WENATCHEE — Police responded in force to Albertsons grocery store Tuesday evening and arrested a man who threatened to shoot a store clerk if store personnel didn’t sell him beer.
According to one of approximately five Wenatchee police officers at the scene, the man, who was intoxicated but unarmed, became belligerent when store staff refused the sale.
The incident occurred at approximately 6 p.m. No one was injured, police said.
From Wenatchee World
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such a shame….i need to move out of washington state.
This sounds like something that would happen at my store. Just tonight while I was working this guy starts throwing things and screaming the F-bomb down an aisle. As soon as he got to the front end he walks up to my manager and goes, “DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM?! Every time I come in here I feel like you all are watching me! I’m allowed to come in here without being harassed!” Background story: the guy’s weird, and super sketchy and used to solicit outside our store until he was kicked out for being verbally aggressive with customers and has been asked to leave the store on a number of occasions. Tonight though, none of us had any idea he was even in the store, let alone watching or harassing him.
He ended up exchanging some heated words with our loss prevention guy before leaving. I was positive he was going to come back with a weapon of some sort. Luckily, he hadn’t come back by the time I got off… but it’s scary when customers go from being annoying to just downright crazy.
Wow! I could understand it if it was chocolate, but all of that over beer????
I can totallly see this happening in our part of the world. The story would have been funnier if it was tampons.
Now thats crazy…Really tho, is it that serious??? I guess so in his case…Glad no one was hurt.
You’re making me scared to go to the grocery store! I know you work in one…there are crazy people everywhere! I love Gropius’ comment about the tampons!
A new occupational hazard in the grocery industry? That dude sorely needs to make it to an AA meeting.
Ha, I love the concept of being plastered by 6 pm on a Tuesday!
That’s as great a way to spend a vacation day as any I can think of…assuming he was employed
Or funnier still if it was Pamprin or one of those other pills that’s “supposed” to help with PMS…. who are we kidding… NOTHING helps with PMS… cept maybe chocolate, and beer, and wine, and….
Holy shit! Seriously!? What is wrong with people? Clearly someone did not plan ahead! You can’t buy beer in a lot of places on Sunday. Here you have to wait until after noon. Ruh-LAX dude! And get a Day Timer! Jeez!
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That is just weird. Was the guy underage?
I tried to buy beer on a Sunday morning one at 4am and when they refused, because of local ordinance I was so mad, but they calmed me down. Then I saw a man steal a case of beer and run out the door with it after he was refused. Amazing!