Wtaf, there was someone walking around Sainsbury’s smoking a joint!

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This is in a very naice area!! Literally this fella doing his shopping smoking a bloody joint, stinking the store out!! Skeleton staff.

i really wanted to say something but had the feeling he’d tell me to fuck off.

Does this happen in other areas?! Or this a first (am I being naive here?!).

I’ve seen plenty of grab and run shop lifters who literally take the train in - shop lift- then run back on to a train - it’s very close!

I've seen, or rather smelled, a few in supermarkets but none smoking.
I live in a tiny town in the NE and it seems to have grown substantially.....They stink so bad makes me wonder why they need sniffer dogs.

Its legal where I live. The stench is gross. It clings to the clothing of smokers even when they're not smoking.

But I have never seen anyone in a supermarket actually smoking anything. I have a feeling they'd be bounced out pdq.

I've seen kids riding scooters and bikes around supermarkets. Not sure what you have to do to get thrown out of the police a supermarket ? (Bit of satire there, my names Ben Elton, goodnight).

I was in court (work, not pleasure), case being called, judge on the bench, when a man sitting in the public gallery decided then would be a real good time to have a vape.

OP is jumping the shark a bit with the 'ooooh, what if he had a weapon?' catastrophising.

@ButchyrestingfaceI don’t think it’s catastrophising to consider the possibility of a weapon in a situation like that. If someone feels bold enough to smoke a joint inside a supermarket, completely ignoring social norms and the law, it’s not unreasonable to wonder what else they might be capable of including reacting aggressively if challenged.

I wasn’t assuming he had a weapon but the possibility is there? I was recognising that open, antisocial behaviour like this often goes hand in hand with a disregard for consequences. We don’t live in a vacuum, these things are connected.

Also seen kids on scooters in this supermarket and running up and down the travelator!!

Eventually there will be a nasty (maybe fatal) accident and the supermarkets will crack down after being sued for millions.

I work in a supermarket. No smoking in the shop - nobody has tried it yet apart from one likely lad who'd already been banned several times at the age of 13 and just didn't care. But we get a LOT of customers who come in reeking of weed and the smell follows them around the shop. We have to lock the doors open when they've gone to get rid of the smell. I've nothing against people smoking it, or smoking in general, as long as it doesn't affect others, and this smell is so powerful that people comment.

Like all smokers, I don't think they can smell it on themselves, and happily assume that we don't know what they've been doing for the last half hour or so. But many of them are driving, and that worries me.

Our Sainsburys has a good security guard who keeps it in check. But I went to Morrisons and there were kids using electric scooters around the store. Really nice area too, that can't be normal? No security guard at that Morrisons.

I used to work in a shop around 25 years ago when the lightweight scooters were becoming trendy.
Kids were always whizzing around on them in the shop.
The was a regular customer who always came in with a group of kids on those scooters.
Once they were whizzing around and I said to her "could you tell your kids not to scoot in the shop". She replied they weren't her kids. I apologised because they came in with her so I thought they were hers. She laughed (a Mumsnet tinkly one if I remember correctly) and said they were with her but she was just looking after them - they weren't actually her children.
So despite taking the responsibility to be their babysitter she wasn't going to tell them off.
So I closed down my till in the middle of her transaction, marched up to the children and told them they were NOT to scoot in the shop because it's dangerous and they either need to leave the scooters outside or just push them.
What did they do? They mumbled "sorry Miss" and stopped scooting around.
That woman is probably in her 60s now. I bet she moans about scooters in shops these days 😂😂😂

I think this is very true, I smelled weed strongly on a lady in Boots yesterday, clearly I’m spending too much time in shops!!

I live in a scummy area and it doesn't even happen here.

We just need another 54 years of the War on Drugs - keep the faith !

The point the OP is making is that it was inside....

TBH, I honestly would not know if it is was a spliff or a cigarette. But it’s definitely a health hazard to everyone around. It’s a pathetic performative act - someone with an adolescent mind wanting kudos for being risky.🙄

@BestBeforeddmmyyagree with your analysis. You can smell the weed it’s very strong, plus it was clear looking at it it was a spliff too.

It fucking stinks, and appears to be everywhere at the moment.

Oh dear. Maybe he didn't usually smoke anything, and this was his first experience? He must have been high as a kite to light up in sainsburys! 😆

Not very nice for others. But I'd turn a blind eye and hope it was a one off.

During the years I worked in busy city hospitals, I saw some very odd things. Including a lady smoking a crack pipe in bed on the orthopaedics ward. She was in a 4 bed bay with curtains pulled round. The elderly ladies in the other 3 beds, either didn't notice or pretended to be oblivious!

OP is smart. Safety is more important especially with her kids. My friend got glassed in the face for the same, nearly lost an eye, and is still having surgeries two years later.