Hero grandma goes viral for stopping alleged Walmart shoplifter TwitterA heroic grandma has won the internet\u2019s heart after a video surfaced of her trying to shop an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Canada. It\u2019s not every day that you see an elderly person step in to confront strangers, but that\u2019s exactly what happened in an incident caught on film when a man appeared to leave a Walmart without paying. In the video, a man is seen leaving a Walmart with a shopping cart full of goods and a bike when another individual, presumingly the one filming, asked if he was \u201cgoing to pay for that.\u201d \u201cYeah,\u201d the alleged thief replied while still pushing his cart towards the exit, trying to leave in a hurry. What he didn\u2019t expect, however, was for a brave elderly woman to take matters into her own hands. https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tr00peRR\/status\/1488195374116491267 Elderly woman fights accused shoplifter After using her own shopping cart to block his path, the woman yelled \u201cexcuse me\u201d and tried to pull off his balaclava and reveal his face. Once she successfully pulled it off, the man kept trying to get away and found himself in a tug-of-war as the grandma pulled on his cart. \u201cF**k off, a**hole!\u201d she exclaimed with the confrontation escalating and eventually even successfully stopping him from taking the goods with him. \u201cYou jack up the price for everybody else, cause of you a**holes!\u201d Video of the incident was originally posted to Facebook by Darrell Johansen, who claimed he had alerted police and that there were other theft issues at the Campbell River Walmart. \u201cI spotted this guy within five seconds of entering the store and knew he was about to run, and this is the result,\u201d he wrote, according to Newsweek. \u201cWhoever this lady is that ripped his mask off, I\u2019ll take you as my partner in crime-fighting anytime.\u201d In the time since being uploaded, the clip has been reposted to Twitter and has been viewed over 800,000 times with many commending the woman for her actions, though some noted she is lucky the man wasn\u2019t armed. Regardless, potential thieves may want to think twice with this grandma ready to throwdown and roll back her sleeves if things get confrontational at Walmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hero grandma goes viral for stopping alleged Walmart shoplifter TwitterA heroic grandma has won the internet\u2019s heart after a video surfaced of her trying to shop an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Canada. It\u2019s not every day that you see an elderly person step in to confront strangers, but that\u2019s exactly what happened in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}