NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/misc/consumer/22583

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From: [e-mail] (Troung Nguyen)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
Date: 26 Jan 1993 20:07:49 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Eric Jung) writes:
|> Ah, one of my favorite subjects:  shoplifting!
|>
|>
|> In NJ, we most certainly had the right to use reasonable force to detain
|> a suspected shoplifter.  I was charged with assault 3 times, but never
|> successfully.  On the other hand, each time physical force escalated to
|> a scuffle, I successfully pressed charges for assault in addition to
|> shoplifting.  Bear in mind that these were mostly professional shop-
|> lifters stealing as much as $8000 at a clip.
|>
   About ten years ago, my uncle and I shopped at a Safeway store in
Fortworth Texas.  My uncle bought a case of baby milk and paid for it.
Since the case was already in a carton box, the cashier didn't put
it in a bag.  When  he left the store, two men from the store followed
and grab his arms. Another man grab his chest and punch his stomach
and called his "thief" without giving my uncle a chance to explain.
While it was happening, the cashier rushed out of the store and
tried to stop men.  To make it short, the cashier simply forgot to mark
the milk box as 'paid' with color tape!! The cashier and the men
apologized. but needless to say, my uncle never went back to the store.

Truong Nguyen