7-Eleven, the legendary comfort retailer recognized for candy outsized drinks and extra, discovered itself in headlines nationwide after a brand new video went viral highlighting why shoplifting can result in a fade supply. A California 7-Eleven retailer and its employees had a run-in with a really daring thief who landed on the dangerous enterprise finish of a picket stick.

As reported by TMZ and different shops, a 7-Eleven in Stockton, Calif. was the location of a person strolling inside the shop and shoving cartons of cigarettes right into a trash can who then tried to stroll out the shop with the stolen items. A employee cornered the person and his accomplice got here across the bend armed with a stick and unleashed a beating on the person.

If that wasn’t humiliating sufficient, the person swinging the stick seemed to be holding again as a result of he actually might have gone to city on Mr. Grabby Fingers. Nevertheless, the picture of the thief scrambling on the ground and getting beat with the picket stick will stay in our heads for a very long time.

It isn’t recognized if the unknown thief within the video confronted fees.

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