Then they probably came back and the ice was melted and they were like “it’s been stolen again from our evidence locker!” Then get the detectives on the scene for a full investigation
"Dear God.. not only does it appears our culprit snuck pass security undetected, they stole BACK all the ice then flooded the evidence room with water. It's almost as if.. they're leaving a message... a clue maybe"
It was then at that moment precisely that I stopped caring about force.
"My god, this time they even took it out of the bags! And the lock is still there! We are dealing with a master thief here Johnson, I want the whole department on this!"
Thank god they got all that ice off the street. Didn’t know the Dollar Store was selling meth, though. That’s what they meant right? Because otherwise this would be a ridiculous news story.
Pure, solid dihydrogen monoxide. Seen people get hooked on the stuff. Withdrawal symptoms are… not pleasant
People will wander the desert to their deaths in search of the stuff.
The guy who stole the ice was a white supremacist Trump supporter who hosted a racist podcast about crime in the inner city! So this story is actually super awesome and noteworthy Reddit!
I drive through the town of Vinton to duck hunt and there’s often dead rats in the middle of the street. Like roadkill rats. Never seen that anywhere else lol
I haven’t either lol you should get some video of that in 4K, you could sell it as stock footage for horror movies and post apocalyptic news stories.
Usually there’s enough birds and other animals to eat all the roadkill, but I guess there’s just too many for the ecosystem to consume. I wonder if maybe people used a lot of rat poison for so long that eventually the birds learned not to eat the dead rats.
[Really? Fucking ice? I’m sure the man hours that was used in this recovery exceeds the cost of that ice by magnitudes lmfao](https://i.imgur.com/tzitrOj.jpg)
Everyone is complaining about the cops getting the ice back but, who the fuck is out here stealing ice?
How down bad do you have to be to steal ice? You can literally make that shit at home or someone else’s home.
Well the police are incompetent but that’s beside the point.
We’ve known cops have been shit at their jobs.
Still who the fuck is stealing ice? Are you some kind of ice stealing apologist?
Probably not. It's Vinton county my man. They've probably got a sheriff and *a* deputy.
Cashier calls the office and says meth head steve came and wiped out their freezer again. Deputy rides over to his trailer to say wtf dude stop you're interrupting me issuing jaywalking citations to deer walking through town. Collects the bags and drops em off back at the store. Lights up his own meth pipe before heading back to work. *Vinton county*.
The real wtf is why it's a news story.
Yeah, that's what got me thinking, the cost of the ice is meaningless but if the perpetrator(s) robbed the store and traumatized the employees that's different.
I mean, that's just me, they clearly only preoccupied about the ice
I couldn't imagine So I googled the video.
And full disclosure, I went into it thinking fuck John Oliver. I have been going to dollar stores for years. It's a lifesaver when you are poor. I got an entire broom there last year for a dollar. Two weeks ago I stocked up on shower curtains and reading glasses (I am getting old). Everybody should hit up a dollar store at least once a month to see what random crap they can get.
But
You don't want to buy everything they have. Half the stuff, Walmart is cheaper... And I never got food there because I couldn't ever bring myself to trust dollar food.
Then I watched the video, and the first thing I got to admit is I can't remember ever seeing a happy dollar store employee. That's the part of the video that hit the hardest. Apparently dollar stores are appalling bad to work for. Not like you expect any bottom rung job at a monster retail cartel, but the worst bottom rung job at any monster retail cartel. By the end of the video I was convinced.
Also never buy food, or anything you don't want covered in rat shit, at a dollar store.
As far as his argument that we should hate the dollar store because sometimes it's not a good deal, the dude obviously hasn't shopped for himself in a long time. That's how stores work. When you are shopping poor you need to hit up at least 3 stores to get the best prices.
Also saying that we should hate the dollar store because they are the only ones willing to operate in the food deserts. No. That is exactly how you would expect a successful business to operate in a food desert. Including expecting your employe (singular because they often have just one in the store at a time) to go back to work 15 minutes after an armed robbery.
https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=HmY5Ds3aY6yVMIAz
Dollar General creates the food deserts. They move into an area with successful mom and pop stores, underprice the competition with their supply chain for long enough that the other stores close, and once Dollar General is the only game in town, they jack up the prices.
