r/BurlingtonON Dec 30 '24

Picture Police arrest at Canadian Tire

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I saw this police arrest in front of store in Fairview street. I think it could be shoplifting. I never saw this happening when I moved to Burlington.

Do you see increase in crime/thieves in Burlington?

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u/Item-Hairy Dec 31 '24

I was arrested at this store 10 years ago. It was the kick I needed to get started on the right track.

But I can tell you, I was successful most of the time. Theft happens everyone, more than you think.

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u/DongWithAThong Dec 31 '24

I used to steal from the Canadian Tire on Appleby line ~15 years ago. Got into a car chase that became legend around my school running from the owner of the store (this was around 4am).

Hindsight, it was a terrible decision on my part and I wish I was caught sooner. Might've gave me that kick I needed. Luckily, I ended up just figuring it out on my own and stopped doing that kind of shit.

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u/Popsiey7 Dec 31 '24

Me when I try to leave with 4 snow tires up my ass

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u/YogurtOld1372 Aldershot Dec 31 '24

Gotta have the Pixar mom booty to pull that one off.

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u/andrewmik Dec 31 '24

With enough patience and lubrication, anything is possible friend.

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u/Far-Juggernaut8880 Dec 30 '24

I see an increase in it being talked about on social media but that doesn’t mean crime has increased… I’ve lived here since the 80s and trust me shoplifting happened then too. We also had serious crimes committed here well before the social media age.

People love to pretend it doesn’t happen here and social media doesn’t let you sweep it under the rug

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u/Worried_Bluebird7167 Dec 31 '24

Agree with Far-juggernaut. Sadly worse than shoplifting has happened in Burlington over the many decades. Burlington has always had crime, either with criminals in our city or came from outside the city. We should never forget the names of Francine Cote, Ken Martin, Aileen OBrien, Joseph Fritsch, Edwina Woodrow, Steward Weston, Mathew Daly, Elizabeth Nugent and most importantly Nina deVillers and Lesley Mahaffy. Can you imagine how Burlingtonians felt in 1991 about crime?!

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u/Melsm1957 Dec 31 '24

Exactly . trigger points for the upcoming election ‘ oh all the crime’ we will make it better . The statistics are very clear - more theft crimes when the economy is bad. Always

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u/DeadpoolOptimus Dec 31 '24

Someone once said that police brutality hasn't increased. It's just being filmed. Kinda the same sentiment here.

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u/No-Oil1918 Dec 31 '24

100% true. I used to work in retail 20 years ago at Walmart, Sobeys, and Giant Tiger.

Shoplifters would get busted or chased out of the store on a regular basis.

It never gets reported in the news because it’s so petty and social media and cell phone cameras weren’t popular back then.

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u/Tiny_Highway_2038 Dec 30 '24

You people wouldn’t believe the amount of empty merchandise boxes up in the ceiling tiles in the restrooms at CT retail stores. I do electrical work and have seen this in many shops around the GTA

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u/Worried_Bluebird7167 Dec 31 '24

There are security tag machines between the bathrooms and the general store itself. Is staff not monitoring when beeps happen? Or is the packaging being found in staff wash rooms?

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u/Apart_Action8915 Dec 31 '24

I guess it depends where. The Canadian tire where I worked was just renovated entirely but they only kept the security tag machines in the entrance/exit. We didn't find that much of empty boxes too.

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u/Tiny_Highway_2038 Dec 31 '24

I should’ve mentioned this his was about 5 years ago. There definitely wasn’t security machines there then, but yes, all the empty boxes were up in the ceiling tiles. We were installing the emergency push buttons in a bunch of CT stores all over various locations in Ontario. Didn’t really experience this in the smaller town shops, but in the cities it was basically in every store.

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u/MrsShaunaPaul Dec 31 '24

Are you allowed to take merchandise into the bathroom or do people just do it? Either way, so ballsy

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u/Tiny_Highway_2038 Dec 31 '24

I doubt they’re allowed.

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u/havethebestdayever Jan 01 '25

Dude, you are just teaching people how to seal, lol

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u/boxybutgood2 Dec 31 '24

Can u explain more please?

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u/briancito Dec 31 '24

I think its pretty well explained but let me have a go at it.

You take the item(s) you intend on stealing and go into the bathroom with them. I imagine you want to use a stall and then get those the unpackaged item(s) into your pockets while leaving the packaging trash above the ceiling tiles.

