THIEF: YOU’RE A CHICKEN NUGGET
SHOCKING video shows the moments two brazen thieves abuse and assault staff – calling one a “f---ing chicken nugget” – at a Gold Coast supermarket when confronted.
No charges have been laid against the alleged offenders.
Footage, filmed on March 21 but published on social media on Sunday, shows two girls, hoodies bulging with unidentified objects, arguing with staff as they attempted to leave the store.
One girl – wearing a navy Tommy Jeans hoodie, grey tights, red and white slides, a pulled-down black face mask and a half-bleached ponytail – storms up to one young staff member, shirtfronting her before pushing her on the chest with both hands.
“You’re a f---ing chicken nugget,” the offender appears to yell.
An older female staffer intervenes, getting between the attacker and young staffer.
The teen then confronts the older woman, pushing her and hurling foul insults with clenched fists before being dragged away by her accomplice, a girl in her early teens wearing a black and grey Nike hooded jacket and black tights.
“Don’t f---ing touch me s--t,” the girl snarls at the staff member. “Do you think I’m scared of you?” Lawyer Katrina Taylor was pushed by the second girl after she began filming the incident.
Ms Taylor said the girls had been putting goods from the store under their clothes and became enraged when staff asked them to put it back.
“Both their hoodies were absolutely packed full of stuff, it was so obvious,” she said.
“Then they just tried to walk out.” Ms Taylor said the situation escalated from there.
“They just started absolutely screaming at the top of their lungs and swearing – they both had the most disgusting mouths on them,” she said.
“There were multiple staff members that they were pushing and hitting.
“I took out my phone because I thought the police were going to want to see the faces of these girls.”
A police spokeswoman said the offenders had not been found and the investigation was still open.
The spokeswoman said police had attended the store after staff called triple-0 and that no injuries were reported.
A Woolworths spokesman said the safety of team members was top priority.
“We do not accept customer abuse or violence in any circumstance,” he said.
“Our team members do the very best they can to support customers, and deserve to be treated with respect on the job.
“We continue to assist police with their inquiries and have taken steps to ban the customers from returning to the store.”