Meanwhile, someone tried to rob the neighborhood Starbucks I was at today...
He wasn't violent or anything; this one guy apparently just picked up a Verismo coffeemaker while everyone was busy with other things and quietly walked out the door. I saw the guy carrying the box, but figured he must have paid for it already. There's security cameras that monitor everything in Starbucks, after all.
Then the guy sitting across the table from me asks if that guy paid for the Verismo. The baristas take note, and I abandon a perfectly good game of Tetris Battle in order to help them swarm the black Ford F-150 that the thief just climbed into. As we mill around, one barista demands the coffeemaker and gets it back without a fight. At this time, I'm standing behind the truck trying to block him in for the cops, and we get his license number. (Dealer's tags, if that means anything - maybe a stolen truck?)
And then, while we're all preoccupies with the guy in the truck, his dumb little buddy tries to raid the Toys For Tots bucket and sneak out with the goods. We catch him, and he surrenders the toys without incident. Finally, he climbs in the truck with his accomplice, and after the barista informs these idiots that they're being reported to the cops, they drive away without further incident.
Cops just came by and talked to the barista in charge. Hope they catch these two Grinches. Merry Freakin' Christmas.
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I didn't think of that - I didn't think a salesperson or lot owner would be boosting stuff in a car with dealer plates, though 
Back on Christmas Eve in 2009, the family was bundled up in my car when we ran into a surprise blizzard by the lake. We started spinning out on the ice, but saw an SUV on the hill ahead of us losing traction and sliding back towards our car? What could I do? I jumped out of the car, slip-sliding on the ice, and turned myself into a tackling block for the SUV to crash into so that my wife and in-laws wouldn't get hurt. (Neither did I, and the folks in the SUV were glad Christmas didn't get ruined by a traffic collision.)
I appreciate your advice. If these guys were acting psycho, I might have given them a wider birth. But the driver was acting like a deer caught in the headlights when the barista marched up to his door.
Still, I will try to be more careful in the future. 
Instead of walking it in, he left it at the doorstep--near the sidewal. So the IPAD that my daughter's boyfriend purchased for his mom was stolen.
Who knew something like that could happen?
My sister and I had a discussion about it yesterday. I'm glad I have a PO box. I try to use USPS instead of UPS or FedX because where I live in Utah, packages are left on the front porch all of the time. 
TYY
for some huge corporation's coffeepot. 
