Dad asks 'where's the parents' after store complains to middle school about 100 or so students raising hell in the aisles



A Massachusetts dad asked "where's the parents" as a WFXT-TV camera rolled for its Wednesday story about a supermarket that contacted Medway Middle School to complain about students — around 100 of them — repeatedly wreaking havoc in the store on days when students are dismissed early.

"Where's the parents?" Eddie Enos asked the station. "That's what I say. Where's the parents?" He added to WFXT hypothetically that if he found out his son was taking part in that kind of behavior, it would stop immediately.

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What's the background?

“Over the weekend, I was contacted by the director of Shaw’s Market, who shared alarming information regarding a troubling trend involving our middle school students who visit Shaw’s on half days,” Principal Amanda Luizzi wrote in an email to parents, WFXT said.

The station said the email added that "a growing number of students are engaging in disruptive behavior while visiting the store. This includes building ‘forts’ out of paper towels, riding in carriages and electric carts, knocking over displays, and even stealing merchandise. These actions pose a risk to the students involved and customers of Shaw’s. They also reflect poorly on our school community."

Luizzi also asked parents to speak with their children, WFXT reported: “I am asking all families to partner with the school and have a conversation with their children about the importance of respectful behavior — in Shaw’s, in any business in the Plaza, and school. Please also speak with students about the potential consequences of their actions should this behavior continue.”

A spokesperson for the grocery chain told the station the students' behaviors have been “negatively impacting” shoppers as well. But WFXT added that as of Tuesday, the Medford store hadn't implemented a ban on students entering the premises.

‘Alarming’: Mass. middle school asks parents for help as students terrorize Shaw’s grocery store youtu.be

How are folks reacting?

Over 400 comments have appeared under the WFXT story published on Yahoo! News, and the reactions are varied. Here's a sampling:

  • "How is this a school issue?" one commenter wondered. "If the same kids did the same thing on Sunday, would their church be responsible? School is dismissed...the school's responsibility for what the kids do should be over. Parents demand full authority over everything that schools do but accept zero responsibility. Call the cops. That is their job."
  • "The school is asking parents to control their kids. The parents are the ones who didn't teach their kids how to behave in the first place," another commenter noted. "I wonder how that is going to work?"
  • "Walking to and from school is a privilege (unsupervised free time). The school needs to tell the parents that children will stay on campus until picked up by an adult on half days — including unexpected closures," another commenter suggested. "Inconvenience the parents for the rest of the school year and see how quick those kids straighten up."
  • "I think it might be worthwhile on half days if an army of parents descended on the store to surprise their little angels," another commenter offered.
  • "Where are police in this town, at the local donut shop?" another commenter asked. "On half days the police should have a presence at this store and take into custody any students [who misbehave] and fine the parents for their child's misbehavior. Perhaps the parents should have to go to the store and clean up the damages their kids have done also. Oh that is right, no one is responsible for what their kids do anymore, my bad."

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'It was alive and moving': Woman buys box of organic spinach that turned out to also contain a frog



A Michigan woman purchased a box of organic baby spinach that came with a nasty surprise inside: a live frog.

In a report by FOX 2 Detroit, a photo showed the frog inside the box of Earthbound Farm baby spinach.

"My daughter was screaming. She was like, 'Oh my God, it's a, it's a frog," Amber Worrick said. "It was alive and moving," she noted. "Just thank God I didn't eat the frog."

The box says that the product is "TRIPLE WASHED."

"I don't believe that it's washed," Worrick said, arguing that if it had been washed, the frog would have been caught.

Worrick had purchased the product at a Meijer supermarket.

"The frog was carefully relocated to a new home outdoors. This product came from Earthbound Farms, one of the many farms Meijer partners with across the country to stock the freshest produce, delivered to our stores daily. We have provided the customer a refund," Meijer noted in a statement, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The outlet also reported that Taylor Farms, which owns Earthbound Farm, communicated the following message via email: "We are in direct communication with our customer partner and the consumer to express our apologies. Food safety and consumer experience are the top priorities for us and we are looking into how this happened and how this can be prevented in the future. Our organic farming practices help promote biodiversity and healthy ecosystems on and around our farms. We will continue to work tirelessly to provide the freshest, finest quality veggies for consumers."

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Supermarket thieves pull off 'organized' heist as onlookers watch, record video. Even license plates were removed from likely stolen SUVs used in broad-daylight caper.



Who needs to work for a living any more when we're seeing, time and time again that all you have to do is mask up, fill a shopping cart, and casually walk out of any number of stores with no one daring to try to stop you?

And we already know that store employees are least likely to get involved lest they lose their jobs.

Well, the upside-down tragicomedy has spawned yet another sequel.

What now?

You could be forgiven for assuming the latest brazen, caught-on-camera theft took place in California, where lenient laws have emboldened many crooks.

No, this time it happened — of all places — in Oxford, Connecticut.

Cellphone video recorded four masked individuals loading shopping carts full of unpaid-for merchandise from the Market 32 store into a pair of SUVs just after 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, WFSB-TV reported.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

The clip shows the quartet silently and frantically tossing items into their waiting vehicles as onlookers just watch and record video.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @WFSBnews

At least two of the witnesses likely were store employees, as one is heard on video yelling to another to not interfere: "Don't! You're gonna get fired! That's why prices go up because of these [bleeped word]. Can't get a job like the rest us."

And the caper continued with no resistance as the crooks soon entered their SUVs and sped off.

Here's the full clip:

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Multiple people seen walking out of an #Oxford grocery store yesterday morning with shopping carts full of items they didn\u2019t pay for\u2026 Details from police -> https://tinyurl.com/2vaatza2\u00a0pic.twitter.com/CKlsdfMCNY

— WFSB Channel 3 (@WFSBnews) 1636565252

The suspects got away well before the arrival of police, who said they were notified about the theft a full 10 minutes after it took place, WFSB reported, adding that store manager wasn't commenting.

"Had 911 been contacted in a timely manner, police personnel would have been able to attempt to intercept those involved," police said in a press release, according to the station. "We would like to remind everyone to stay vigilant and not to engage with people like this when a crime is occurring."

Well-planned 'organized' heist

State police told WTIC-TV the four individuals in question are suspected of stealing $1,600 in goods such as detergent and paper towels, adding that a larceny of that dollar amount is considered a misdemeanor.

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"Information sharing has developed leads that they are most likely going to be trying to sell those items on social media as well as in their communities that they live in," Resident Trooper Sgt. John Acampora with the state police told WTIC.

More from the station:

Police said at least two of the suspects have committed other crimes of this kind across Connecticut and outside of the state. Police believe the two vehicles used were stolen.

Police said they've identified two of the suspects but can't release their identities with the investigation ongoing.

"They were organized, they knew what they were doing, they had no plates on the car," George Temple, Oxford's first selectman, added to WTIC.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @WFSBnews

Anything else?

"It's very unusual that anything like that happened here, and I guess while it's good that it was caught on video so they might be able to get the guys, no one was doing anything about it," Vinny Brophy from Beacon Falls told WTIC. "They just kind of let it happen."

Mark Krassner of Oxford noted to WFSB that it's "terrible" that "people have to resort to this, but I think you're gonna see more and more of this, you know, with the price of food going up, everything going up."

Those with information about the theft can call police at 203-888-4353.

Video: Suspects steal shopping carts full of items from CT grocery storeyoutu.be

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