Christmas Shopping in LA: Pickaxe Wielding Woman “Robs” Local Rite-Aid

Here’s a feel-good public interest story for you. A woman was “captured” on surveillance video in Los Angeles, grabbing a few last-minute stocking stuffers armed with a pickaxe.

This is left-Coast California; it’s not as if she was going to get captured in any other way.

A woman carrying a pickaxe in broad daylight casually walked into a Los Angeles Rite Aid, stole merchandise and threatened store employees and customers, shocking video shows.

The bizarre footage captured the moment the unknown woman dragged a basket full of merchandise across the floor of the Rite Aid, in Venice, California, on Thursday morning.

 

Wait, there’s dialogue!

 

‘I’m not f*****g around,’ she says as an employee tries to ask her to stop as she makes a grab for beauty products.

‘I don’t want to smell like sh** when I’m knocking these b****** out,’ she adds as she drops a spray into the basket.

Before leaving, she tells everyone at the store, ‘Don’t say sh**. Shut the f*** up. Be quiet and follow suit.’

 

Fox News LA Report.

 

 

Does she think Santa was a foul-mouthed “gnome” and not a jolly-old ‘Elf?’

Exit Questions: LA County is lax on bail laws and preventing petty crime but does a pickaxe meet the armed robbery standard? And does it matter if she also stole the pickaxe?

Did she know she could have robbed the place without the gardening/mining implement?

And (finally) is the woman in the foreground of the screengrab I used as my featured image (had to share that WTF look) in more trouble because her mask is not covering her nose?

 

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