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Amish horse and buggy stolen from Walmart parking lot while family shopped (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TheWaterGod to c/offbeat

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

They probably left the key in the ignition.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Who steals a horse and buggy and parks it at their motel? I mean it’s likely to not have LoJack but come on now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Police have issued an APB on Arthur Morgan, a known criminal whose gang recently moved into the area.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably in a chop shop by now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

*slaughterhouse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"It must have been stolen. It's not like it up and walked away!"

[–] Rentlar 3 points 1 year ago

Shoulda had the club installed on the reins...

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why were they at Walmart?

Edit: I thought the point of being Amish was to cut the rest of society off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Why does anybody go there? Because they are people who want to buy something there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Amish shop at a lot of stores. You see them everywhere if you're near Amish country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shopping? Why else would you be there?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why would an Amish family be shopping at Walmart? Are they actually Amish or are they simply Mennonites?

Unless they were on that coming of age adventure where they check out the regular world and decide if they wanna stay Amish or not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both Amish and Mennonites shop and use electronics as needed. And it also varies quite a bit from church to church.

It's not that they don't use modern technology in every case. They just value a solid days work of some manual labor and see most of it as shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not even phased by the shopping at a store itself (surely they still buy lumber and hardware and such), more the specific one because I thought they also stayed away from processed foods and stuff. Do they not? And if not: how did that idea get in my head? 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Walmart around me has a ton of fresh food. Things like flour, salt, beans, are typically fair game as well in my experience. Clothing I suspect is another reason to hit up a Walmart.

They try and keep it in the community but they gets harder each year I'm guessing.