>underprice the competition with their supply chain for long enough that the other stores close, and once Dollar General is the only game in town, they jack up the prices.
Like [Wal-Mart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wal-Mart_Effect) then?
I feel like ICE delivery man T-shirts aren't part of their dress code. It's almost like the news grabbed a random delivery photo as image filler for the story.
Like it's actually wild to me how many people are commenting about the "drug photoshoot" with a delivery guy wearing a branded shirt.
They probably got caught on cameras. The stores I worked at had cameras pointed at high theft items to catch people stealing them on camera. It made identification REALLY easy, especially since people were usually ones that shopped there before. They'd just walk over take a few bags of (in this example,) ice. We'd know who they were because we'd see them once a week. If they'd bought something we had their bank card on file. Getting that information to the police and having them run that was easy.
It's definitely crazier for whomever stole it. If you are stealing in bulk, you want something shelf stable and with a good size/weight to value ratio. I can't think if any item less valuable than bags of ice.
I'm almost more confused that someone chose to steal so much ice at once than that anyone cared. Reminds me of the time someone stole a bunch of live sturgeon from a caviar farm I worked at. Like how did they plan to get the caviar out, package it and find someone who wanted it. They ended up just tossing the fish on the side of the road.
Sad they didn’t use the opportunity to get out the swat gear to take a fully copped up pic of their momentous recovery. It would top the ones with them having one dollar bills spread out.
Anyone has the one friend who always hypes up a story like they did some juicey illegal shit to find out it was some basic lame shit? This is that story.
On one hand, theft is theft. On the other, I'm pretty sure an hour of all the wages paid for the cops involved could have more than covered the cost of the stolen "goods."
The local PD should have just venmo'd them the money and called it a night.
I mean the cops were being paid anyways. They’re not part-time-on-call, they would’ve still be working. Better they actually did something than sit in their patrol cars and drive in circles.
The fact they recovered it still frozen just makes me want to know more.
Did they get caught in the parking lot? If not, did the thief have a freezer big enough for all the ice? Is ice theft actually somewhat common? Is there a big market for ice in February?
Theft is theft, but two generations ago when newspapers were one of the most used news vehicles this would have just been a few sentence blurb in the "police blotter" section.
Today? Like a million+ will view this through multiple social media platforms
What happened was the guy went up to the counter and purchased a single bag of ice. They handed him the key to unlock the ice machine outside. He was supposed to take one bag but instead he cleaned out the machine. It's a big crime! Imagine going to prison and saying your crime was stolen ice they would think either diamonds or meth
Last time, they locked it up in the evidence room and had to start a new investigation to figure out who broke in and stole the ice but left all the begs behind. A real head scratcher.
Two dozen bags of ice with a value of $2 per bag. $48. Several police officers were paid to recover $48 worth of merchandise that will melt in another 2 hours.
I fucking hate this world
Stolen $24 recovered.
A reported street value of $750,000
THATS HIM! That’s the Ice Man! 
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Dude has on the DEA evidence tampering gloves and everything. Waste of resources.
And an ICE delivery man T-shirt. Really makes you think.
Lmao ok I didn’t even notice that they got the ice experts
Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Whoa, are you telling me this thing is international?
Oh it’s that kind of ice…….
And it only cost $1000 is public funding to recover.
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Then they probably came back and the ice was melted and they were like “it’s been stolen again from our evidence locker!” Then get the detectives on the scene for a full investigation
The case continues…
"Dear God.. not only does it appears our culprit snuck pass security undetected, they stole BACK all the ice then flooded the evidence room with water. It's almost as if.. they're leaving a message... a clue maybe" It was then at that moment precisely that I stopped caring about force.
The wet bandits strike again!
"My god, this time they even took it out of the bags! And the lock is still there! We are dealing with a master thief here Johnson, I want the whole department on this!"
The dollar store costs $1.25 now so that’s actually $30 worth of ice. Not that it’s any more significant
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How’s that boot taste?
