Who said you need to go to Nigeria or LA or NY to notice the state-of-the art ideas on robbing/stealing/deceit. You can find it all here from the young minds, in Kuwait.
The other evening I was on my usual not-so-exciting stroll in the local Cooperative store here. Just then saw a young Kuwaiti Kid, maybe 9 or 10, jumping up near the frozen foods counter, picking up a roll of what looked like some pre-printed bar-code labels. The next moment I hear the footsteps of one of the employees running towards him and what followed was a cool chase through the dinghy aisles of the supermarket. He accosted the kid and took away the labels. I thought that this was much-ado-about-nothing. Intrigued and amused with the ordeal so far, I asked the store-helper, as to why would a kid want to run away with barcodes stickers which are worth nothing and why was he so adamant to take this away from him? I would imagine them running away with Superman/Batman/Spiderman stickers instead.
What he told me was startling- To say the least!!! This was something which is a real eye opener on what is happening to the future generation of Kuwait. Apparently these kids take these low cost barcode labels, then attach it to some of the more expensive items and cart them away. THIS IS PLAIN SIMPLE ROBBERY IN DAYLIGHT.
This is something very serious. I think the think-tank of Kuwaitis should take notice. The store-worker who took this away from the kid knows darn-well that he will return back again and again until he succeeds. And, he cannot even call the security or the police, or even their parents, as all his explanations will fall on deaf ears and it will cause him more trouble from his store manager or the parents, who would usually be well-connected and will side their children. By the looks and the dressing the kid did not look like he comes from a poor destitute family. Im sure the kids know that they are above the law. This is really alarming!!!!… Who said you need to go to Nigeria or LA or NY to notice the state-of-the art ideas on robbing/stealing/deceit. You can find it all here from the young minds, in Kuwait.
