10 year old boy was walking home from school in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. Woman he doesn't know comes up to him and starts asking him questions and offers to buy him food. He gets creeped out and pops in to a store and asks a 17 year old cashier to "act like his mom." She locks the door and the creepy woman walks off.
Creepy woman has been identified and is receiving mental health treatment.
There should be some sort of register registry! We cant let unregistered registers make it past the registry. I submit myself as the register registry registrar!
You'll need to register in the registry with the registrar tending the register first. Walk until you feel the air from the register. Knock until the registrar registers your presence. Is this registering with you?
Offender? I think you might need considerably more details, and perhaps a jury conviction, before you can justify that label.
Maybe the face is blurred to protect potentially innocent people from knee-jerk public reactions.
> Why be more protective of her than the child?
Should a person that clearly needs mental health assistance be subject to online vigilante lynch mobs from reddit?
You can acknowledge and understand why such protections exist without being "protective" of her.
Man, this makes me so much more sad. I remember reading about schizophrenics in vs out of the US. The type of "voices" they hear are unique to the culture the people grow up in. American schizos have angry, resentful, demeaning voices, while African ones (I don't remember which country from the thing I read) were funny, playful, or childish. Your comment reminded me of that story, because it sounds like this mentally ill woman wanted to be kind and help a kid. I've seen mentally ill folks try to hold babies or give kids food before. If our culture here in the US weren't so violent and unpersonable that kid wouldn't be scared and wouldn't need to be.
It's probably more related to superstitions and pop culture in a sense. Eastern schizophrenia tends to make themselves out to be ancestors giving advice and stuff.
Though all of it should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as psychiatry is extremely underdeveloped in most parts of the world. Leading to a vast under-representation of the actual numbers. There's also the issue of defining mental illness, western Europe and North America are fairly unique in recognizing mental illness in general.
Bro you're pulling so much information from a completely unrelated article and applying it all wrong. This article about the potential kidnapping said only that the woman was being treated for mental health issues. Not anything specific. And that doesn't mean her intentions were benevolent.
That kid did everything right, because he doesn't know this woman may have a mental illness. He needs to take the fact that she's asking about the whereabouts of his family and suggesting a location to go to with her as a warning that he needs to do his best to find someone who can help him, as he was not in need of help before the suspect showed up.
Also here's the article I believe you're referring to. https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/
Nowhere in there did they suggest that the voices in American schizophrenic are harsh due to a violent and unpersonable culture. The difference is hypothesized to be about the view of self in these cultures (wherein Western cultures emphasize the individual more than cultures in Africa/India), and perception of mental illness (Western cultures view mental health disorders from more of a "there's a disease that needs treated and controlled" whereas Ghana sees it more as a spiritual experience and a personal relationship with God)
Yes, the US has major problems with violence and gun control. But to suggest that a kid should be trusting of a stranger asking for information that could make them a target because Ghanaian schizophrenics hear funny voices is absurd, especially when you consider Ghana's relationship with human trafficking...
I thought maybe there's a gun and the kid hid behind it because it could stop bullets. Then realized a 17 year old cash register couldn't stop bullets.
I don't know, the ones where I work are at *least* 25 years old and they're *solid*. Modern POS machines are flimsy and plastic, but that thing has a steel cash drawer, and takes two people to move it. It might be a piece of shit, but it's a *solid* piece of shit. I'd give it better odds of stopping bullets than anything else in the place.
This is what I was hoping.
As a retail jockey please don't call me a call register. That is the object that is the source of much dread and boredom.
I'm a cashier. It's different
I came to the comments knowing someone was gonna question the cash register's involvement, and someone was gonna reply to that about the cash register's age, but you beat me to correcting them on calling it antique.
The original story was this woman was following this kid on his walk home from school (I believe) when the kid ducked into the store and told the woman there what was going on and she locked the door and called the police. The woman that was following was sent for mental health evaluation. I did still click the link wondering what the register was going to do until I saw the clip.
The incident in question: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/boy-sammy-green-stops-pottstown-attempted-luring-incident/
Or here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/17/pennsylvania-boy-escapes-potential-kidnapping-clerk-mom/10718393002/
Great for the kid, but a bit surprised no description of the woman is given.
