I'd love to go shoplifting the 50s!

Man this would have to be the golden age to have been a booster. I can't imagine how easy it would have been

one of the things that make films like this so wonderful is their timelessness. there truly are no new tricks..nothing new under heaven, so to speak.

I'm really learning a lot from these old timey shop lifting tips and tricks! It's going to be the best Christmas EVER!

Damn I’ve worked in loss prevention for the past 14 years and just realized that thieves have been using the same old tricks over the years. Also, interesting 🧐 to learn that there were junkies in the 1950s who stole just to support their drug habits.

18:50 those are some nice Pendleton wool shirts. Today they'd be vintage

Great tips on how to shoplift lol

I just realized the term “Booster” is used today!

Wow. Even the drug addicts looked classy back then

I always walk into Walmart with my cardboard box and jacket over one shoulder. It’s not suspicious, it’s auspicious.

This is why the best stores have a dress code

This film is actually from the 60s, as I see a lot of 60s GM cars.

There is a some music score heard here used on the some of the older Yogi Bear cartoons!

Shoplifting is such a rush 😊

Before they had alarms at the door. I don't think it was beyond 1960s technology it was before it was necessary. Because I remember when I was a small boy in the 1960s they had a electronic eye at the supermarket. I would walk through it just to hear it buzz till someone said hey kid stop playing with that lol.

LOL watch out for the drug addicts stealing coffee percolators!

I didn't know they had floor walkers back then. I seen them on old British sitcoms like are you being served.

Time to break out my bloomers and go Christmas shopping!

I'm taking notes 👀👀

Mama whipped me at 6 years old for walking out of a store with an unpaid toy. I never shoplifted again!

The intro song reminds me of the theme song on "Highway Patrol".

Back then, shoplifters looked like bank presidents.

I don't know if the box trick will work today. People are very suspicious of boxes these days.

I don't know how I even noticed this, But the opening music was used in the movie Creepshow. (The lonesome death of Jordy Verrill. Doctors office scene. )🤔

taking notes

Can you imagine seeing a store clerk who doesn't have tats and a few pieces of metal in her face?

Now just how in the hell am I supposed to leave without anyone noticing I have a wholeass coffee pot or waffle iron under my jacket???

The pregnant booster with sticky fingers.

Heck nowadays just get yer hommies go into a store, take walk out with whatever you want. In some places keep in under $900 and your are good to go!

In the 50s. Everyone WAS 50!

Today they probably wouldn't even get near a jail!

I Know back then those businesses had no security patrol or cameras to combat shoplifters until decades later because this is why these places go out of business because of these shoplifters .

What was that in the car in the beginning of the video?

The clip starting at 9:50, i get how the clip after they showed how she did it, but where in the fist clip (starting at 9:50) did she do that? Ive watched it over & don't see it lol

i think there was a Leave it to Beaver episode about shoplifting.

Those stores look dark and weird

Excuse me, did you just come up behind me to my car?? Maybe you should rethink that. This will now be the worst day of both our lives.

They r basically showing you how to steal in this video! 😂

I thought people were civilized in the '50s unlike today

These women all have hair like my grandma😂😂😂

Try to get the average police department around here to take shoplifting as seriously as the department in this film. They won't. It costs money to handle shoplifting so they won't bother.

why was it called boosting?

This video was made when small businesses were the norm. And I agree don’t steal from small businesses or people but as for Walmart that’s a different story. Don’t really know who’s robbing who with them. What butheads instead of hiring more cashiers to fill the mostly empty registers, they treat everyone like a thief and force you to do the job of people they used to pay but prices have not come down. Corporate profit records on record margins. This video is out of touch with the current economy. As they say, back in the good old days days. Can you imagine what you could of bought for a dollar back then, but thanks to the federal reserve that same dollar doesn’t buy you a drink of water

My great-grandfather was arrested for shoplifting in Kansas in 1959… and received a 50-year prison sentence!! That might seem insane today, but statistically crime was much rarer back then… He passed away in prison during his 31st year of incarceration, at the age of 83… I miss him every day ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

It was a much better time, shoplifters dressed respectably and weren't tweaked out bums running out the door with a cart full of stuff.

No the average mens jeans of good quality are at least $100

I get it was much easy to get away with back then. What's with the Psycho music

They say once a thief, always a thief pre judging him as being unable to reform. It don't look at the bigger issues at play causing him to do that. Now he'd have a hard time finding work because criminal backgrounds go too deep into his business. While there may be times when a background check would be appropriate, it disproportionately affects minorities and adds to the problem of recidivism. In the name of protecting society, release from jail is undermines ad paying one's debt to society and when they not given chances, as they said the jail did nothing to help him whilst he was in there, it really does hurt the whole society more than it helps. I'll give an example. I'm in AA. Sometimes when a new person comes in, we know sometimes addicts steal to support their habits, yet we may very well give that person a church key and have them open up, make the coffee and set up. We demonstrate the faith in that person. Many people who were given the coffee position early on have stayed sober because of that. So why would we deny someone who stole, possibly out of desperation and having to survive, decent opportunities? Lemmetellu1thing. God don't like ugly. Everyone makes mistakes.

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@ 8:35 "That's a man...baby!"

Ever notice how focus on blacks n Latinos on this film even anti drug films depict m as addict or dealers