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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1714445, member: 37498"]Nice! I figured as long as the guy wasn't from out of state there would be someone out there who knows him and is willing to give him up for $5000.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure about Indiana, but boots are the norm for UPS drivers around here.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My first reaction when I read the headline was inside job or insurance fraud, but I think the employee was the owner's son, and they didn't have insurance. Of course he could have been in on the heist, but not likely. As for moron? Meh. Possibly. But not because the UPS imposter was wearing boots or because the employee let him in the store. Maybe the owner and the employee(s) feel safer signing for packages inside the store than they would keeping the UPS guy out on the public sidewalk while signing for packages. It appears this time that the store was empty due to the early hour, but quite often there's probably a customer or two in the store when the UPS guy shows up. Would you leave a customer unsupervised in the store while you sign for a package out on the sidewalk? I wouldn't. Maybe it is store policy to sign for them inside the store, or maybe he just did it out of habit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way I think it's a little presumptuous for any of us to be judging the owner of the store based on an ASSumption that he didn't have a gun or panic buttons in the store (Tim), or that the victim was a "complete moron".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1714445, member: 37498"]Nice! I figured as long as the guy wasn't from out of state there would be someone out there who knows him and is willing to give him up for $5000. I'm not sure about Indiana, but boots are the norm for UPS drivers around here. My first reaction when I read the headline was inside job or insurance fraud, but I think the employee was the owner's son, and they didn't have insurance. Of course he could have been in on the heist, but not likely. As for moron? Meh. Possibly. But not because the UPS imposter was wearing boots or because the employee let him in the store. Maybe the owner and the employee(s) feel safer signing for packages inside the store than they would keeping the UPS guy out on the public sidewalk while signing for packages. It appears this time that the store was empty due to the early hour, but quite often there's probably a customer or two in the store when the UPS guy shows up. Would you leave a customer unsupervised in the store while you sign for a package out on the sidewalk? I wouldn't. Maybe it is store policy to sign for them inside the store, or maybe he just did it out of habit. Either way I think it's a little presumptuous for any of us to be judging the owner of the store based on an ASSumption that he didn't have a gun or panic buttons in the store (Tim), or that the victim was a "complete moron".[/QUOTE]
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