Fox News hosts call for retail businesses to arm their employees to stop shoplifters
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Citation From the July 6, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Five
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): If you have a supermarket or any kind of store, you have these guys that just hang out and they wait for the people to leave, then they take their stuff and they get, like, 10%.
CHARLES HURT (CO-HOST): You get, like, a posse.
GUTFELD: It's basically a product posse. And so they just hang out there, and then it's like -- let's say they take $500 worth of stuff, they'd get $50 if they take the stuff from them. It actually sounds like a lot of fun for kids for a summer job.
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HURT: I actually love that idea. I think that it -- you'd want people to kind of know what they were doing. You'd want armed people to be doing it, and to do it.
GUTFELD: That's not my idea, but I love it.
HURT: But it is amazing that you have all of this concern about liability where it sorts of cuts against the employees. What about the liability for the employees? You're creating -- I think the legal term is "attractive nuisance" by having a store that doesn't enforce shoplifting, doesn't enforce this kind of theft. Aren't you endangering your employees? And why can't employees get together? I mean, I would think -- I think it's a Constitutional right you have, even if you're at work, to be able to be safe in your environment, to be able to protect yourself.
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Defend yourself.