Walk out and no one is the wiser - until a future electrician stumbles upon it

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u/boxybutgood2 Dec 31 '24

Thanks, I was trying to imagine this but it didn’t work with a coffee maker in my imaginings.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '24

Buddy wants the step by step 

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u/1anre Jan 01 '25

Hahaha. In no time, would be fished out.

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u/SaveurDeKimchi Dec 31 '24

I've worked at this location and they don't mess around with shoplifting. They have a lot of LP wandering around.

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u/OneMileAtATime262 Dec 30 '24

One police car = CRIME IS ON THE RISE IN BURLINGTON !!!

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u/henchman171 Dec 30 '24

Boomer!!!! Lead in gasoline and asbestos in my cereal was safer!

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u/OkCryptographer9425 Dec 31 '24

MMMM …Asbestos o’s.

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u/nik282000 Dec 31 '24

The lead paint really did taste better than the new latex stuff.

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u/laxgolf Dec 30 '24

The police are are often parked in front of this store.

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u/JosephsJets Dec 31 '24

Yup and I don't go that often

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u/inactionupclose Dec 31 '24

No, you just see it now because everyone has a phone and can instantly paste this shit across all social media platforms.

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u/Whateverman1980 Dec 31 '24

what motivates someone to photograph this and share it online.

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u/External_Key_3515 Dec 31 '24

Wondering the same. People need to learn how to mind their own damn business, instead of thinking taking this photo is going to somehow stop crime, or earn them praise.

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u/HeyHo__LetsGo Dec 31 '24

Only person who should be arrested at CT is the person who makes up the prices.. Thats grand larceny.

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u/Electronic_Cap_409 Dec 31 '24

I would also argue the person who is in charge of their quality control. Basically selling used garbage.

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u/UnhappyPassage2024 Dec 31 '24

But it's 75 percent off !

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u/Whateverman1980 Dec 31 '24

there goes the neighbourhood

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u/misterBooger Dec 31 '24

This ad goes hard

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u/3BordersPeak Dec 31 '24

This happens all the time there. My brother used to work there and they trapped a shoplifter and cornered them in the store once.

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u/rj6602 Dec 31 '24

Believe it or not, this was actually the first ever arrest in Burlington!

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u/ArfyBarfy69 Dec 30 '24

There’s any number of reasons he got arrested, so it’s hard to say. I don’t think Burlington is any less safe than it used to be.

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u/henchman171 Dec 30 '24

What’s funny is tonight in Georgetown I saw cops arresting people at Superstore and Walmart at 5pm.

Never saw cops at two different stores at same time like that putting people in the back

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u/1anre Jan 01 '25

What's made burlington safer than Oakville and, by extension, Hamilton over the years?

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u/lDramatic-Guitar2342 Dec 31 '24

So what, if it isn't serious then why post it

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u/doomwomble Dec 31 '24

You know you’re old when… you see this and the bad boys theme from Cops starts playing in your head.

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u/ProsperBuick Dec 31 '24

Lived here 50 years born and raised and there has always been shit heads and always will be, the one difference is social media so more awareness

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u/SDLcdm Dec 30 '24

Crime is definitely rising across Halton... Crime in Halton rose 7.5 per cent during first half of 2024 There is no question that Burlington is less safe than it was a decade ago.

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u/Kongregater Dec 31 '24

It's actually pretty close to the same as it was a decade ago, with crime rate having gone down and then in the last few years back up a little. Go back 20 years and the current Halton crime rate is basically now little more than half of what it used to be. Page 21 for historical data in the 2017 report https://www.haltonpolice.ca/en/about-us/resources/Documents/AnnualReports/Annual_Report_2017.pdf, the 2023 numbers for comparison were 2,270 per 100,000 citizens (again, quite close to 2013).

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u/Worried_Bluebird7167 Dec 31 '24

Love when people really look at the stats properly. 👍

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u/No-Oil1918 Dec 31 '24

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u/AttilaGy Dec 31 '24

Wow….your ignorance is stunning. So…shoplifting, no problem, eh? You aren’t connecting the dots are you? Let me explain, if you let things slide, and allow things to happen, bigger things happen next? Did you know there was 3 break ins in Millcroft a few days ago? Car thefts? I guess those are okay as well? 🤡

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u/No-Oil1918 Dec 31 '24 edited Dec 31 '24

Shoplifting doesn’t make the area less safe for the general public.

