I’m with you 100% on the last story. Press charges! Get them fired! Make their lives as difficult as possible! *_STOP. LETTING. THEM. GET. AWAY. WITH. IT._*
There was an update that got deleted, but preserved on best of redditor updates. He went to the tire shop. Eric actually approached op and apologized, and claimed he was going to go back to walmart to apologize as well. Dude was apparently having a rough time after a loss in the family and just lashed out. I think the repost can be found on secure-raspberry-763 submissions or searching best of redditor updates.
I don’t know this is a bit like the sword of Damocles and the psychological strain of him having to be on his best behaviour or lose his job sounds delicious to me
@@stuartwalker9597 Guys like that either don't see the sword or think they've got some kind of magic plot armor. It's only when the sword has them impaled to the ground that they realize it's real and then they think they've been victimized somehow for it.
Honestly, there may not have been a wife. The insistence on cash, quickness to anger, irritability, and lack of reason are all telltale signs of certain drug users. He sounds coked off his ass.
@Kayenne54 I have a friend that is part of the Klingon Fleet, they go to conventions & run a charity drive where you can put your friends in jail for whatever charges you make up & the Klingons will come 'arrest' you. He's also part of BarFleet, where I met him. I texted him & asked for help with the translation, he's one the that directed me to the translation website. I've used it since, so it was a useful recommendation.
Hehe. Scaring thieves is ok. Although personally this is why I like keeping a ups box. It’s harder to steal from a porch when the item never goes to a porch to begin with. 😉
@@giraffegiraffe8702 I didn't even know porch drop of deliveries was a thing until I got exposed to US media😂 In my country, if it doesn't fit in the letter box/slot, it stays for pick-up at the nearest post/delivery service associate (usually corner store, grocery store or manned gas station)
Story 3: I've seen almost the same thing when I worked a walmart. But the shop owner was there to see how the guy was acting. And told him not to bother to show back to work. That the way he acted reflected badly on the shop.
@@gorilladisco9108technically it was a hostage situation since the OP was stuck behind the counter... I know it doesn't really count as one, but let's be honest, I wouldn't want to risk going anywhere, either...
Story 1: Calling the police demanding to arrest OP then telling them not to come is just asking the police to arrested him because police will assume he insane and a threat to everyone around him.
Don’t know which made him look more stupid. Thinking he can undo a 911 call for police in progress or that telling it to officers on scene will undo his arrest? Also he is insane.
@@acgearsandarms1343 It sounds more like the onset of dementia and not something you'd call insanity; but a medical diagnosis requiring understanding and patience.
Eric is so stupid forgetting that Walmart has those things called security cameras. Spin a tale as tall as you want Eric, but the truth and evidence will always win out.
yea... no. the amount of employees ive had to sit in on to watch them get fired over customer lies... corporations only care to keep customers. especially when they know the kids they hire are too poor to fight back
Final Story - I love it when people use entitled people’s own words against them. And I REALLY hope that OP decides to make good on his word and show up at Eric’s workplace and has a chat with his boss. I would.
He actually did! There's an update on Reddit saying that when he showed up, Eric folded like a deck of cards and apologized to both OP and the Walmart workers.
@@heidiv.zibrandtsen1838Too little, too late for that guy in my opinion. Apologies only matter if you mean it, not under threat. Plus he blew up his chance in the store to begin with. He told the OP and the worker to F off.
@@Cassiopea525 No, not an excuse. Racial insinuations, name calling, lying. Even at the worst of times, I don't know anyone who would do something like that. I've lost two very close sibs, one parent, two in-law parents, and we didn't come close to any of that. No, he was an asshat who had anger problems and decided to take out that anger at someone who didn't deserve it.
Darkfluff, you need to play the long game on the last story. OP has it right: Smile at him, ask to see his manager, and if you are talking with the manager alone, spin the fancy nice tale and have the manager call him in to verify it. Eric is probably going to walk in with a "Whatever this jerk told you is a lie" attitude, which will spark some really interesting followup...
