Posted on 02/28/2015 3:13:00 AM PST by rickmichaels
I wouldn’t be shoplifting
But it’s a no brainer. Record or no record? Actually if one is provably guilty? You pay for the course.
Might be a good deterant too.
And you think shop lifting is a crime? Seems we DO have an option on what to call the alternative “punishment”.
I’ll take the deal. Of course, you won’t catch me shoplifting since I don’t do it. But this sounds like a good deal to me versus a ride downtown and booking at a police station. For all the lawyers and activist complaining about it, the answer is simple... tell your people to tell the store they’ll take the “call the cops” option.
What is the warrant is for something big, like rape or murder? Are they going to offer a person like that this “deal”?
I think the current regime is criminal. Some poor jerk lifting a bag of underwear at Walmart is a crime.....but he is trumped 8 ways from Sunday by the current criminal activity emanating from the White Hut. And wait till we see the ‘shrinkage’ in our 401Ks.
Ah, no.
Just read the headline, didn't ya...?
Call the cops.
National retail establishments, worried about image and perception, will let you leave with a gift card if you create a large enough “scene”. I have witnessed this. These outfits are focused on employee theft (aka shrinkage) and the public is robbing them blind.
Hmm...I worked at Bloomingdale’s as a kid. They had no security guard. They sent me (a 5’0” tall, 95 pound weakling) to confront shoplifters. Didn’t last long on that job.
Since I do not shoplift, any store floorwalker that detains me for more than thirty seconds is going to be sued for illegal detention. Kidnapping if you will.
Once he/she/it forces you to go somewhere against your will, he damn well better have the goods on you or he is committing a crime. If he is armed, that will add more weight to you case.
If I am not mistaken, in most states, you have to take an item outside the store in order to commit the crime of shoplifting.
I am the guy that did a u turn when asked by some kind of store security at Walmartto see my receipt . I marched over to Customer Service and returned damn near $200.00 in groceries.
The profit margin on catching a shoplifter is surely higher than on making a sale.
How long before security guards are given quotas for making arrests?
It all adds up to yet another good reason for shopping online.
Shop lifting is wealth distribution, fundamentally like a wealth tax.
I don't shoplift, so I am not going to any back room with any two-bit security guard. Bring on the cops, and a huge lawsuit.
Concealing an item is good enough in Washington state.
DK
Good for you for returning the groceries...I won’t shop in a store that treats reg customers as thieves.
“I think the current regime is criminal. Some poor jerk lifting a bag of underwear at Walmart is a crime.....but he is trumped 8 ways from Sunday by the current criminal activity emanating from the White Hut. And wait till we see the ‘shrinkage’ in our 401Ks.”
Both a bum stealing a dime and a corrupt official embezzling millions are as guilty since they have both violated Lord’s Commandments.
In no way the first may look into actions of the latter for an excuse.
Sin remains a sin, if one is ready to commit it for lesser benefits and/or unable to put hands on something bigger it only shows his level and doesn’t make said person less evil.
IMHO.
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