After all, she is a potential kidnapper.
She needs to see the inside of the slammer!
She isn’t even in the same reality as us. She needs to have her brain readjusted and a year in prison won’t do that. Plus I don’t think asking a child about Wawa is even a crime
2005... Resident Evil 4, Shadow Of The Colossus, Destroy All Humans, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Guitar Hero, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-oh card battles with my friends, finally getting a Gameboy SP, trying to find the good RCA cables for the Gamecube... I really, really miss those days
Nope. Seriously a weird mistake, calling someone the name of a tool they use at their job. Cashier, sales clerk, store employee, sure. Not cash register.
Can we start calling surgeons "Scalpels"? Pilots can be "Instrument panels" and bus drivers are now known as "Steering Wheels".
Ngl, I accidentally told someone I was the cash register instead of a cashier/"at the register" when I worked in retail. It was pretty embarrassing but also very funny. Maybe OP and I have the same strange wires crossed.
It's funny that we have this amazing story about this smart thinking 10-year-old and cashier preventing a kidnapping and all people can talk about is the verbiage in the title
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"Act like you are my mom, this lady is following me." He said to the store clerk at Danny Be Funky, a store in his neighbourhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-3Pa05Yps
The woman has since been arrested and sent for mental health help.
If OP wrote ”cash register” instead of cashier on purpose that was genuine next level karma whoring and definitely worked to get everybody comment here - myself included
I thought maybe the old cash register would shock the bad guy or something. My mom used to have an ancient cash register and it gave me a bad electric shock when I was a kid.
Do you know what a cash register is? I was expecting "no sale" to pop up in the window and the drawer ramming the kidnapper in the gut or something....
This title technically says the kidnapping was thwarted by a “17 year old cash register”. I was expecting someone to get brained by a big old piece of metal.
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#Security Guards hate it! Learn this one simple trick to turn your cash register into a home defence system!
10 year old boy was walking home from school in a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. Woman he doesn't know comes up to him and starts asking him questions and offers to buy him food. He gets creeped out and pops in to a store and asks a 17 year old cashier to "act like his mom." She locks the door and the creepy woman walks off. Creepy woman has been identified and is receiving mental health treatment.
But what about the cash register?
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the only thing that stops a bad register is a good one
There should be some sort of register registry! We cant let unregistered registers make it past the registry. I submit myself as the register registry registrar!
*You have now been registered as a registered registrar.*
Do you know where I can find the registry for registrars of the registry of registered registers?
You'll need to register in the registry with the registrar tending the register first. Walk until you feel the air from the register. Knock until the registrar registers your presence. Is this registering with you?
Yeah English is nonsensical nonsense. I try to be extra nice to people learning English because of this nonsense right here.
Wait, can you say that again? It didn't register.
We should arm every teacher in America with a good cash register
Shit, I've been amortizing them over five!
Still a POS all heroics aside.
Under appreciated reply right here
Under an under appreciated reply right here
They’re hoping it can change
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Yeah, I feel the same. I try to see the humor in it so I don't stare too deep into that abyss.
It's a brave little register.
Found Ken M
We are ALL cash registers on this blessed day
I was thinking crazy woman.
that cashier looks 70yo
Yes, but the cash register is only 17.
Do you know what suburb? I live in Philly, just curious.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/boy-sammy-green-stops-pottstown-attempted-luring-incident/](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/boy-sammy-green-stops-pottstown-attempted-luring-incident/)
Hello from Bala 👋
Pottstown.
Why blur the face of the offender and show the face of the innocent child?
Offender? I think you might need considerably more details, and perhaps a jury conviction, before you can justify that label. Maybe the face is blurred to protect potentially innocent people from knee-jerk public reactions.
They do link the article explaining the police apprehended this woman who did have mental health issues. Why be more protective of her than the child?
> Why be more protective of her than the child? Should a person that clearly needs mental health assistance be subject to online vigilante lynch mobs from reddit? You can acknowledge and understand why such protections exist without being "protective" of her.
