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quilter1 06-30-2010 03:29 AM

This guy was filmed on Saturday afternoon in Toronto, Ontario. This was the weekend of the G20 summit and the city was terrorized by riots and vandals. The video was taken on the main street of downtown Toronto after the protesters had smashed hundreds of windows, burned police cars and rioted in the street. The shops were all closed of course. This desperate guy just had to shop somewhere! By the way, this is not normal in Toronto, we have a beautiful and safe city.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHIZ2Jl2vuQ

sewcrafty 06-30-2010 03:46 AM

WOW!! Never have been that upset that I couldn't spend my money! :-D

sheilainoz 06-30-2010 04:28 AM


Originally Posted by sewcrafty
WOW!! Never have been that upset that I couldn't spend my money! :-D

what not even on fabric ... lol

Fiber Artist 06-30-2010 05:08 AM

they were closed because of people like him,to much mouth!

aliaslaceygreen 06-30-2010 07:07 AM

Yeah, that's basically how the public actually treats retail employees, btw...

A year or so ago, a car crashed into our plate glass window. It landed in our cash office, not in the shopping part of the building, thankfully. And no one was hurt. It happened around 5 pm. The fire department and building inspectors insisted we shut off our electricity for about 20 minutes while they checked the structural stability of the building but they didn't ask us to evacuate. So we had customers shopping still, and we had to manually ring everything up,(finding prices, writing down skus and calling for credit authorizations.)

It was tedious and many people just asked if we could put their stuff in a bag with their name and they'd come back at another time, which we of course were willing to do.

One woman went off the deep end. And another 4 or 5 complained for the next few days about how ridiculously inconvenienced they had been by not being able to make their purchases.

I instructed the cashier to glue a smile on her face and say as sweetly as she could, "yes, ma'am, we are ALL just glad that no one was HURT" and keep repeating it till they got a clue...

Another time, there was a tornado in NJ and the gov declared a state of emergency and JA was closed for about 3 days while we waited for electricity....and Every day we had someone in the building, on the phone with frantic customers worried that they wouldn't get the labor day pricing of the merchandise that they had had to abandon in their shopping carts!!!!

Priorties, people, priorities!

sharon b 06-30-2010 07:22 AM

LOL They did it to irritate him AND keep him out :shock:

amma 06-30-2010 07:43 AM

WOW!!! What an attitude... and he wonders why they won't let him in???? :roll: :lol:

RatherB Quilting 06-30-2010 10:08 AM

Wow! Wish I had sound on my computer...He yells the WHOLE time!

sewcrafty 06-30-2010 05:16 PM


Originally Posted by sheilainoz

Originally Posted by sewcrafty
WOW!! Never have been that upset that I couldn't spend my money! :-D

what not even on fabric ... lol

I didn't think he was at a fabric store!! :lol: :lol: Now that definitely could be a different story!! :lol: :lol:

quilter1 06-30-2010 05:41 PM

He was banging the doors of a huge shopping mall in downtown Toronto. What a guy!!


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