‘Get a f****n job you losers’: Angry bystander berates jewellery store robbers
Posted December 3, 2024 6:34 am.
Last Updated December 6, 2024 8:50 am.
Video showing a brazen Richmond Hill jewellery store heist featured an equally brazen bystander who taunted the culprits, calling them “losers” and “lowlifes” while they hammered away at display cases.
The robbery took place on Monday at around 4 p.m. at a Peoples Jewellers store in Hillcrest Mall.
The video begins with one of four masked suspects hovering over a screaming employee as she lays on the ground.
It then pans over to show three other suspects hammering away at the store’s display cases and bagging items.
“Call the police!” a man can be heard yelling repeatedly.
The same man then starts reprimanding the crooks.
“Look at these f****n lowlifes, bro, look at these lowlifes,” he says.
When the felonious foursome starts running out of the store they’ve just ransacked, the bold man chases after them and continues to barrage them with stinging barbs.
“Yeah, let’s run away,” he yells, accompanied by a string of unpublishable profanities.
“Get a f****n job, you losers!”
The unidentified man follows them to their awaiting getaway car, which speeds off, taking note of the licence plate and vehicle make and model.
York Regional Police investigators say they’re looking for five suspects — four who were in the store and a getaway driver who remained in the vehicle, which police say was previously stolen.
“One suspect assaulted an employee, while the three other suspects smashed open jewellery display cases,” a police release states. “The suspects stole a quantity of jewellery and fled to an awaiting Nissan Maxima. The vehicle has since been recovered.”
Police said a jewellery store employee received minor injuries and was assessed by paramedics at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
The smash-and-grab robbery at Hillcrest Mall comes days after a similar crime was committed at Sherway Gardens in Etobicoke, where multiple suspects allegedly entered a jewellery store on Saturday afternoon and began smashing the display cases before making off with an unknown quantity of items.
