Wall Mart Rules?

Old-Biscuit wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:

old guy wrote:
One night was all I wanted in wal mart. some nut kept driving around the parking lot with his load muffler and car

There seems to always be some altercation going on at our local Walmart. My wife calls it 'punch out at Wally World'. goes on weekly. Not sure if it's drug related or what but certainly not a good place to set up shop at.

Local Walmart got so bad had to escort her In/Out when she went there.
I do NOT enjoy having to provide 'security'

Cops ended up in a shoot out with a vagabond family that had set up in parking lot, panhandling/intimidating/threatening folks.
One of the low-lifes was shot and killed

Town council immediately passed a 'No parking/Loitering Ordinance'
With it cops then had a 'legal tool' to move folks along
Seemed like overnight the whole atmosphere in area changed.
Love it!!

No more 'stealth camping' and cops are proactive ----good for shoppers, good for citizens, good for businesses----not so good for scum. YEAH!

At the same time, store management could have gone to the local cops and complained about these people, especially the harassing part, and the cops =could= have rousted them out...had they really wanted to. Yes, it would have been harder without a specific ordinance, but it could have been done. Hell, they could have complained about them trespassing, simple as that. Cops still could have been proactive about it by rousting people, telling them to move along, then having the manager file a trespassing complaint if the low-lifes continued to hang around.

Lyle