apparently it’s a nationwide thing, loads of stores had them, so i couldn’t have been the only victim

by vulturesdescend

32 comments

  1. Used to work there and occasionally some poor soul would walk up to him to have a chat. 

  3. god i didn’t realise how bad quality the pic was, sorry lmao

  4. As a kid? I’m scared of him NOW! That’s the smile of a sociopath!

  5. They trialled a similar thing in our local co-op a few years ago, and a bunch of kids stole the cardboard cut-out and ran off with it.

  6. I walked into the one on the door of a Poundland once, the door wasn’t working and I thought I walked into a person, began apologising before realising what I did and doubled over laughing

  7. The first ever time I saw this it shit me up, i genuinely thought a police officer was just stood there looking out the glass for a second aha

  8. It still scares the shit out of me when I walk past a homebargains at night.

  9. After I die I want to be taxidermied and put on display in a shop dressed as a police offficer or security.

  10. Every stoner has been freaked out by him at some point.

  11. Fun fact: statistically, these actually reduce the likelihood of shoplifting

  12. they didn’t even bother getting rid of the white cardboard between his legs on the one in my local store, but i still thought it was real. i was a bit thick

  14. I think it sends the wrong message. Policemen who enter Home Bargains are not in fact crushed into a thin sheet. Horribly inaccurate stuff.

  15. Simpler times when a picture of a policeman was a deterrent. Now shops have a camera in the air, body cameras, checkout cameras, receipt scanners, anal probes and still no one cares.

    Perhaps these decoys desensitised people? This could be a study. Along with Sainsbury’s having “Security Station #2” at the door so robbers go “Where’s #1 – I can’t see #1 oh my god where is #1?”

  16. Is he a real copper? Imagine being caught shoplifting in HB and they send the actual guy round to arrest you.

  17. I wonder what the guy in the photo is doing now

  18. My local poundland had one of these right by the exit door and i’d bump into it nearly everytime. Despite knowing it’s a cardboard cutout I would also apologise to it then walk out feeling really embarassed everytime… :l

  19. Scared of the shop in general.

    Maze like shelf placement where you either need to buy something or awkwardly exit through the entry only door or squeeze past those queuing at the till.

    Bonus points for trying to climb over or push through the alarmed closed aisle barriers.

  21. They had one of these at a local pound shop in my town and people kept drawing dicks on it’s head so they had to just get rid of it altogether.

  22. Home bargains didn’t exist when I was a kid so no.

  26. The identity of the Home and Bargain copper is still a mystery. (He was the Home and Bargain copper before he was the Home Bargains copper)

  27. I really want a movable cardboard one to scare my weed-dealing neighbour. Nothing against what he does; he’s a nice guy and a mate but haha

  28. There used to be a giant poster of a policeman by the pedestrian entrance to Avenue Road car park in Bournemouth back when it was operated by APCOA. Thing is, it hadn’t been changed for so long that some of the colours had photodegraded and given him a green, zombified-looking skin tone.

    Alway scared the shit out of little me.

  29. As a kid I met him 4 months ago and that physchopath unnerves me now as an adult

  30. We had G4S security at the retail area our Home Bargains was in. We would have happily swapped them out for this cardboard cut out if given the option.

  31. Trago Mills was my first experience of one of these and eyes posters watching you. Nothing in that sh1thole worth stealing

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