Witnessed a very interesting heist on Woolies

Aboriginal transgender Female, rocking a pink mini skirt, a black arm cast, a pink hibiscus flower hair clip, black handbag, and a white crop top.

if you can image that, you have the main character for a well orchestrated heist that left me quite amazed at their ingenuity and understanding of the human psyche.

The transfemale started shouting obscenities saying how white people were thieves, stealing their land and wealth, go back to England. this obviously drew some looks… now she had her audience….

During the tirade she was abusing no one in general, but she was looking for a target for the next stage of the act. When one Woolie's employee made an announcement for counter assistance to clear the long line, she found her target. She strode over to the poor lady and called her white trash, living in the "projects", challenged her to a fight, and threatened physical harm for, what the transfemale perceived, to have been a call for assistance to come handle a disturbance (the transfemale). The poor lady had to contend with the abuse shouted into her face and smell, that at 5m away, even I was aware of.

I believe that this was to get her captive audience to look away from that point on. Because after the challenge/episode with the lady, no one wanted to make eye contact to avoid any awkward situations with the transfemale. That's when she had set the optimum conditions to secure her objective, two coke bottles in the quickgrab section at the front of the store.

She stuffed those two bottles down her handbag and walked off shouting "how dare you try to make a profit on our land". All this time, her accomplice (a white guy, ironically) was distracting the bottle shop employee (the only other shop there, situated opposite woolies and the only one with a possible view of the shoplift) They walked off laughing at how successful their plan was.

Colour me impressed, their blitz on woolies left everyone stunned while their secured their objective.

I saw the lady manager who had just come out, holding a walkie-talkie, obviously having been notified by her staff about the disturbance and told her that I saw the Transfemale snag two bottles of coke, and she said "well "'m not gonna confront her, am I?" This reminded me of another ozbargain topic: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/279644. Which made me question why did I even bothered to go back and inform them about this.

TL:DR: Transfemale used her understanding of people's aversion to awkward situations to snag two coke bottles from Woolies.

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Comments

  • +2

    Lol I bet thats not the only "coke" a transgender grabs…

    • +20

      I Pepsi what you did there.

      • +14

        This whole thing's left me feeling a little flat.

        • +3

          Another Woolies post. the fizz is gone

        • +1

          @D6C1: i have zero tolerance for this behaviour

      • +1

        It takes 2 to tango

    • +14

      Why didn't they Dr Pepper spray her?

      • +5

        Yes, they should mountain Dew it

        • +4

          You guys should show a Lilt more compassion

      • +17

        These puns are soda pressing

        • +3

          Indeed, it needs to stop Sprite now! Even though it did, just under 10 hours ago.

        • +3

          Why stop when it is so Fanta read.

        • @jominix:

          I'm not a Fanta of their actions.

          But impressed at their non-Solo coordination.

        • @blehgg: the security really should have a low fizz tolerance so they can slam her down fast

  • +37

    All that for 2x 600ml cokes

    Wow

    • +9

      I reckon. They could have at least flogged a flaggin of wooblah and a pack of Winny blues.

      • +3

        not sure he could reach over the counter for the smokes even if he wanted to

        • +10

          They probably could've walked out with arms and bags full of whatever they wanted in today's politically correct society.

        • -1

          @Scrooge McDuck: I personally find people spreading fake "isn't PC awful?" stories much more annoying than the pretty low levels of PC you find in Australia. (I genuinely wish we had a reputation for being PC instead of ignorant racist bogans!)

    • +4

      If they'd only checked out the second post OP linked to, they'd see they could basically just pick up the bottles of coke in plain sight and walk away - scott free!

    • +1

      At least it's not Pepsi

    • Times are tough

    • Those things cost a fortune though!

  • +63

    Crazy. Should have taken two bottles of Voss water instead

  • +5

    So person that appeared to be aboriginal, drunk and transgender plus they smelled awful yelled and screamed abuse at people and then committed larceny.

    What a wonderful story!

    I was waiting for the bus one time and after standing over a girl that was about half his size trying to rob her a person of a similar appearance and smell walked up to me and rammed their finger into my face as hard as they could. He was aiming for my eye which he luckily missed.

    • +13

      So person that appeared to be aboriginal, drunk and transgender plus they smelled awful yelled and screamed abuse at people and then committed larceny.

      They should've worn a hijab for the ultimate victim trifecta: "This is my land you white cisgendered infidel!!"

      Could fit more goods under it too!

  • +3

    Ticking the box for every minority. Did you film it?

    • +2

      nope, was not quick on the draw this time.

