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- From: etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric))
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.185631.16974@mobil.com>
- Sender: news@mobil.com
- Organization: Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Center(MEPTEC), Dallas.
- References: <1jlsp6INNhc@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1_k3+rp@rpi.edu> <1993Jan22.193035.11391@craycos.com> <1993Jan24.200538.7999@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:56:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.200538.7999@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- My company ID card sets off the scanners when I walk into stores. I've always
- thought it was pretty funny: How can I be stealing something walking INTO the
- store??
-
- Or maybe the scanners are checking for guns, bombs, etc.?? :-)
-
- -Eric
-