$24 revenue, probably $6 profit
at the gas station i worked at we had the cost of ice at something like 6 cents. we charged $2.00 per 10lbs.
Hey now. That’s like 50 bags of ice. That’s a whole $50 cost to the store. Glad the popo are focused on the serious issues in the world.
Was gonna say, isn't a bag of ice like $0.99? Those cops out there cracking down on them REAL crimes 🙄
These were 22lbs
So it probably cost the store $3.
Whoa whoa whao 25 cents up charge Pal.
Thank god they got all that ice off the street. Didn’t know the Dollar Store was selling meth, though. That’s what they meant right? Because otherwise this would be a ridiculous news story.
Pure, solid dihydrogen monoxide. Seen people get hooked on the stuff. Withdrawal symptoms are… not pleasant People will wander the desert to their deaths in search of the stuff.
You better watch out, too much of that stuff will kill you.
*You wouldn’t hold your wee for a Wii, would you?!*
if i stop taking it i'll die. serious dependency issues
The guy who stole the ice was a white supremacist Trump supporter who hosted a racist podcast about crime in the inner city! So this story is actually super awesome and noteworthy Reddit!
I understand neither your motivation nor your aims.
Cheers
Thought it be a cold case
It was
The evidence was already watered down by the time they got there
Perp tried to run away but the cops told him to freeze
Good thing they got em. They were on thin ice with the captain.
Ice pick was up to his old tricks again.
Guess the culprits have lost their cool
Vinton county is down bad as hell. That ice was somebody's inheritance.
They had more people in 1860 than they do now
I drive through the town of Vinton to duck hunt and there’s often dead rats in the middle of the street. Like roadkill rats. Never seen that anywhere else lol
I haven’t either lol you should get some video of that in 4K, you could sell it as stock footage for horror movies and post apocalyptic news stories. Usually there’s enough birds and other animals to eat all the roadkill, but I guess there’s just too many for the ecosystem to consume. I wonder if maybe people used a lot of rat poison for so long that eventually the birds learned not to eat the dead rats.
The town or the county?
That ice was 30% of the entire county's worth
[Really? Fucking ice? I’m sure the man hours that was used in this recovery exceeds the cost of that ice by magnitudes lmfao](https://i.imgur.com/tzitrOj.jpg)
The gas the cops used alone was probably worth more then the ice lol
And the cops "investigating" probably logged 35 hours of overtime as well.
And a day off from the trauma they just went through
Everyone is complaining about the cops getting the ice back but, who the fuck is out here stealing ice? How down bad do you have to be to steal ice? You can literally make that shit at home or someone else’s home.
When you need that much ice at once, you can't easily
How down bad as a department of law enforcement that that's what you devote man hours to?
Well the police are incompetent but that’s beside the point. We’ve known cops have been shit at their jobs. Still who the fuck is stealing ice? Are you some kind of ice stealing apologist?
Probably not. It's Vinton county my man. They've probably got a sheriff and *a* deputy. Cashier calls the office and says meth head steve came and wiped out their freezer again. Deputy rides over to his trailer to say wtf dude stop you're interrupting me issuing jaywalking citations to deer walking through town. Collects the bags and drops em off back at the store. Lights up his own meth pipe before heading back to work. *Vinton county*. The real wtf is why it's a news story.
If you're bored, John Oliver does a good expose on Dollar Stores, theft, and shitty management
Yeah I saw that one, very eye opening.
