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Pay us or we’ll call the cops: Stores giving shoplifters choice of punishment - but is it coercion?
National Post ^ | February 27, 2015 | Leon Neyfakh

Posted on 02/28/2015 3:13:00 AM PST by rickmichaels

Imagine you’re browsing at Bloomingdale’s when a security guard taps you on the shoulder and accuses you of shoplifting. He takes you to a private room, sits you down, and runs your name through a database to see if you have any outstanding warrants. Then he tells you that you have two options. The first involves him calling the police, who might arrest you and take you to jail. The second allows you to walk out of the store immediately, no questions asked—right after you sign an admission of guilt and agree to pay $320 to take an online course designed to make you never want to steal again.

Which would you choose?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: shoplifters; shoplifting
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To: kjam22
and remind them that you carry.

I'd be careful with that.

Brandished defined

Federal law defines brandished as, “with reference to a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) means that all or part of the weapon was displayed, or the presence of the weapon was otherwise made known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the weapon was directly visible to that person. Accordingly, although the dangerous weapon does not have to be directly visible, the weapon must be present.” (18 USCS Appx § 1B1.1)

41 posted on 02/28/2015 7:58:22 AM PST by pa_dweller (If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
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To: pa_dweller

Yeah....


42 posted on 02/28/2015 9:00:57 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: cyclotic

Yep. Absolutely!!! I’m on her side. :)


43 posted on 02/28/2015 3:44:37 PM PST by Shimmer1 ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Shimmer1

Well, I guess you’re both welcome to be wrong then. At the moment I purchase the item, I become the legal owner and am under no compunction to rove that I own it. It’s up to them to prove my guilt.


44 posted on 02/28/2015 7:05:20 PM PST by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: cyclotic

if you pay for the item I guess its not stealing


45 posted on 02/28/2015 7:10:53 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Yep. I get offended when I have to prove stuff. It hurts my feelings and we all know how important hurt feelings are


46 posted on 02/28/2015 7:13:42 PM PST by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: Tupelo

Wal-Mart (and other places) asks random people for the receipt, this is why people are stationed at the door.


47 posted on 02/28/2015 7:13:56 PM PST by GeronL
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To: cyclotic
No, wait, wait. I just reread what you and I both wrote. Chemobrain strikes again!!!
It's you I agree with, why did I write that I agreed with her????? sighing. who knows. I just had a "moment" It happens wayyyyyyyy too often. Lately, I usually say about the right thing, but sometimes I have to go back and correct the wording, it's not always clear and concise, but this time I just wrote it all wrong.
48 posted on 03/01/2015 4:45:21 AM PST by Shimmer1 ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: GeronL

You GUESS it’s not stealing??? (grin)


49 posted on 03/01/2015 4:46:16 AM PST by Shimmer1 ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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