There was actually an update to that story. I saw it on Best of Redditor Updates. Dude apologized to OP when he showed up and said he was going to go back to walmart to apologize as well. Apparently he was just having a bad time because of a recent loss in the family. Not surprised most missed it as it was deleted, but can be found on secure-raspberry-763 repost to best of redditor updates, including the photo proof of the dude being in a tire shop.
There was actually a followup a week or so ago. Long story short, Eric talked with OP when he showed up at store open, made what seemed like a heartfelt apology (as in admitting fault and knowing what he did was bs). He said he was actually intending to try to catch the employee on his break to apologize to her as well. But Walmart already talked to the boss, who walked in like a half hour later after Eric did (but early for his own time), and talked to Eric in the office. Op left not knowing what the end result was, and kinda felt bad for him.
@@lapetitemorte6307 okay? but i don't mind the video getting clicks. nor do i mind embellished stories being told as long as they're entertaining. it's like campfire stories, no one cares if it's embellished as long as it keeps the spirits up.
@baraka629 So, I'm curious... I'm genuinely curious about this every single time someone posts 'this is fake' on a story, bc it's usually for the weirdest reasons... why even post that? You weren't there, you weren't involved, why is it so important to insist everything that ever happened is fake? Weird crap happens all the time, the world is full of random circumstances & odd things. I mean, I've seen someone insist a post was fake based purely on a part where a 6yo tried to take a Christmas present away from another 6yo. So what is the point of commenting multiple times that something's fake when you have no possible way of even knowing that? Is it bc if it didn't happen to you, it couldn't happen to anyone? Is it bc it involves things or beliefs that you don't understand or ascribe to, therefore no one believes those things bc you personally don't? Is it purely for the likes/ karma/ clicks/ attention/ whatever & you don't genuinely believe it's fake?
Story 1 - For the record if someone calls 911 and the call either drops or you hang up on them they will send officers to where the call came from regardless in case the person who called is being attacked or something happened. So the guy was a total moron for 1. calling 911 over a stupid gift card and 2. For thinking that calling 911 back and ‘canceling them’ was going to turn out good for him.
I got a police visit once after having telephone problems and I was trying to fix it. I never called "911", but the system activated when the phone made and broke contact, the idea being that it might be someone in trouble.
The call centres that answer 911 calls (and similar) often have more information available to them than the typical caller display service available on regular phones. This can include the number called from even if would normally be hidden, and also location.
I have accidentally called 911 a couple of times while half asleep (apparently if you hit the side buttons on an iPhone a certain way, it issues an Emergency call to them). Both times, even though I hung up before the call connected, I got a callback from a 911 operator asking me if I needed help, was I safe, etc. Kudos on them for verifying my safety. I am glad that they take every call seriously because you never know if it might be a domestic abuse situation and someone is stopping another person who does need help.
Story 1: Making a second call to 911 and telling them to disregard the emergency call you just made is ADMITTING to misuse of emergency services. No way in the Nine Circles of Hell were the cops going to let THAT go. He dug his own grave. Story 2: What bothers me is that it was known for porch pirates to follow the mail truck and pounce. Since messing with the mail is a serious felony, why weren't more protective measures put in place? Story 3: I work retail, and our store does sell alcohol. BUT we have a separate register in that area, and all alcohol, and only alcohol, MUST be purchased right there. There are signs posted, and the main registers are programed to reject it. We also don't start selling it until 9am, so if any customers have it it means they either walked under or undid one of the ropes to do so. And yes, we get people who try to steal, and have to confront people who make it to the front and have no visible evidence that it was purchased. Seriously, the stories I could tell would fill a week's worth of Fluff's episodes.
I asked that too. Apparently they usually did this in groups of 2-3 people & one carrier who tried to prevent it was beat up pretty badly & almost run over. The local PO instituted a policy of no contact when they saw it happen, under the assumption that the people who didn't get their mail would report it & get whatever they lost replaced.
About the mail thing, it's only a federal crime if it was delivered by USPS. If it's Amazon, UPS, or Fedex, it's only a federal crime when they steal over a certain amount of $'s worth of products in those cases.
