The proverb is “If you can’t say something nice then don’t say anything at all.” Police in San Bernardino slightly amended that. “We’re supposed to do nothing against vagrant criminals, so we promise to do nothing against their victims, either!”
Calif. arcade owner storms homeless camps to grab back stolen X-Men machine, other loot after cops tell him their hands are tied
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By Jared Downing, 1 December 2024
The owner of a California arcade that was looted by a mob of vagrants ended up raiding nearby homeless camps looking for his stolen merch after the cops told him their hands were tied.
GamerGate goes analog, baby! Buckle up for a real-life Call Of Doodie on the sidewalks of… not San Francisco…
Moments after Will Luna closed up his Extraordinaire Arcade in San Bernardino on Wednesday night, a woman who had been hiding in its attic dropped down and unlocked the door, security video shows.
Then a pack of at least 18 people spent the Thanksgiving holiday — Wednesday night into early Friday –stripping the business of anything that wasn’t nailed down, including an X-Men arcade machine.
“They were just in there, in and out. They had a free-for-all,” Luna told The Post, speaking from a BestBuy where he was buying high-end gaming monitors to replace the ones the criminals made off with.
The homeless thieves also stole the arcade’s security cameras, gaming consoles, a debit card reader, snacks, the keys to all the game machines and even an X-Men arcade cabinet, which they dragged toward a nearby homeless camp, security camera footage showed.
Luna said police performed a basic investigation into the despicable crime, but before the cops got anywhere with their probe, a vagrant told him Friday that he had spotted the owner’s stolen merchandise at a homeless camp behind the building. Luna said he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Ahh, but it wasn’t that simple!
At one point, Luna called the cops, but he said the responding officers told him they weren’t allowed to enter or move the tents.
“I said, ‘Why can’t you guys just move this s–t and go in there?’ They said, ‘We can’t.’ It violated homeless rights,” Luna recalled. “I said, ‘I don’t give a f–k about how many rights they have. These people have my stuff.’ ”
Eventually, Luna and the police reached an arrangement, he said.
“They said, ‘We can’t go inside, but you can.’ So I did. I kept tearing that s–t down.”
Good enough, cops, good enough. If you won’t punish the perps then at least don’t punish us, either. Relax, watch the sunset and let Nature find a way.
Luna said he didn’t find his most valuable equipment, including several PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch consoles and his prized X-Men machine.
The looters also broke into a salon next to Luna’s arcade, smashing the windows and stealing the register.
He said all of the businesses in the little retail and worship center — which includes a pizza restaurant and a church in addition to the salon and arcade — have been broken into in recent years as three nearby homeless camps have grown.
He said men would stand next to the windows of the salon and masturbate while gawking at the female customers, pushing the owner to call the cops to clear them out.
Absolutely unacceptable.
Shortly after, someone set the shop on fire.
“They’re f–king with us hard now,” Luna said.
Well done, Luna! You didn’t just take the fight to them… law enforcement has a whole new strategy for countering the anarcho-tyrannical demands of the Marxist State!
MOAR!
‘We can’t go inside, but you can’: Arcade owner repays homeless encampment after vagrants ransack his business and police hands are tied
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by: Matthew Holloway 2024-12-03
I am posting this article mainly for the sheer joy of a police-news site putting the strategy at the lead of the headline where nobody can miss it. Quiet-quitting isn’t just for the private sector!
SAN BERNADINO, CA - Will Luna, owner of the Extraordinaire Arcade in San Bernadino could only watch on helplessly as he observed at least 18 homeless people strip his arcade to the bone on security footage from now-stolen cameras. Although a homeless good Samaritan told police where Luna’s stolen equipment and merchandise were taken, the officers were powerless due to laws protecting “homeless rights.”
Luna told the officers that his equipment was found. So Luna went there himself. “I just went through all their tents. I started knocking that s–t down,” he said. “I was ripping all the tents up. And I start finding my stuff.”
"I feel violated," Luna told KABC. "I’m extremely upset." No arrests related to the burglary have been made. The owner estimated to the outlet that his losses could amount to as much as $12,000.
While there’s no doubt that the Heritage Americans of San Bernardino are happy to start getting nothing for their tax dollar… a definite improvement… a society that does not care for its members’ needs, is a society with no legitimate reason to exist.
i guess that X-MEN Arcade Machine is the Konami(as opposed to the average 1 on 1 fighting Capcom ''Children of the Atom from '94) one from '91? The Konami one is based on the legendary first super popular into the early 1990s TMNT arcade Game from 1989 that most of us of a certain age put tons of quarters in(i especially for one at a local Food Lion in 1990 and '91 after it left my local arcade in late '89). Anyway, the one the guy in the story has must be this $599(Arcade 1Up Arcade1Up X-Men 4 Player Arcade Machine (with Riser & Stool) - Electronic Games ) version of it that can be bought at places like Amazon and Walmart.
i mainly like GUNNER bringing back GREAT memories from 33-35 years ago in this post.😊