I see hope for humanity

[Gilhelmi]

http://www.examiner.com/x-19632-Salt-Lake-City-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d27-California-Safeway-store-doors-unlocked-during-Christmaspeople-leave-cash

Two California Safeway stores were unlocked during Christmas Eve and day, and people shopped and left cash for purchases, while stores were unsupervised.

A man walked into a Safeway store on Christmas Day in Roseville, California and even though the store was closed and unsupervised, people were shopping inside the store. He called the police. The police found no looting, but small piles of cash left at the registers for purchased items.

Surveillance video showed the Safeway employees locked the main doors at both of the Safeway stores. But customers were able to push the doors open and get in, said Susan Houghton, Safeway spokeswoman. Both stores were 24 hour stores and are not normally locked, but a glitch in the locking system left them open.

Source: CNN HLN

I just saw this on the news and I gained some new hope for humanity. The only thing I wonder about is if the customers remembered to include tax.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Hippobatman]

It's definately nice to see something else than the utter stupidity we've been hearing about lately.

People are generally nice, it's just the extremely stupid ones who get all the media attention.

 

[blankedboy]

Epic win. I love people like that.

 

[delet]

They obviously had the mind set of "Oh, well it's Christmas, so why not!" Any other time of the year and the stores would be milked dry. I'll bet anything on that. This supplies no faith towards humanity for me. I'm a cynic though, so I guess it can't be helped. I lost my faith in Humanity a damned long time ago.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

This is awesome! That is what i'de do because I tried to steal a pack of pokemon cards when I was younger and it didn't go well.

 

[El Poncho]

Wow you have safeways, awesome , we have Morrisons over here which replaced safeway where I live.

 

[The Anhk24]

wow can't believed they paid. Where did this happen now?

 

[grimsprice]

Awesome. People. Win.

 

[Skeleon]

Very commendable behaviour.
[sub]See, that's the kind of attitude everybody would need to have for Communism to work. [/sub]

 

[Rhowia]

Very interesting. That wouldn't happen in my city. There would be some people who would pay and others to rob it blind.

 

[Merteg]

Cheering thought.

Though, they still broke in, didn't they?

 

[Skeleon]

Sounds like they simply pushed the doors open. That's not really breaking in, the doors didn't properly lock.

 

[Jaranja]

Morons.

 

[Simalacrum]

d'awww, thats the best bit of news I've heard in ages!

How lovely

Shame that people doing crap shit seems to out-number the good things almost all the time in the media...

 

[Nmil-ek]

Wow I would have robbed the place blind registers and all, then again I'm a horrid excuse for a person apparently.

 

[ribonuge]

That's actually incredible . However it brings me to question these people's sanity. I mean, nobody on the planet is that honest, are they? I am impressed. Yes sir I am.

 

[Lotet]

Morons.

other people have heavier schedules than you

Wow I would have robbed the place blind registers and all, then again I'm a horrid excuse for a person apparently.

no store keeps money in the register, you'd be taking the piles of money or getting tackled by some big dude while you attempt it

That's actually incredible . However it brings me to question these people's sanity. I mean, nobody on the planet is that honest, are they? I am impressed. Yes sir I am.

let me guess, you download ALL your games and movies, yeah?

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I've done this before with a drink bar, just difficult trying to not look like a thief while trying to find a place to stuff the money. I just ended up putting it in the fridge