@@PurpleSunset82 Thank you. She's an amazing artist, even though I'm absolutely biased. 😀 I'm more into miniatures & step by step crafts with some modding. This was a perfect collaboration between us.
Story 2: As someone who is interested in the occult, witchcraft, paganism, and is actively making my own conlang, OP is my freaking hero. May all package theives step on legos barefoot.
The OP really should have put a hidden camera in inside the doll... Both to figure out who did it and for people to share the dude's reaction when opening the box 🤣
@@KaneLivesInDeath stolen property. Karen could not even have complained for the video being taken in their home.... That would have been poetic justice.
Incidents like the last story continue to baffle me. I'm already confused why so many people seem eager to destroy another's life by making stuff up, especially over things the person doesn't control. It baffles me still further that they'll do this kind of stuff in uniform. Like destroying one person's life isn't enough, they have to drag their job and all those employees into it.
First story: This is so far the biggest case of absolute self importance I've ever heard. I can't believe he thought he could boss anyone around without consequences.
Sounds more like he's struggling with the early onset of dementia and when that is developing people will become confused and agitated very easily. They get a notion in their minds and they can't unravel it. There is really nothing you can do for a person developing dementia, but be patient, understanding and wait it out. The police would likely get his ID and either contact his family, or take him to the hospital for care until they can reach his family.
Thanks, I try. 😈 People have suggested we start up a business around this & kiddo is down to do the customization. We're going out to look for dolls later this week.
Gift card story: You did well staying calm and collected during all that OP. At least the idiot didn't get violent, but I doubt it would have taken much for him to have gone that way either. I'm betting your phone ringing off the hook was 9-1-1 calling back, trying to get more info as to what was happening and hoping to speak to you. Most systems anymore when you dial them, shows your number on their screen and depending on the system may even give your address (land line) or gps location. I wonder if the gift card was stolen? Porch pirate story: As The Batman says: Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious bunch. Given they likely didn't have a clue as to what any of those scripts and symbols were/meant, it probably did scare the heck out of them. The only one they likely recognized was the pentacle. Eric vs Walmart story: Truthfully OP, I'd be telling John EXACTLY what happened.
The pentacle is one of the oldest symbols known to mankind. What I would consider hilarious is to add crude drawings of goats with candles on their heads.
Those things can act as caltrops. Why do you think parents keep telling their kids to put their toys away? The only thing I can come up with that would be worse than stepping on a LEGO is stepping on a four-sided die, or a thumb tack.
After the LEGO, they hit the corner of the coffee table & scared the dog into uncontrolled chaos! Running, barking, howling & screaming from the dawned LEGO stomper😂!!! Waking up the whole house & neighborhood, causing 911 calls from many😊!!!
@@lancerevell5979I was born in 1962. "Ageist" is a word I don't usw. Because it's dumb. It is a sign of how self absorbed milkennials qnd boomers are that rhey think they invented the Generation Gap. Hell, even Socrates conplained about "the young people", it's not new.
I wish I'd included some sort of geotracker with the doll. Gets returned - shows up on their porch the next morning, taken to the dump - guess who's sitting in your drivers seat that night when you leave the bar, driven to the next town over - now she's hanging from a noose outside your 2nd floor bathroom window at 3am.....
@@lapetitemorte6307 that is a genius idea, and if they frantically bang on the door asking for help to break the curse to say "put all of the seals back on, but that will only weaken the curse. the only way to make sure it doesn't return you also have to bury it on hallowed ground" oh and bonus points doing so while wearing priest's garb
No wonder the cops locked down the mall. Cause when you call 911 and say 'don't bother sending the cops, i took care of it', he's lucky it wasn't the S.W.A.T. team that showed up.
There was an update on the last story that got deleted, but preserved on best of redditor updates. He went to the tire shop. Eric actually approached op and apologized, and claimed he was going to go back to walmart to apologize as well. Dude was apparently having a rough time after a loss in the family and just lashed out. I think the repost can be found on secure-raspberry-763 submissions or searching best of redditor updates.
