From the New York Daily News,
Brooklyn bodega worker stabbed to death for not selling man ‘loosies’: NYPD.
In this context, “loosies” are individual cigarettes, which, strictly speaking, aren’t supposed to sold separately at retail. The New York Post also covers the story here.
The victim has been identified,
Diego Sandoval-Nava, 33, was working at a deli and mini market on Hegeman Ave. in East New York when a man came into the store around 3 p.m. and caused a disturbance, police said.
The unidentified man later returned and stabbed Sandoval to death. The attacker is still at large.
I’ve been thinking about this post on Twitter (X), by the account FischerKing64, from a couple of days ago,
A man who operates a gas station overnight has a better understanding of what’s going on in the United States than a tech worker.
In the above scenario, which happened in the middle of the afternoon, Mr. Sandoval stands in for the late-night gas station manager, trying to best serve his customers and stay within the confines of the law.
The tech worker designing our brave new future, with cryptocurrency, digital currency, social credit, etc. does not account for Mr. Sandoval’s crazed customer with his dollar bill, looking for a loosie.
In the normal course of things, our tech worker overlord may come within blocks of the Brooklyn deli and mini mart or its San Francisco equivalent, yet those worlds do not overlap at any level.
