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Some lady tried to steal my friend's 3 yr old son at Costco

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  1. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    My good friend was in Costco today and had her 3 yr old son in the shopping cart. She turned around to talk to the sample lady for less than a minute, and when she turned back around, the shopping cart was gone. No one saw where the cart went. Needless to say my friend freaked out but was level headed enough to run to the front of the store to tell the manager. They locked down the store immediately and searched for him. They found him in the cart in the back aisle of the store. He didn't even realize that he was missing because he was looking at an avengers book the whole time.

    That afternoon Costco called her after looking at their surveillance videos. They said a brown haired lady push the cart right after my friend turned around. She went around the meat area and was headed towards the front door. At this point, the store was being locked down, so she immediately turned the cart around and went to the back of the store and left the cart. Unfortunately they did not get a good shot at her face.

    I'm just happy her son was found. If my friend didn't run immediately to the front of the store, I fear that the lady would have been successful in her abduction attempt. I know this stuff happens but its crazy that it happened to one of our best friends in an upper middle class neighborhood. My son and her son play together almost everyday, and my wife was invited to go shopping with them this morning. Crazy stuff.
     
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    Holy crap? Which Costco was it at?
     
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  3. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    Great Hills
     
    #3 rockbox, May 17, 2012
  4. tamericus

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    Wow, that's scary stuff. To turn away for a second and your son is gone, I don't know what I would have done in that situation.
     
    #4 tamericus, May 17, 2012
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    Crazy & scary indeed. Glad your friend's son is safe, was found safe.
     
    #5 J.R., May 17, 2012
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    What is wrong with people...unreal.
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    Luckily Costco only has one very small exit, so it was really easy to lock down.
     
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    How did she go to the back of the store without any of the Employees knowing??? If everything was locked down in result of an emergency and a lady is seen going to the back door, wouldn't the employees notice?? Maybe she is an employee herself or the custodian lady?? I shop at Costco all the time, where the heck is the back door???
     
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    Miss read it? She was headed to the front door. But the place went on lock down so she pushed the cart to the back to ditch the cart / kid.
     
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    Jesus H. Michael, this place and these new threads are making me like

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    That is why you should never avoid the noisy carts with the ****ed up wheels. That's weird that she didn't even hear the car being pushed or anything. The sample lady didn't see or say ****? Maybe she was in cahoots with the abductor.
     
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    Glad she and.her son are safe! She and the store manager did a great job.

    Normally i would bash the mom for not watching their kid closely enough, but i know how easy it can be to just take your eyes off your kid for just a brief moment at a store like Costco.
     
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    He just said she went to the back of the store and left the cart there. I assume she then walked to the front of the store and excited unnoticed once the lockdown was lifted.
     
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    bigtexxx would get so pissed at his driver if he let this happen to his child.
     
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    If I was the store manager I would of kept the store on lock down after the child was found... called the cops, let no one exit and have the cops look at the surveillance video and find the b****.
    Though I give props to the mom for some quick thinking. I know some mothers that would go on mental breakdown mode.
     
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    The front door is located in the meat area?? That's one weird shaping Costco, did he meant the front door/entrance??? It's usually where the customer service section is near the front door... The meat section is usually in the back of Costco, no???
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    She did a U-turn. Took the cart through the meat area, and headed towards the front. Saw the store was getting locked down, and headed to the back of the store and ditched the cart with my friends kid inside.
     
    #17 rockbox, May 17, 2012
  18. VanityHalfBlack

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    Austin of all places...
     
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    whats with all the crazy women down south who steal babies or who kill their kids?

    i wonder what the common denominator is with these women.
     
    #19 txppratt, May 17, 2012
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    ****in A man... I go grocery shopping with my neph and neices all the time. We run around and sometimes hide from each other. Definitely not doing that **** again.

    **** you bad people. I hope these people would get hit by a train.
     
    #20 Jontro, May 17, 2012
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