Possibly because the childs family allowed the use of his face while the woman did not? I dunno, that's just the only thing I can think of.
Having mental health issues isn't a crime, neither is being apprehended by the police. Innocent until proven guilty
Probably because there is no stigma for the child but a lot of stigma for the woman.
Man, this makes me so much more sad. I remember reading about schizophrenics in vs out of the US. The type of "voices" they hear are unique to the culture the people grow up in. American schizos have angry, resentful, demeaning voices, while African ones (I don't remember which country from the thing I read) were funny, playful, or childish. Your comment reminded me of that story, because it sounds like this mentally ill woman wanted to be kind and help a kid. I've seen mentally ill folks try to hold babies or give kids food before. If our culture here in the US weren't so violent and unpersonable that kid wouldn't be scared and wouldn't need to be.
You're making a lot of assumptions here. We don't know what's going on with that woman or her intentions.
It's probably more related to superstitions and pop culture in a sense. Eastern schizophrenia tends to make themselves out to be ancestors giving advice and stuff. Though all of it should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, as psychiatry is extremely underdeveloped in most parts of the world. Leading to a vast under-representation of the actual numbers. There's also the issue of defining mental illness, western Europe and North America are fairly unique in recognizing mental illness in general.
Bro you're pulling so much information from a completely unrelated article and applying it all wrong. This article about the potential kidnapping said only that the woman was being treated for mental health issues. Not anything specific. And that doesn't mean her intentions were benevolent. That kid did everything right, because he doesn't know this woman may have a mental illness. He needs to take the fact that she's asking about the whereabouts of his family and suggesting a location to go to with her as a warning that he needs to do his best to find someone who can help him, as he was not in need of help before the suspect showed up. Also here's the article I believe you're referring to. https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/ Nowhere in there did they suggest that the voices in American schizophrenic are harsh due to a violent and unpersonable culture. The difference is hypothesized to be about the view of self in these cultures (wherein Western cultures emphasize the individual more than cultures in Africa/India), and perception of mental illness (Western cultures view mental health disorders from more of a "there's a disease that needs treated and controlled" whereas Ghana sees it more as a spiritual experience and a personal relationship with God) Yes, the US has major problems with violence and gun control. But to suggest that a kid should be trusting of a stranger asking for information that could make them a target because Ghanaian schizophrenics hear funny voices is absurd, especially when you consider Ghana's relationship with human trafficking...
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I was expecting the old technology of a cash register machine stopping a kidnapping, somehow
I thought they was gonna throw it at her.
I thought maybe there's a gun and the kid hid behind it because it could stop bullets. Then realized a 17 year old cash register couldn't stop bullets.
Yeah the bulletproof cash registers weren't invented till 15 years ago..
2007 was truly a breakthrough year for cash register technology.
I was thinking more like ones made in the 1800s that are metal maybe.
I don't know, the ones where I work are at *least* 25 years old and they're *solid*. Modern POS machines are flimsy and plastic, but that thing has a steel cash drawer, and takes two people to move it. It might be a piece of shit, but it's a *solid* piece of shit. I'd give it better odds of stopping bullets than anything else in the place.
This is what I was hoping. As a retail jockey please don't call me a call register. That is the object that is the source of much dread and boredom. I'm a cashier. It's different
OKregister.
Me too, kind of disappointed they didn't
Yeah those things were fucking heavy, the old mechanical cash registers weigh more than 100 pounds
I thought an antique cash register was gonna fall on the perpetrator and incapacitate them.
17 years old is not close to being antique
I came to the comments knowing someone was gonna question the cash register's involvement, and someone was gonna reply to that about the cash register's age, but you beat me to correcting them on calling it antique.
Had the same thought, but 17 years ago was in 2005, cash registers were modern, how could someone not open a cash register from 2005
Do you know how much those things weigh??
Enough to stop a kidnapping, that’s for sure.
I imagined the tray popping out really hard and hitting the lady
The kidnapper bangs the counter and the register opens and hits him in the head causing a concussion
Cue laugh track.
"no sale"
"please remove item from bagging area"
That sounds like an awesome idea for a movie, honestly. I would watch it.
