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- From: niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr)
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.200538.7999@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
- References: <1jlsp6INNhc@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1_k3+rp@rpi.edu> <1993Jan22.193035.11391@craycos.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:05:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.193035.11391@craycos.com> ewv@craycos.com (Eric Varsanyi) writes:
- >In article <1_k3+rp@rpi.edu> wrf@ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) writes:
- >>restitution. In fact, they might detain me in the office and not allow
- >>me to leave. They then might make me sign an admission that I was a
- >>thief, on the threat of laying a criminal charge.
- >
-
- On another thread, how about those "supposedly" accurate scanners used
- by stores to prevent shoplifting when a person leaves them.
-
- Last October, I took my wife on a shopping spree for her birthday. We
- went to several malls and in one of them the Disney Store (looking for
- a gift for our newborn granddaughter) had a scanner go off as we
- entered.
-
- We were confronted by the store personnel and had to take out all of the
- merchandise in the bags we were carrying from the other stores in the
- mall and produce receipts. After a few minutes, we convinced them we
- were'nt thieves since several people came into the store and without
- shopping bags and the beeper went off.
-
- As far as I'm concerned, I'll never step foot in another Disney Store
- again.
-
- If we were detained and the mall's security section and the local
- police were called, I'd be filing a humoungous lawsuit against the
- Disney Store and the mall itself.
-
- Dave
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