  • +5

    did they also yell "this is myyyy land!"

    • +3

      only about 5 times… but who's counting? lol

      • +7

        I'm wondering how much of this harassment that they gave, that they get in their every day life.

        It sounds like they were begging to be harassed, but weren't at all.

  • +40

    NSW Police here. We need more details. Were the coke bottles 600ml or the 1.2 litre ones? Was it Vanilla, Diet, Zero or Ginger?

    • +32

      It was Coke Life… so nothing to see here. Move along.

      • +2

        HAHAHAHAHAH BOOM

      • +8

        It was Coke Life

        Did Woolies a favour!

  • +3

    You could have gone viral if you videoed it ;)

  • well its true ! no argument there but funny

  • +17

    2 cokes and this is labeled heist ?!

    • +6

      I think you missed the sarcasm.

    • +3

      "witnessed a shoplift" sounds a bit bland, after all…

    • +1

      click bait

  • He could have simply stuffed 2 bottles of anything in his urine soaked pants and walked out with the same result.

  • +33

    The irony is that people in the self checkout probably stole more without the floorshow.

    • For all we know, they were in on it!

    • Please explain.

      • +1

        There are alarming statistics about self checkout stealing being commonplace. Putting on a pantomime to steal is kindof retro, when subtle methods are right there and mainstream. And no, I proudly don't (I buy weekly specials and come to ozbargain for the grocery preview). I'm just saying the act was needless with honour based self checkouts and loose policing.

        • maybe they aren't up to date on their statistics..;)

  • +17

    Funny everyone's angle on this I see the true crime as the bullying and abuse on the poor checkout lady on crappy wages.

  • All that effort for 2 bottles of coke ?

    They must have thought it looked like booze

    • yeah, its dumb, but they sure looked smug as heck at their pull.

    • I've caught people stealing no fills AA batteries which were right next to lithium packs.. nothing surprises me these days.

  • Thanks for sharing. It was indeed interesting, though sad for the perpetrator and the checkout last week had to deal with it.

  • never thought i could combine the two solutions into one post….the day has come…

    bikies and eneloops

    oh…and they are dumb because they are readily identifiable…unless the TG outfit was temporary.

  • Damn junkies

  • I hope someone called the po-po and they got their ass in lock down for a while?

    • manager didnt care for that at all, hence the reference to the other forum post where woolies dont bother with shop lifters

  • -6

    By trans male, you mean a F to M transgender person right?

    "The man started shouting obscenities saying how white people were thieves, stealing their land and wealth, go back to England. this obviously drew some looks… now he had his audience….

    During the tirade he was abusing no one in general, but he was looking for a target for the next stage of the act. When one Woolie's employee made an announcement for counter assistance to clear the long line, he found his target. He strode over to the poor lady and called her white trash, living in the "projects", challenged her to a fight, and threatened physical harm for, what the man perceived, to have been a call for assistance to come handle a disturbance (the man). The poor lady had to contend with the abuse shouted into her face and smell, that at 5m away, even I was aware of."

    • May not be perfectly worded but I understood it.

    • these new gender classifications do my head in. I am referring to his bio-gender. anyway, he was dressed in skirts and all.. so that should be a clue as to what i meant

      • Perhaps he aspired to be a drama queen when he was a kid

      • +4

        Man dressed as a woman, pronouns should be female. If unsure, use they, and if the person isn't batshit crazy, ask them what they prefer. Could be transgender people using OzB who would be hurt reading some of this, so it's always kind to use respectful language even if the subject of discussion needs to be locked up.

        • +4

          Why is it impolite to call people weird if they look weird? Next thing I know is I am not allowed to call the night black.

        • +4

          @cameldownunder: You can call people weird if you want. I'm talking about using the correct pronouns for transgender people. It's no skin off your nose to do it, it spares some feelings, so why not? It's not political correctness, it's simple respect. The person in the shop sounded like a total weirdo on so many levels, but using the right pronouns in spite of that protects the Ozbargainers who may be transgender and feel like an outsider in their own society.

        • +1

          @cameldownunder: Is calling the night black further marginalising a subgroup of the population with an already ridiculous self-harm rate?

        • +5

          your comments are fair enough, You gave me easy to follow guidelines in an attempt to help me address people with respect and made no attempt to criticise my ignorance, i really appreciate that. in this case, i will refer to the main culprit as a "her". i edited the post too

        • -1

          @cameldownunder: The person in Woolies nicking 2 cans of coke sounds like a nut job regardless of gender or anything else for that matter. I hope that's PC enough;)

        • -1

          Report OP to HRC under 18C. They will take OP to court and make some serious $$$.

