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Gas Station Hires K-9 Units To Stop Shoplifting

You’ve seen K-9s at the airport, but now a gas station chain has hired dogs to make sure customers are safe at the pump.

Three Sheetz gas station locations in Greensboro, North Carolina, now have K-9 units — a move some say they aren’t surprised by.

“The fact that we’ve gotten to this point is a little concerning. Like the world has gone insane,” Amanda Williams told Nexstar’s WGHP.

According to Sheetz Supervisor Bill Macy, the locations in Greensboro will be the first in the state to have K-9 units provided by Virginia-based company American K-9 Interdiction.

Those locations — Wendover Avenue, West Market Street and Spring Garden Street — are where longtime Greensboro native Michael Rogers says K-9s are needed.

“It’s good. Folks don’t know how to act in public. If they can’t follow the rules, let them get bit,” Rogers said.

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