Walmart mistakenly accuse man of shoplifting.Cops roll their eyes when he says he can show the receipt

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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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]

1. man and son spend night in jail.

[cstanleytech]

2. Followed soon hopefully by man sues Walmart and police department.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. oh they will sue cops and Walmart

[cstanleytech]

4. I would hope so.

[3Hotdogs]

17. $25k from WallyWorld and $75K from the cops

for being incompetent.

[Otterdaemmerung]

5. The sheer stupidity!

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]

7. right?

heh

[hlthe2b]

6. Why in the hell would cops not let him produce the receipt?

I know. I know... The question is mainly rhetorical.

[Think. Again.]

8. Walmart seems to do that a LOT...

...especially to people using the self-checkout for some reason.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

9. Just one more reason for me to not use it.

I don’t get a discount for doing someone’s 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 man’s family wins a big settlement from Walmart and whoever is responsible for the police department.

[jimfields33]

10. I guess they decided that self checkouts aren't worth the hassle and are beginning to phase them out.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Walmart employees are not the brightest bunch

Now the cops are in cahoots in the intelligence department

[JPPaverage]

12. Sounds elitist to me

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]

15. Then why do they make mistakes like in this OP? Facts bother you?

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]

13. There is a better than 60% chance the employee who determined their guilt..........

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]

14. If I was going to steal something it wouldn't be sand.

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 sheriff’s department.

[IbogaProject]

16. Dont use credit at self serve

Only cash. I prefer humans I don't appreciate unpaid work at risk.