentration camp, and youre an idiot if you think its a childish tantrum to vandalize that stuff.
But you did support profiting fascist merchandise. You literally paid for the fascist merchandise you stomped on.
Nah, fuck that noise.
Destroying fascist propaganda is a win.
He didn’t destroy it. He bought it.
No, i destroyed it. I paid for it bcz the police officer told me the shop owner was going to press charges if I didnt pay for the hat. Aka, get arrested for trespassing on my vacation over a hat, or pay for it and leave with my family…I would do it again in a heartbeat. Ain’t selling that dirty ass white hat to anybody else. I count it as a win.
Right, you paid money for the hat. The shop owner doesn’t care if it is destroyed, because their goal is profiting from the hat, which they did. The hat served its purpose.
It’s like the people who buy books to burn them, and then the book ends up on the bestseller lists.
Its not like buying a book and burning it. Im sure you’d do the same thing if a police officer approached you in a restaurant and told you to pay fir the hat or get arrested.
I didnt literally buy the hat and go set it on fire.
No, but your choices had a predictable outcome. You break it, you buy it. Getting the police involved is just extra steps.