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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:04:13 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- My HP95 I carry in my pocket sets these things off every so often.
- My way of dealing with the goon squad is to pretend like I cannot
- hear them. I neither look at nor otherwise acknowledge them.
- They practically EXPLODE! After all, we ARE talking about lowlife cop
- wannabes in most cases who couldn't cut it as real cops. I'm still
- waiting for one of 'em to actually touch me :-)
-
- John
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