Was wondering through a shop today and found Gulf of America hats…whatever, queue eye roll. Then I saw an Alligator Alcatraz hat, proceeded to knock it off the rack and stomp on it a bunch. Then knocked half the Gulf of America hats off the rack now that I realize this shop owner is a piece of shit. (Im in a vacationy souvenir shop)

I think nothing of it, figures the employees will pick up the hats and put them back on the rack…

About an hour later a police officer walks up to me in a nearby restaurant and says he needs to speak to me. Turns out the guy was went back and watched the security footage to ID me…the cop says the guy wants to prosecute me if I dont pay for the hat.

I get down to the shop (its a 14 dollar hat btws) and the guy acts like it was a Gulf of America hat I damaged (obviously trying to misrepresent the situation).

Im now not allowed in that shop for a year, as if I’d ever go shopping back there.

I explained to a friend what happened a while after it happened, after having a not great conversation about it with my inlaws who think “the guy is allowed to sell whatever he wants”

After I tell my friend what happened, he says its the coolest thing I’ve ever done. I really needed to hear that after having a shitty conversation with my in-laws about how they think what I did was stupid.

Anyway, made me feel much better because the shop owner is a piece of crap, and is trying to profit off other people’s misery, and I will never support that.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    My options were pay for the hat, or get arrested. There were two cops standing there telling me the dipshit wanted to press charges on me.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      Those were your options… after you started making a big scene and damaged their shitty fascist hats while having already purchased stuff from the store on camera. I 100% understand and support your anger with their making money off of the fact that we have a literal concentration camp in FL, but you absolutely set yourself up for that.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        I didnt make a big scene, I knocked a few hats off a rack and stepped on the Alligator Alcatraz one…nobody even noticed until like an hour later.