Story 1 I am betting he took the card either against her will or without her knowledge because he felt entitled to her gift for whatever he wanted. The way he spoke to OP and the 911 operator tells me he feels women are beneath him, and I suspect he felt the same about a gift to his wife- that it should have been his for his hobby or addiction or whatever.
Oh yeah, and pagans routinely salt the outside of a door and window to keep things out that don't need to come in. A lot of different churches (especially Catholics) use a tiny bit of salt with the prayers over holy water as a cleanser.
Story 1: The proof that the dude wasn't firing on all cylinders is that he didn't just use the gift card to buy something and then come back and get a refund in an hour or two. Story 2: I bet that the daughter is never going to have a package stolen again. The thieves have probably put every bit of bad luck they've had since, down to that "curse". Story 3: Oh, Eric needs to be fired. OP's being nice but Eric needs to go before he pisses off a customer and gets the business sued.
My cousin (a prankster) sent me a package at sleep-away camp. It was a creepy baby doll a lot like in story 2, just in an empty box. Without thinking I held it up, trying to figure it out (she didn’t put a return address so I had no idea who sent it). Apparently creepy dolls freak a lot of people out - I’ve never heard a sound like a cabin of synchronized screams since 😂 Whoops
I’ve heard about making a dummy package with dog poop and poopy diapers but that cursed doll was golden. I’m probably going to try it someday just for laughs.
Story 2 - Woooow… Talk about ‘If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing’. I love it! OP’s mom or dad should’ve also used watered down red paint or corn syrup and red coloring to really bump up the ‘Cursed item’ feel.
Perfectly justified. Stepping on metal jacks is even worse but kids don’t really play with those anymore. Flatulent ghosts, stepping on Legos or marinara sauce never clinging to pasta would all be perfectly apt and justified for porch piracy 😂
@@GAMEPRODELTA i saw this reddit story person put shrimp tails and other fishy stuff hidden around a house they were kicked out of. Put it in curtain rods n other hidden hard to get to areas….yeah they had issues with people staying there. Thats what these pirates deserve in their cars and where they live 😂
Last story. It would have been funny if Eric went to John after OP left and said “don’t listen to that jerk, everything he said about me was a lie. I didn’t do anything” 😂
Story 1: Gift cards no longer expire in Canada (as of 2012), as it is now considered theft. If you pay money to a card, it MUST be acknowledged and doesn't just 'disappear'. You paid afterall. Even online sites like Steam cannot discredit Canadian Steam cards for the same reason.
That first story is unsettling. OP did the right thing the entire time: She kept cool and polite, she got police involved (and in a very clever way!), she got the guy to stay where police could find him, and she didn't endanger herself any more than necessary by going to retrieve the phone. I feel bad for the callers, but I'm sure they'll manage. I wonder if one was his wife...
I have heard of people using old Amazon boxes for their kitty litter boxes and when they are full, they tape them up and put them in their front porch..
I have a bunch of old baby alive dolls I am trying to sort and figure out what to do with.... sell on Ebay, give to Goodwill, send back to Hasbro for recycling... Porch piracy got that bad where I was lived a few years ago, and now I am just thinking about talking baby alive dolls that can say "Today is a good day " in Klingon, with the Klingon growl voice. Maybe put in a motion sensor that also makes the head spin and eyes glow red, stuff like that. But then my daughter would just want me to keep them all instead.
I would covet the hell out of those dolls. I have a friend that reprogrammed a Teddy Ruxpin to sing Worlock by Skinny Puppy with full eye/mouth movements, & he used one of the original TR tapes to do it. I have lusted after that bear for years...
