Security guard disenables and gets canned for it.
Disenabler of the Month
Dean Babcock, who after a 30-year stint as a police officer with a lot of drunk-driving crashes in his memory banks, became a security guard for Target. When he saw a teen-age girl shoplift a $45 bottle of Patron tequila, he confronted the girl, took the bottle and called her father, who was thankful to learn what his 16-year-old was up to. Because Babcock wasn’t authorized to stop shoplifters, even though no “authorized” person was on duty store officials canned him. Although he said he understood Target’s policy, Babcock explained, “I am not going to let a 16-year-old girl walk out of here with alcohol.” Let’s hope another store recognizes the value of having a Dean Babcock on duty.