  • The description almost sounds like Johnny Haysman.

  • +1

    That's a lot of effort for some bottles of Coke.

  • +4

    I think the real heist was occurring in the bottle shop across the aisle. Things go better with….

    • Agreed, the performance was for misdirection.

  • +3

    Heist seems a little grandiose to describe that.

    What you actually observed was the distraction, the real theft occurred somewhere else in the store by another accomplice. It used to be a common scam in NYC when black Americans would stage a domestic on the street while the pickpocket accomplice got busy.

    • ah well, you know im trying to tell a story… haha

      • +2

        And it was a great story to read.

    • +1

      Yep, just another of the infinite variations on the oldest trick in the book: "distract people and swipe stuff", partnered with the second oldest: "distract people while your accomplice swipes stuff", although this is more brazen than many.

      It's fascinating to watch things like this though. I've heard of cases where a woman is accused by a shop keeper of shoplifting, and to prove her innocence, she gradually removes her clothing. Meanwhile a third accomplice helpfully lightens the load of those who stop to gawk.

  • No point confronting them. Their face is on camera, on record with the police and facial-recognition will likely pick them up at some stage too. Security will drag [appropriate gender selection of the week]'s ass into a holding room for the po-po next time they stroll into the shopping center anyway.

    There's zero point getting into a scuffle or fight with some unstable random off the street over a bottle of softdrink. Their more than likely carrying AIDS, or god's knows what other sorts of communicable diseases. Let security or the police handle it. It's what they get danger pay for.

  • +4

    TL:DR: Transmale used his understanding of people's aversion to awkward situations to snag two coke bottles from Woolies.

    how about

    TL:DR: Transmale harasses and threatens to assault store staff, commits petty theft.

  • +1

    That's a lot of effort for two Cokes.

  • Sounds like the perfect missed opportunity for a top autotune YouTube remix video.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

    • Did you follow the stink quoting 'hide your kids, hide your wife' at Apple headquarters caused?

      • +1

        It's not really a work appropriate topic. Silly boys.

        Saying that… Have you watched the Netflix show incredible Kimmy Schmidt?

        LHere's another one that I thought was catchy and controversial:

        https://youtu.be/AIPD8qHhtVU

        Would appreciate your thoughts

        • +1

          I'm just amazed at the talent of some people. That's very good.

          I recently went through a Death Grips vs each of vaporwave (MacIntosh Plus), eiffel 65 and The Cure phase. I still can't believe they can squeeze Death Grips into anything.

  • Mr flower pot forgets to mention if he lived his lifestyle in ancient aboriginal tribal culture he would have been basically beatened up or executed a long time ago…

    • her boyfriend was a white male too, so she is full of ironies…

      • i agree, i was just pointing out the bullshit of people romanticizing aboriginal life before whiteman. Im not denying early setlers did bad things to aboriginals, but aboriginals were hardly an y better to their own tribe.

  • Man I hate scum like this! I just wish we could rid them of the planet because lets be honest there is no loss to anyone if people like that are gone!

  • +4

    I see ozbargain comments have turned into Reddit..

    • +1

      +1 for forlorn passive aggression.

  • +1

    Should of Yelled:

    "FOOOOOOR EQUALITY" and king hit the bitch.

    and then said "thats for assuming my nationaility"

  • +2

    In 100yrs, when we break from our neanderthal mindset, we will understand that people with mental illness should be cured and not sent through the revolving door. Back through the system with the rifraf again.

    • Not being enlightened myself yet I can't really predict the actions of the enlightened.
      But is it possible that, in this scenario, they may conclude the person is not mentally ill, there are other options, just different or clever but a bit of an a-hole, this almost sounds like a dare/bet or initiation to me ?

  • Your initial description reminded me of every Final Fantasy game that I've played :)

  • That's medieval.. too much effort for 2 bottles of coke.
    I've seen people dressed like hobo just walk out with shopping bags full of stuff… now this is stealth…
    Woolies don't know what hit them until it's too late

  • +1

    Why risk for sugared water when they should take he same risk and steal billions?

  • I saw the same thing at Toys-R-Us a few weeks ago. Two ladies separated near the check-out counters, made as much disturbance as they could about needing a drink of water - and went out with their over-filled trolley setting the door alarms off. No one wanted to go anywhere near them; as the OP observed, we the audience had a high level of aversion to the chaos. I never thought it was about the water as it just seemed so beautifully choreographed.

  • How did you know she was transgender?

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