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Best Buy Invaded By Blue Shirt Improv Artists
deviantphil writes "About 80 Improv Everywhere agents invaded their local Best Buy store wearing blue shirts and Khakis. Eventually they were asked to leave, but not before capturing some great photos and video." From the article: "Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. 'Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,' one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. 'I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!'" Their inspired cellphone symphony from this February is also well worth checking out.
First, Policy:
Posted at the entrance to a store:
Persons impersonating store employees will be prosecuted for trespassing.
Later, Lobbyists:
Will introduce federal legislation to make this this kind of thing a felony.
In this day and age the manager, employees and customers were supposed to know this wasn't a mass crime being committed, possibly a large hostage taking incident for some political demands..how? Psychic powers? Those "improv" idiots are lucky someone didn't draw down on them. Real DAMN lucky. Some things are funny, this one certainly wasn't. Not even close. If I had been a customer in there I would have been sorely tempted to assist the legit management in a little attitude adjustment on the moron invaders. I know my first reaction would have been to see a serious potential emergency security threat. Which would have required some very fast emergency steps taken for risk mitigation purposes.
We live in a day and age with suicide bombers, hostage incidents, various weird groups with wild ass agendas, and who knows what, certainly not the imposter idiots, or they just might have thought of that. Perhaps they did and just didn't care. Dangerously close to swarming, happy slapping, wilding..or worse.
You just don't *fuck* with shit like that anymore, you don't mess around. You can do any number of other things for shits and giggles, you DON'T fuck with people's security or *perception* of security.
This is a new time, a new day, a few of the older ways to think/act/do are just GONE now. Not my fault, not your fault, but that IS reality now. I don't like it, but I live in the real world, and deal with real adults, not nintendo MTV comedy show videogame virtual reality world addicts.
You don't stand in line at the airport and "joke" about "Hi! Jack!". You don't go to the buffet and mumble under your breath loud enough so other people can hear you about "germs in the salad, wonderful, wonderful germs, THEY'LL SEE!" even if YOU think it is funny.
Hey, let's just throw some blow up mannequins out on the freeway and get some BIG LAUGHS as people swerve around dodging the "dead bodies". Won't that be funny? I mean, it isn't real dead bodies, so it must be cool to do that, right? And we'll VIDEOTAPE it for extra chuckles later on as we get wasted!!1!
Nope, what they did was lame, rude, stupid and I hope they get charged, criminal trespass, terroristic threats (a large group in what could be construed as identical gang colors or political group colors meant on purpose to decieve the legitimate people in the store is in itself intimidating and could be so construed as terroristic in nature, a felony in my state BTW) and a few other assorted charges. The store manager should be commended for showing *restraint*. The idiots are lucky several of them didn't get capped.
What reason? To cause havoc @ Best Buy and have them lose customers because of what looks like incompetent workers? Seems wrong to me.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.