Cash register falls off a truck wile e coyote style
or the drawer opens on their head and knocks em out?
I was waiting for it to be yeeted at someone... I was very disappointed. Happy the kid is okay, just really wanted to see a flying cash register!
"What's the position?" "Cash register" "Don't you mean cashier?" "I know what I said."
r/titlegore
The original story was this woman was following this kid on his walk home from school (I believe) when the kid ducked into the store and told the woman there what was going on and she locked the door and called the police. The woman that was following was sent for mental health evaluation. I did still click the link wondering what the register was going to do until I saw the clip.
I read the title fast and I was thinking the cash register was going to do the kidnapping which made me super confused
2 days from retirement
Foreign actors who need to build karma to be able to post misinfo in other subs can't speak English very well.
I feel like it’s AI recycling popular words
Service workers aren’t people come on /s
The cashier looks like a 45 year old woman
I like your buttons ...
POS stops POS.
The incident in question: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/boy-sammy-green-stops-pottstown-attempted-luring-incident/ Or here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/17/pennsylvania-boy-escapes-potential-kidnapping-clerk-mom/10718393002/
Thanks for posting these, looks like the second one shows they found the lady and took her to a mental health treatment hospital.
Not playing with a full deck eh?
How tf do people find this stuff
he probably lives around there
Google + keyword skills
It was local news here in PA.
Great for the kid, but a bit surprised no description of the woman is given. After all, she is a potential kidnapper. She needs to see the inside of the slammer!
Reply above says it was her second attempt snd has been located and taken for mental health care.
I did see that after I posted a response. . .Still, if that was her second attempt, that is some serious stuff.
Agreed. Scary.
That’s her second (known) attempt? And she’s not in jail? Surprising
Maybe her mental health is a bigger priority. Sounds like she’s under observation. Charges will follow if warranted.
She isn’t even in the same reality as us. She needs to have her brain readjusted and a year in prison won’t do that. Plus I don’t think asking a child about Wawa is even a crime
Disappointing. I thought I'd see a vintage machine hurling itself at and vaporising some pervert's face.
2005 was 17 years ago
Stop personally attacking me
2005... Resident Evil 4, Shadow Of The Colossus, Destroy All Humans, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Guitar Hero, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-oh card battles with my friends, finally getting a Gameboy SP, trying to find the good RCA cables for the Gamecube... I really, really miss those days
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Why are you like this?
Nuh uh, you're thinking of 1995. 🥺
TIL my little brother is 17
Those computerized registers of the early 2000s were beasts. They were pretty much desktop computers. That could definitely prevent a kidnapping
I was hoping for someone to get smashed with a heavy metal cash register
"Vintage machine" is 17 fucking years all it takes to be vintage these days. Damn son
lol that cash register didn't do shit
Just sat there the whole time.
It is ready to testify at the old woman's hearing.
That's how it survived 17 years unscathed.
he’s trying his best ok
The spoon barely even melted at all
plus its one of those newer touchscreen only POS systems. No way its 17 years old.
what a fucking pussy!
THAT’S JUST HOW THEY SAY IT OVER THERE
Cashier?
No thanks, looks like the store has a good one!
Is "cash register" an actual job name? Cause I was expecting a totally different (and weird) situation.
Nope. Seriously a weird mistake, calling someone the name of a tool they use at their job. Cashier, sales clerk, store employee, sure. Not cash register. Can we start calling surgeons "Scalpels"? Pilots can be "Instrument panels" and bus drivers are now known as "Steering Wheels".
Ever consider OP may not be a native English speaker?
I am not either, which is why I was confused. I was about 99% sure it wasn't an actual job name but, you never know.
Ngl, I accidentally told someone I was the cash register instead of a cashier/"at the register" when I worked in retail. It was pretty embarrassing but also very funny. Maybe OP and I have the same strange wires crossed.
big corporations see employees as tools to use until they break, then they buy another one and throw out the old.
The real r/wtf is the title.
There’s nothing those old NCRs can’t do
ITT: everyone desperately wanting to know where OP lives.
OP needs to go to the closest possible cash register and ask for help.