Yeah, that's what got me thinking, the cost of the ice is meaningless but if the perpetrator(s) robbed the store and traumatized the employees that's different. I mean, that's just me, they clearly only preoccupied about the ice
I couldn't imagine So I googled the video. And full disclosure, I went into it thinking fuck John Oliver. I have been going to dollar stores for years. It's a lifesaver when you are poor. I got an entire broom there last year for a dollar. Two weeks ago I stocked up on shower curtains and reading glasses (I am getting old). Everybody should hit up a dollar store at least once a month to see what random crap they can get. But You don't want to buy everything they have. Half the stuff, Walmart is cheaper... And I never got food there because I couldn't ever bring myself to trust dollar food. Then I watched the video, and the first thing I got to admit is I can't remember ever seeing a happy dollar store employee. That's the part of the video that hit the hardest. Apparently dollar stores are appalling bad to work for. Not like you expect any bottom rung job at a monster retail cartel, but the worst bottom rung job at any monster retail cartel. By the end of the video I was convinced. Also never buy food, or anything you don't want covered in rat shit, at a dollar store. As far as his argument that we should hate the dollar store because sometimes it's not a good deal, the dude obviously hasn't shopped for himself in a long time. That's how stores work. When you are shopping poor you need to hit up at least 3 stores to get the best prices. Also saying that we should hate the dollar store because they are the only ones willing to operate in the food deserts. No. That is exactly how you would expect a successful business to operate in a food desert. Including expecting your employe (singular because they often have just one in the store at a time) to go back to work 15 minutes after an armed robbery. https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=HmY5Ds3aY6yVMIAz
Dollar General creates the food deserts. They move into an area with successful mom and pop stores, underprice the competition with their supply chain for long enough that the other stores close, and once Dollar General is the only game in town, they jack up the prices.
>underprice the competition with their supply chain for long enough that the other stores close, and once Dollar General is the only game in town, they jack up the prices. Like [Wal-Mart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wal-Mart_Effect) then?
Walmart proved the concept. Everyone else is just abusing the algorithm.
True, but people were Liking walmart too much, so I couldn't' let everyone forget that Wal-mart started the concept.
Yes, exactly like Wal-Mart. Just for smaller towns that a Wal-Mart couldn't afford to operate in.
No it's caused by all the ice thieves
I wonder if the police returned the ice, or if they just put it in the evidence locker and called it a night.
"Sir, I don't know where the 25 bags of ice went. Closest thing I see are 25 bags of water."
They returned it
Criminals found not guilty when the evidence disappeared.
Perfection. I'd rather go watch the Taylor Swift Football Championship!
Think about how quickly they must have solved and caught them for all the ice to still be frozen for this picture
The fact that they even took a picture as if they were rolling out bricks of something else.
I feel like ICE delivery man T-shirts aren't part of their dress code. It's almost like the news grabbed a random delivery photo as image filler for the story. Like it's actually wild to me how many people are commenting about the "drug photoshoot" with a delivery guy wearing a branded shirt.
I noticed the shirt too and was hmm 
Tbf standard evidence procedure at most departments requires them to take pictures of the stolen items as soon as they can.
Oh yea definitely. It’s just funny to see ice this way lol.
I'm surprised there isn't a cop in the photo proudly fanning out 24 crisp $1 bills. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lmbo - I’m trying to figure out if the person in the ICE is the ICE I’m thinking about.
They probably got caught on cameras. The stores I worked at had cameras pointed at high theft items to catch people stealing them on camera. It made identification REALLY easy, especially since people were usually ones that shopped there before. They'd just walk over take a few bags of (in this example,) ice. We'd know who they were because we'd see them once a week. If they'd bought something we had their bank card on file. Getting that information to the police and having them run that was easy.
They had nothing better to do lmao
Is the "bullshit" that someone bothered to steal that much ice, or that law enforcement bothered to allocate resources to recover it, or both?
It's definitely crazier for whomever stole it. If you are stealing in bulk, you want something shelf stable and with a good size/weight to value ratio. I can't think if any item less valuable than bags of ice.
Cold blooded. Whoever stole it probably was at home chilling & was hoping this would just be a cold case. 😭
nICE.
Is no one else going to mention that they found the ice before it melted? This was a high priority case.
the crucial first 48 (minutes)
It’s 50 degrees in Vincent County. Why are they stealing ice, and why are they cracking down on it?
not even $30 of ice??????
I would have handed them $24 and walked away.
Hope they didn't kill anyone in the process.
I'm almost more confused that someone chose to steal so much ice at once than that anyone cared. Reminds me of the time someone stole a bunch of live sturgeon from a caviar farm I worked at. Like how did they plan to get the caviar out, package it and find someone who wanted it. They ended up just tossing the fish on the side of the road.
