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justletmelive wrote

I agree with the majority of your post, but "don't shit where you eat" isn't a meaningless platitude. Really, that one has a lot of practical application when you're a criminal of some sort.

It means don't rob the bank where you go to withdraw $100 every two days and are on first-name basis with the teller. It means don't keep twenty pounds of heroin at your house under the mattress where there might be an investigation/raid if you're a small-time dealer. It means don't obviously launder huge amounts of money through the company you're relying on as a source of legitimate income. It means don't poison yourself. Might seem like common sense to some, but you'd be surprised how many people need to hear it.

I'm not sure it applies to low-level shoplifting, as I do steal ticket or misdemeanor-level amounts from stores I'm a regular customer at, but I wouldn't pull a massive heist or try to commit credit card fraud at one of these places.

Also, it depends on the store whether or not cameras are being watched. They probably aren't at Whole Foods, they almost certainly are at Kroger's, and Walmart varies from location to location, day to day. Cameras are cheap these days, and a lot of the ones on the wall probably work well enough. You're right that they're more for reviewing big incidents after the fact, but there are LP in stores like Walmart who walk around the store watching the cameras on their phones.

I do agree that as long as you're not doing a walkout with ten laptop computers after picking a lock with burglary tools, all you need is proper technique.

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