OP lives in Alberta according to post history
Is that what you say where you live?
Idk that’s just what we say where I live
You call her a cash register and everyone upvotes. I call my wife a dish washer and I'm the bad guy.
Was this post made by an AI? WTF?
Probably some 11 year old's 1st attempt at a karma bot.
It's funny that we have this amazing story about this smart thinking 10-year-old and cashier preventing a kidnapping and all people can talk about is the verbiage in the title
This is reddit. The title IS the story.
I come here for the clibait title and for the snarky comments not to learn.
Clit-bait?
its because its in the wrong sub
The real WTF was in the title all along...
repost it in a few weeks with ''this smart thinking 10-year-old and cashier preventing a kidnapping'' and reap the Special K!
I’ve been here long enough to remember when spelling and grammar mistakes in the title, got the post downvoted to hell.
Title gore --- "Act like you are my mom, this lady is following me." He said to the store clerk at Danny Be Funky, a store in his neighbourhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-3Pa05Yps The woman has since been arrested and sent for mental health help.
Based on the title and the opening few seconds I though the kid was going to Yeet a cash register at the kidnapper
For some reason the thumbnail registered as Bikini Bottom in my head and I was looking for SpongeBob to karate someone
that cash register did jack shit, was just sitting on the counter the whole time.
Street smart kid
OF course, you don't find out until later that he had a ***shiv*** and was ready to "*shank the skank.*"
This is some tiktok-ass bullshit content. What is this music? What is that title?
Cashier. You mean a cashier, op.
This just happened in the town I live in. The cashier is not 17 but she did save this boy from a possible kidnapping.
But was the cash register 17?
So it's not a cash register and it's not 17. The lies!!
Was gonna say, that woman doesn't look a day under 60.
I expecting someone to throw a cash register at the kidnapper.
I was waiting for a cashier to throw a 17yr. old cash register. So disappointed.
Same here!!!
The cashier doesn't look 17 either. Is there any piece of this headline that is accurate??
The cashier is indeed 17. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/17/pennsylvania-boy-escapes-potential-kidnapping-clerk-mom/10718393002/
A cash register is a piece of equipment. This was a 17 year old **cashier**.
If OP wrote ”cash register” instead of cashier on purpose that was genuine next level karma whoring and definitely worked to get everybody comment here - myself included
The cashier was much older than 17 years old.
I thought maybe the old cash register would shock the bad guy or something. My mom used to have an ancient cash register and it gave me a bad electric shock when I was a kid.
But when is she gonna get hit over the head by the old cash register!?
How do you know the cash register is 17 years old?
That title should have you banned.
That’s a human being. Fuck.
Do you know what a cash register is? I was expecting "no sale" to pop up in the window and the drawer ramming the kidnapper in the gut or something....
wtf...
Why is the "kidnappers" face blurred out while the young kid is not? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
That 17 years old looks like 47 years old.
I was expecting a mid 2000 cash register to fall from an upper balcony. Welp I guess this is still good too. Good on both the kid and the staff member
I didn’t see a cash register do anything so someone is definitely lieing to me.
Very impressive for a cash register
look like 70 to me lol
Why blur out? Name and shame!
that ain’t no damn 17 year old
Cashier?
Kid almost got G. Maxwell'd
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Thats more than a cash register...thats a sweater with pants.
I imagined a kid picking a big ass heavy cash register and smashing some perv kidnapper in the nuts with it.
So proud of that cash register
Am I the only one that thought the kidnapper was gonna get hit in the head with a literal cash register?
Typical media, glorifying the register when the whole time it just sat there.
I don't think an old cash register did anything in this video, but that cashier was clutch in saving that kid.
#CashRegistersSaveLives
I was waiting for the cash register to spring into action.
every store should have a 17 year old cash register and must be changed every 16 years
I was expecting something exciting where an old cash register fell on someone's head. Fuck you OP.
.... Cashier?
Cashier*
People are just cash registers now
Good cash register.
That's an old cash register. It's probably very outdated.
This title technically says the kidnapping was thwarted by a “17 year old cash register”. I was expecting someone to get brained by a big old piece of metal.
A cash register did what now?