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- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
- References: <1993Jan26.172947.29383@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <C1HoCw.FLp@boi.hp.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:32:32 GMT
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- tommy@boi.hp.com (Tom Peterson) writes:
-
- >an older gentleman (50's maybe) was stopped
- >in the parking lot of our HOMEBASE store by 2 store employees.
- >He was accused of shoplifting (and apparently was quilty), it is
- >unclear whether he was beaten or ?, but he died of a coronary in
- >the HOMEBASE parking lot.
-
- [This is probably totally irrelevant, but...]
-
- I read once--possibly in the book _Murder Ink._--that if simple
- exertion sets off a heart attack, then the person most likely
- would have had one anyway within the next day or so. It seems
- to me that a situation like this is probably in the same category.
- --
- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu
- University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975
- Dept. of Mathematics "Your ball goes over them, it sails off the edge into a
- huge cauldren of fire-breathing dragons." "And they call this a par three?"
-