There's a lady that designed a werewolf baby doll and they're so realistic. I have two of them and I get stopped all the time at conventions to look at them. I've had hotel management track me down (I'm not hard to find in my wheelchair) to ask if I had a monkey in the hotel (someone reported me). I take them to conventions when I do book signings (I write vampire novels but have werewolves, go figure) and I had one lady who saw her and went WAY around the table, scared of her, and kept coming back to stare at it. I invited her to come hold it and OH NO! There was no way. Look up Werepups by Asia Ericson online, in the gallery there's a baby girl in a pink dress with reddish hair and a pink blanket...that's my baby.
@@Jedidiah_Martin_2But she does rock & can argue the merits of Star Trek vs. Star Wars with the best of them. I made her essentially as a movie prop from a bad 80's horror movie. That was my intent, anyway.
Story 1: He's gonna be out more than the $50 he couldn't get off the card. Hope that was worth it. Story 2: The lego curse is timeless. If shag carpet still existed in house on the regular I'd say may they be cursed to step on jacks in the dark of the night. Metal ones just puncture your foot (and maybe rusted at this point), but the plastic ones just shatter causing much more damage. Sans Tetanus. I have no patience for porch pirates and they deserve whatever karmic justice comes their way. Oh and I hope they get caught because tampering/stealing mail is a federal offense. And if the package holds medication... well there's a drug charge attached to that too now. Story 3: ALWAYS be on your best behavior when you are in uniform, even off the clock. Companies don't take kindly to employees who tarnish their name because you decided to be a crazy Karen. Also, even out of uniform don't be an aggressive asshat to employees. They don't get paid enough to deal with your entitled bs. It's funny how asking NICELY gets results quicker than screaming at everyone, maybe the Karen's should try it sometime.
Story 3 has an update in Best of Redditor updates where the dude apologizes and seems to genuinely feel bad. Says he had a recent loss in the family that had him in a rotten mood
@@Cassiopea525 Still doesn't excuse the action. Explains it yes, but does not give a free pass. He doesn't know if who he flipped out on was dealing with their own problems as well, and even if their life was all sunshine, still doesn't excuse the action. I'm glad he genuinely apologized later though.
Here's a story from my local Walmart. A woman and her fiance were grabbing a lot of items and they headed to the self checkout. The guy disappears while the woman bags her items and tries to leave without paying. A worker tells her she needs to pay as she raises her head in the air and walks out. Where the police apprehend her and her excuse to not being arrested for shoplifting was she was getting married the next day.
Story 1: if I had to guess the police can’t and wouldn’t do any thing over the situation, but thought OP wouldn’t know that. So he threatened but wasn’t prepared to be called on his bluff and was too stupid to back down. Which is why he was very vague on the phone. and after rethinking his strategy, that he could just cancel the police like they were pizza.
I irritated a telemarketer to the point that he said he put a curse on me. I told him that if can put a curse on me, I can return the favor and put one on him. His didn't work, since it was a death curse within 4 days. That was over a year ago. I don't know if mine worked or not. He never called back.
That's hilarious. How did you do it? I usually try to sell them a house that recent murders occurred in... murders that haven't been discovered yet. Or I tell them I'm lost in the mountains & didn't know my phone had signal & thank the gods they got through & if I'm surrounded please tell them to come out of hiding bc I'm so thirsty & hungry bc it's been 3 days & why are they hiding I just want to go home why wouldn't they just rescue me? That guy sounded so ashamed when he quietly said 'I'm sorry, nothing I said is true, I hope someone finds you.' before he hung up.
i would think the guy in the first story also got comunity service or a couple of months probation or something like that for the missuse of 911 with how many police that got sent there because of how he was accting.
I'm speculation the giftcard was given by man, to his wife, the total was maybe originally $100, but she had an accident, or got sick, passed away, and since she didn't use all of it just decided to get the left over back as cash, but maybe had this conversation about it with himself and convinced himself it was with someone else. The reason he got so angry and loud is because he thought the convincing conversation was with op.
That was my thought too. When I worked for JC Penney's back in the day we'd occasionally get junkies coming in trying to get cash back on gift cards and vouchers. A couple from what I remember had meltdowns in the store when they were told no.