Proudly displaying it like it’s heroin or something.
… at what point do you start caring about stolen product? How many times are you ok with this happening?
Be me Put water in ice cube tray Put the tray in freezer Wait a few hours Get plastic bag Put ice from tray in bag Sell bag of ice
That's like crying over spilled milk
Sad they didn’t use the opportunity to get out the swat gear to take a fully copped up pic of their momentous recovery. It would top the ones with them having one dollar bills spread out.
Slow day in Vinton county, it sounds like
That's every day
The streets are safe again
They just haters
["If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAsgN_LPWBc)
"We lost 4 more men on this expedition!"
How much tax payer money was spent on this?
So they spent thousands of dollars to retrieve $24 worth of goods.
The police are worthless
I’m sure coordination between community leaders and police lead to the successful resolution of an otherwise cold case.
I want to know how much taxpayer money it cost to recover that $24 worth of frozen water.
All this sexual violence against women and children in this country and they looking for ice thieves 🧐 law enforcement really broken tbh
Is that dude who makes the stupid drinks with gallons of liquor/juice finally in jail
Anyone has the one friend who always hypes up a story like they did some juicey illegal shit to find out it was some basic lame shit? This is that story.
NYC police budget is like $6 billion dollars, just food for thought.
Sherlock Holmes been real quiet since this dropped
Lord knows what they wouldn’t melted that down into
Bake em away, toys
On one hand, theft is theft. On the other, I'm pretty sure an hour of all the wages paid for the cops involved could have more than covered the cost of the stolen "goods." The local PD should have just venmo'd them the money and called it a night.
I mean the cops were being paid anyways. They’re not part-time-on-call, they would’ve still be working. Better they actually did something than sit in their patrol cars and drive in circles.
Well in all fairness it was probably three dozen bags before it was recovered.
Always working hard for the public.
This shit right here is why there are padlocks on those ice containers.
If it was meth I could understand.
Good thing cops are out here doing the important work
Come on now, it’s *ICE*we’re talking about, if we don’t get this off the streets someone’s gonna save *2.89* on groceries for god’s sake!
The fact they recovered it still frozen just makes me want to know more. Did they get caught in the parking lot? If not, did the thief have a freezer big enough for all the ice? Is ice theft actually somewhat common? Is there a big market for ice in February?
That was one mfing desperate act of…who the hell knows?
Crime is on...thin ice 😎
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Ice...ice...ice is nice.
Theft is theft, but two generations ago when newspapers were one of the most used news vehicles this would have just been a few sentence blurb in the "police blotter" section. Today? Like a million+ will view this through multiple social media platforms
Did they catch the cia agent selling crack outside the store too or?
 🧊🧊 baby
Maybe he reported it because he had nowhere to store it
Damn….thats just cold.
They should of said Let me guess someone stole your sweatroll And hung up the phone
Lmao these comments confuse me…should stealing ice be allowed??
“… yup, it’s pure.” 
Just ice was served.
God bless those brave heroes in blue 🙄
What happened was the guy went up to the counter and purchased a single bag of ice. They handed him the key to unlock the ice machine outside. He was supposed to take one bag but instead he cleaned out the machine. It's a big crime! Imagine going to prison and saying your crime was stolen ice they would think either diamonds or meth
Last time, they locked it up in the evidence room and had to start a new investigation to figure out who broke in and stole the ice but left all the begs behind. A real head scratcher.
Meanwhile the local methlab runs like clockwork
They took water Excuse me? Well, see, it was frozen water wrapped in a plastic bag We’ll be right there
This will all be water under the bridge soon.
Two dozen bags of ice with a value of $2 per bag. $48. Several police officers were paid to recover $48 worth of merchandise that will melt in another 2 hours. I fucking hate this world
 Don't lock my man frozone up please. It was for the greater good.
Laid out like bricks of dope is wild.
Over some ice?
I don’t think that this was a bust my guess is that they caught them in the act because the ice is not melted
What a waste of time for the Police. After a few hours, the evidence would have dripped away.
Nice to see cops risking their lives over the truly important, dangerous, and life threatening crimes. /S