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.
What this person did was childish and immature. The in-laws were absolutely correct. OP is lucky they allowed them to pay for the damaged goods. Sounds like it was a small town situation. I’ve seen people arrested and given a record for the same behavior.
Counterpoint: punch Nazis in the face
A person capitalizing on current events to sell slop to idiots is not necessarily a nazi.
Without more information all that can be assumed is that they like people giving them money more than they care about optics with the public. Most shop keepers would prefer money over being viewed as “moral” by some random person.
Supporting Nazis and their policies makes you a Nazi though. Selling Nazi merch supports the Nazis.
See my other comment responding to your flawed way of thinking.
What do you get when you sit down to dinner with ten Nazis?
Eleven Nazis.
Something something only siths deal in absolutes.
That sounds like an absolute, Mr. Jedi.
The irony of that phrase being an absolute itself is not lost on me. My point stands.
#notallfascists
To clarify, I’m not defending or supporting OP’s behavior, but I believe the initial comment was misrepresenting things.