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Related: About this forumWalmart mistakenly accuse man of shoplifting.Cops roll their eyes when he says he can show the receipt
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Summary. Man and his teen son purchase bags of playground sand from Walmart
Man pays at the cashier, then gets the sand and rolls it out of the store.
Walmart security is watching on the camera and start the video when the man is rolling the sand bags out of the store (looks like he didn't pay because they started video 2 minutes AFTER he paid)
Walmart calls cops and show them the video (starting 2 minutes after man paid).
Cops go to man's house cuff him and son. Man says he can show receipt and cops roll their eyes
man and son spend night in jail.
TV news contacts cops. Cops send detectives to investigate. Both cops and Walmart admit he should not have been arrested.
elleng
(136,387 posts)cstanleytech
(27,074 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(10,284 posts)cstanleytech
(27,074 posts)3Hotdogs
(13,436 posts)for being incompetent.
Otterdaemmerung
(102 posts)We all know that if you're going to try to shoplift something, you don't go with something easily concealable like luxury clothing or jewelry; or something in great demand on the black market like power tools; but something of very little worth, bulky, and heavy, like huge bags of playground sand!
eShirl
(18,812 posts)heh
hlthe2b
(106,483 posts)I know. I know... The question is mainly rhetorical.
Think. Again.
(18,331 posts)...especially to people using the self-checkout for some reason.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,313 posts)I dont get a discount for doing someones job.
In the long run, the store could cut staff and someone could end up losing their job.
And now it seems a person could actually get arrested for using it even if they had a receipt. I hope this mans family wins a big settlement from Walmart and whoever is responsible for the police department.
jimfields33
(19,150 posts)bucolic_frolic
(47,142 posts)Now the cops are in cahoots in the intelligence department
JPPaverage
(577 posts)Saying that "Wal Mart employees are not the brightest bunch" sounds like elitism to me. Maybe that's because I'm not the brightest guy. Or maybe its because most of us know someone that works at Wal Mart. Like my wifes good friend who needed a job. They are mostly good people who need jobs and just do what they are told by management.
bucolic_frolic
(47,142 posts)I don't go to Walmart anymore, or very rarely. I will not use self-checkout because every trip the red light trips and then someone 18 years old has to come and check that I'm not trying to steal something. At that point, your life is in the hands of a high-school student. Not that they're bad people, just that they're not the brightest.
But go ahead, keep up making excuses.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)as well as the cops who arrested them were MAGAts. Just saying, it's probably a pretty open and shut case of over-the-top stupidity all around. But if something lethal had happened to those guys in jail, would it have been like a conspiracy to commit involuntary homicide? (is that a thing?)
BTW, since we're, all of us every day, subject to petty authorities and brutally stupid enforcement at any time, it's a good idea to keep one's receipts handy. Seriously, in your pocket until you get home, and even then, keep them for a week or so. (You can't return stolen stuff or complain about broken merchandise without a receipt.) Just because you don't see your yellow arm band doesn't mean it's not there.
Botany
(72,536 posts)Walmart should have had videos of him in line to buy the sand and the
proof of his purchase of the material. I hope he sues the shit out of
Walmart and the sheriffs department.
IbogaProject
(3,686 posts)Only cash. I prefer humans I don't appreciate unpaid work at risk.