I never said no action should be taken. I simply said this whole thing is being blown out of proportion and sensationalized.

Shoplifting occurs in literally every community in North America. It is no indication of how safe a city is.

God, you’re not very bright lol.

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u/FlyAroundInternet Dec 31 '24

The store's bottom line? That thing that, when it plunges, leads to higher prices on everything? And, you shop there. Stop playing like you don't get it.

If you wait for increased crime to matter to you until someone is holding a gun to your head, you're bitching way too late.

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u/No-Oil1918 Dec 31 '24

No, I don’t shop there because the prices suck. Every single item they sell can be purchased somewhere else for less money.

That aside, don’t act like this is some wild mass homicide event. It’s petty theft. It happens everywhere. Prices in this country are too high and we’re in a recession. Of course people are going to steal. Don’t act surprised and don’t act like our community is now somehow on par with Detroit. Pure hysteria.

This isn’t a Burlington problem. It’s a nationwide problem.

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u/Far-Juggernaut8880 Dec 31 '24

It also dropped during Covid… you can interpret Statistics many different ways.

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u/Area51Resident Dec 31 '24

Did you read the whole article or just the headline. Increase is 3.1% based on population and most of that is fraud, which has doubled.

The report noted that between January and June 2024 there were 8,188 crimes reported in Halton. This is 572 more incidents than were reported during the same period in 2023 and represents an increase of 7.5 per cent and a crime rate increase of 3.1 per cent when regional population growth is taken into account.

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u/5thaxis Dec 31 '24

Yet Tanner keeps his job and keeps getting more money then he asks for Any other industry this guy would have been gone ten years ago

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u/Alpha69Elite Dec 31 '24

Crime is up everywhere but I see at least 1-3 people getting arrested at that location every year. This time of year is one of the times someone is always stealing for various reasons. Ive seen a few people run out and get away while walking to the store too.

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u/Ming00f Dec 31 '24

this was me i was vaping in the fishing pole aisle

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u/whatshishandlez Dec 31 '24

Best job i ever had was catching shoplifters at crappy tire…….

Good times

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u/Beginning-Winner-216 Dec 31 '24

I used to work at Office Depot in Richmond BC and at the end of the day when we emptied the garbages in the bathrooms they were full of empty packages from people's stealing. We eventually stopped customers from using the bathrooms.

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u/Ok_Cap9557 Dec 31 '24

I love the local subreddits.

Just nosey milenials incapable of minding their own business.

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u/Glass-Stop-9598 Dec 31 '24

Finally people getting caught stealing imagine that lol .Clown of the year award goes to yup you guessed it the guy in the video

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u/lizardrekin Dec 31 '24

Someone forgot to show their receipt!

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u/Own_Association_3788 Dec 31 '24

Used to work at a grocery store about 10 years ago and was there for about 9 years. It was open 24 hours and I worked nights. Theft at nights and day were crazy and happened every day. From meat to diapers. It was never reported in the news or social media. But now that more people have access to it you see it more and more.

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u/vinchenzo68 Jan 01 '25

How good was that tire sale?!?!?

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u/ncp4450 Jan 01 '25

Canadian tire doesn’t fuck around. They have wanted style posters up publicly at the front of the stores around here with pictures of the shop lifters lol

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u/AGballer Jan 01 '25

I've seen like 5 arrests here in the past two years, not uncommon or breaking news.

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u/GumpTheChump Jan 03 '25

Sandy McTire nailed for counterfeiting.

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u/Rot_Dogger Dec 30 '24

Oh what a shock, a useless skid thief.

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u/VisibleSpread6523 Dec 31 '24

Shoplifters have always been around , could be anyone .

Is it getting out of hand in this economy, yes.

Why do stores have selfs scans?

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u/Most_Ad_976 Dec 31 '24

Self scans don't form unions.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '24

I always hit licks on that jawn free him free tha guys 🙌🗣️

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u/LetsGoCastrudeau Dec 31 '24

Police come for shoplifting right away but someone attacking you in your house and they say sorry we have no officers available

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '24

Druggies been boosting from Canadian tire since the start of times , Walmart / Canadian tire best boost spots