Doll story: i had a grandmother who had a habit of opening parcels that were sent to her that were meant for others. Mainly, if we order a birthday or Christmas present for someone from a catalogue (yes, I'm that old), we would send it to her house so they couldn't c it and she would do the same. The only problem is that she thought she could open the package even if it was not addressed to her because it came to her house. She could not keep a secret to save her life, so she spoilt a lot of surprises. This problem was solved though when my parents got me a very special birthday present. A c.d case that was made to look like a lifesize Egyptian carcofigas. When she opened that package, she apparently screamed the house down. She never opened a package again after that.
The gift card, I don't think there even was a wife. Sounds like a tweeker found a gift card on the ground, or straight up stole, and wanted to try and get the balance as cash to go score some more drugs.
I think that giving the phone (which as it seems was the only way to call for help) to a person who is obviously becoming violently mentally unstable was not really a wise decision (candelabra not withstanding).
Story 1: You can cancel a 911 call Fluff. It is possible to do that. My mom has done it before since falsely called the cops because she thought I was in someone's house for a fighting game tournament.
Last story: I’m wondering how Eric treats the POC customers who come in where he works. I hope OP tells John the entire story about what happened at Walmart. Karma’s a biatch!
The second story was great. I eat curses for energy work, i dont promote bc obvious reasons. They did an amazing job😂 when i usually offer to cleanse the curses i get odd looks or polite declines. Never have i ever thought 2 cases of salt drowning a cursed object😂😂
The haunted doll one was funny. I had an issue with porch pirates too. One time I order a tea pot, some cozy socks, and some alternative feminine products (basically the most feminine and cheap package you think a cat lady or an old lady would get or what a grandmother would give). I was keeping track of the package and I thought I would be there when it would arrive. Well life happens and I wasn't around when the package should have arrived. I was upset but I joked to others I hoped the pirate was a coffee bro man. Well after that package was taken no one has bothered with taking anything anymore. I must have been right. Lol
I ordered myself something kind of silly and nice for my birthday ... my building has a perfectly nice vestibule where the mail boxes are but they left it propped in my door for anyone to see. Previously my lawn chairs been snatched off the doorstep, my present to myself would not have been there if I hadn't come home to grab it right away
I had that happen with Lootcrate boxes. Turned out it was someone in my building bc they rubbed their theft in by leaving the empty box in my mailbox. I figured out who it was & reported the thefts, turns out they were squatting & shouldn't be living there so they got thrown out with prejudice. They'd been blatantly stealing all the mail they could touch & a lot of it was found in their stolen apartment.
story 3, OP you did the wrong thing, you should have told his manager EACTLY what happened, being nice like that wont get him to learn his lesson like you think, it will just make him think you dont have the balls to get him into trouble
Story 2: I'd have just gone there in person and left a box of live spiders on her porch. Curses may be fine for someone who believes in them, but very few people wouldn't get the message with a legion of spiders. Speaking of, I suddenly feel like a cheesy 90s sci-fi villian.
Oh man! I had to stop the video with Story #2 because I was laughing so hard I cried! It's a PERFECT "Stranger Things"/"The Conjuring" form of revenge!!! Actually, that would make a pretty good movie . . . hmm....
I actually watched the Puppet Master series & Poltergeist when I was making it. That clown doll scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid & saw Poltergeist the first time. I had one of those dolls & it was under my bed with one arm sticking out when I got home from Gramma's that night. I refused to go into my room until that thing was out of the house entirely. Years later when I was going through my Da's house after he died guess what I found in the attic? My cousin said he heard my scream of terror from the street. They were going to demolish the house so before I left I used a nail gun to nail that fucker to the central support in the attic. Wrapped it in duct tape after I ran out of nails just to make sure. That thing still haunts my dreams.
OH MY GOD SALT that's one of the oldest thing about repelling ghost myth I've ever heard from the Westerners, as ab Asian Buddhist I know right away that the salt must be for this situation but never thought I would hear the story of it
Several religions use salt like that. Voodoo does, many of the pagan religions. The moment I heard that, my husband and I laughed, someone was VERY afraid of that box.
