This Vape Store Robbery Footage Is 2019’s Best Comedy Film
Credit to Author: Mack Lamoureux| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:59:07 +0000
This 2018 security camera footage of two bumbling fools attempting to rob a vape shop did it again with the best comedy film of 2019.
The setting of our film is Flamingo Vape Shop in Winnipeg early on the morning of March 11. Cam Rochon, the owner of the vape shop, said that the thieves hit the store when it was empty at one in the morning and got away with a laptop, an iPad, a safe, the cash register, and some vape stuff. However, when he saw how fucking terrible the thieves were at looting the place he decided to put the video on YouTube with his own narration making fun of them.
Rochon told a local radio station that those who work at the store “thought we’d have some fun with it, make some jokes about them, because if you saw the footage, you can’t stop laughing.” The video has gone mildly viral, being seen 80,000 times since it’s upload. He describes their perps as a 5’10” to 6′ tall, 230-pound man dressed in a yellow reflective jacket, and sweatpants; and 5’6″ to 5’8″ tall, 300-pound woman dressed in a black jacket and ugg boots. They’re offering a $2,000 award for anyone who can track down the two thieves.
Now, what is an acclaimed film without some overanalysis, right? So, as has been the custom around here for a little bit and cause I like you, my dear reader, I’m going to break this footage down for you.
To start, I would just like to highlight the Ugg boots and a reflective jacket to give you an idea of who we’re working with. Quick bit of advice for my aspiring criminals out there: maybe, when you try to pull off some escapades, don’t wear clothing intended to attract attention.
Now, this movie starts like any good robbery, with a little bit of breaking and entering. The couple smashes the glass on the door and reach through the hole in the door to unlock it. Once inside, the couple spread out and get the light on. That’s when the fun begins.
One of our first signs of the sheer bumbling prowess these two exude comes after the man goes behind the counter in his search for loot. He has a hard time finding something of value, but that’s almost understandable—ask yourself this question, “If I were to rob a vape store, would I know where to get the valuable loot?” Because if you answered yes to that question, and don’t work at a vape store, maybe take a long hard look at yourself and your vape-life.
Anyhow, I digress. After this man understandably can’t figure out where the valuable shit is in the store he gives the testing pods a little push. Nothing major, just like a passive aggressive little push—you can almost here the meek ‘heh’ he assuredly let out when he pushed it. It’s subtle joke but looks wonderful on security cam footage.
After showing those testing pods whose boss, buddy gets behind the clerk desk to get his hands on the store’s sweet, sweet laptop. However, our dude here does not seem to know how, uh, chargers work and a fight ensues. This scrap with the power cord causes our dude to knock pretty much everything onto the ground.
But, hey, at the end of the day he got that laptop.
Now, in a nice throwback to earlier in the film, the testing pods our boy gave his tiny lil’ push to are back. This time they’re being eyed up by the woman—who finally makes her introduction. So, to start, instead of putting the sledgehammer down on the ground he for some reason tucks it under her arm. Then, with sledgehammer safely in her armpit, she grabs the whole shabang, stand and all, and immediately thinks, as we all have once several times in our life, what the fuck am I doing?
For whatever reason—it’s too heavy, she has nowhere to put it, she definitely can’t continue robbing the place while carrying that bulk, take your pick—she carries the stand a few feet before just bailing on it. So, after lifting it up, dumping a bunch of shit on the ground, she just puts it back on the counter a few feet from where she found it. Then, defeated, she slowly walks over to the glass display case and smacks it a couple times, breaking it.
Our duo obviously didn’t bring like a duffle bag or even like a pillowcase in which to put their loot so they have to get creative. The woman has an epiphany though and grabs a garbage can in the corner—it’ll do in a pinch I suppose. She starts filling up the can as her partner in crime stumbles up to the glass display case on the counter.
The man, who must have forgotten what glass was, uses his screwdriver to try and pry this glass box open as you would with some sort of wood or plastic crate. It almost works, as the back falls off, but then the entire thing smashes and the valuables he wants to jack all fall to the ground among many shards of glass. Nice work, bud!
Now, dear readers, I would like to introduce you to the weirdest sledgehammer swing in the known universe. Behold its majesty!
Now while the man, yes, did steal the scene early in the film with his bumbling glory, here the woman steals the fucking show begining, yes, with this weird, insanely awkward backhanded sledgehammer swing and honestly makes me question if they have ever held a hammer before setting out on this robbery.
She hits it in such a low impact way that the glass doesn’t shatter but just kinda dislodges from its frame. While they’re walking away the glass falls ever so perfectly and clunks the woman on the top of her head. This assault seems to draw her attention back to the display case and she starts stealing stuff out of the container.
Off screen, earlier in the robbery, the woman went off camera and dumped the interior of the can off. The reason I’m telling you this, my dear reader, is because the woman now tried to fill her geery-rigged loot bag with vapes but forgets the interior is gone. So, simply put, everything she puts in there just falls out the bottom.
It’s like a fucking Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The whole episode ends with the woman putting her leaky trashcan down to load up her arms with as much shit as she can carry. She hastily grabs her sledge hammer, knocks her trash can over and makes a move for a door escaping the scene with a moment that, after considering long and hard for the past 20 minutes, I can definitively cal “skedaddling.” Which brings us to end of this beautiful short film.
Don’t cry because it’s over, be happy because it happened. Take solace in what Rochan told the local radio station when he said it’s “pretty hard to be depressed about this, just because we’re too busy laughing about it.”
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