right under their noses

A guy stole an entire bed from a department store. He walked out of the store taking the bed piece by piece, casually walking by servaillance cameras, employees, and customers. His face was clearly seen on the video footage and he took his sweet-ass time. The kicker: nobody caught him. I'm sure hundreds of people saw this guy and none of them said a word.

I'm wondering why we even have servaillance cameras and those damn beeping theft detectors at the front of the store. Have you ever walked through those things and they went off but the employees just say "oh that happens all the time.. go ahead."

We freak out that there are so many thieving ass-holes out there, yet when the situation presents itself we don't do anything! I know it's easy to say "I'll be a hero and save the day by stopping those robbers!" But why don't we do it? They might have a gun... but not in every case. The worst that could happen (of course) is that they do have a gun and might shoot you if you want to be a hero, but most of the time, they don't. What is stopping us? Do we just not want to get involved? Why not? Wouldn't it help if people stepped up? If I noticed a guy taking a bed piece by piece out to his car, I would suspect something and would tell somebody (mostly because these days everything, including bed sets, come in huge boxes, not individual pieces for you to carry out the store). I wouldn't just let him walk out of the store! What idiots are we?! And of course, it's much easier to say I would save the day than it would be to actually do it.

I'm just wondering why we make it so easy for thieves to get in, get out, and never be found. I know a guy a while ago took a friggin' matress from Wal Mart. Didn't Betty the humble Wal-Mart greeter notice something odd when the guy was just carrying this thing out of the store? Are we really so up our own asses that we don't recognize a robbery when we see one? Bah.. humbug.

Peace and snow