The story behind it...

Mr. Fun

A couple years ago while I was working at the Target in Encinitas I had the closing shift. There was always something going on in that store, never a dull moment. This night we had a small group of shop lifters and our security was on to them. I was the Shortage Captain for the store, and always interested in that side of operations, so of course I got an early heads up.

2 juvenile females, and one LARGE male were working together. One girl with a baby stroller would load up formula under the seat, while the other girl was keeping an eye out. The male was in the mean time stealing cell phones on the otherside of the store. The undercover guy is on him, and just happened to stumble on the formula scheme when one of the guys in the office saw it on camera...

So as the male heads for the door, the two girls join up, our security slides up next to him, ( a big guy on his own) dwarfed by the shoplifter. So the shoplifter starts wrestling to get away, slams our guy into the wall, headlocks, slams on the floor, a good rough and tumble...and the two girls are kicking and screaming to let him go etc...after a minutes struggle the sherriff rolls in and sees us holding down the huge dude, while the girls are wailing away, not a lotta damage just annoying. So the Sheriff flys in a knocks one girl on her ass, HARD! The other one stopped immediately to say the least. So had not to laugh.

So while the three are cuffed at our enterance, I get the duty of watching them while the cops and our team sort out the details. The whole time the dude wont shut up..."You think you are bad? Standing there, Id kick your....blah blah blah>" I just stand there with a little grin, he is going down for a couple hundered bucks... while cuffed he pulls a little sheet of paper out of his pocket and tries to toss it to a girl, I snapped it up. That really set him off, "you think this is funny? AH you're Mr. FUN! Im gonna come back here when Im out and get me a piece of Mr Fun!!"
Of course my best friend just happened to be coming into the overnight shift, and heres the Mr Fun part..and it stuck....


The cops head out to the car and find $500 worth of stolen formula, plus clothes stolen from the store next door, each had stolen goods on them personally, and he had a warrant!!