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Odoreida

(1,549 posts) Mon Aug 13, 2018, 12:35 PM Aug 2018

Staples shopper pregnant with twins falsely accused of hiding items under her shirt

Staples shopper pregnant with twins falsely accused of hiding items under her shirt
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-pregnant-staples-shopper-accused-20180813-story.html

Sherell Bates is pregnant with twins, but apparently a Staples store manager in North Carolina had some doubts.

Bates was questioned by a police officer at a Pineville store on Friday after the manager asked him to speak with the very pregnant shopper. She was asked what was under her shirt.

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Cops said the officer approached Bates because the manager believed she could have been "concealing merchandise."

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Race not mentioned in the story, but here is a video at another link.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/pregnant-woman-upset-she-was-accused-of-shoplifting-at-pineville-staples/811252085

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Staples shopper pregnant with twins falsely accused of hiding items under her shirt (Original Post) Odoreida Aug 2018 OP

Well, the twins could have been accomplices...did anyone search them??? ret5hd Aug 2018 #1

Jesus Murphy! geardaddy Aug 2018 #2

The customer was so classy. underthematrix Aug 2018 #3

This happened to me...smh Quayblue Aug 2018 #4

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)

1. Well, the twins could have been accomplices...did anyone search them???

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2018, 12:40 PM

Aug 2018

Did they?

geardaddy

(25,342 posts)

2. Jesus Murphy!

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2018, 12:42 PM

Aug 2018

How stupid are people?

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)

3. The customer was so classy.

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2018, 12:53 PM

Aug 2018

Link to tweet

Quayblue

(1,045 posts)

4. This happened to me...smh

Reply to Odoreida (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2018, 08:23 PM

Aug 2018

My twins are now in junior high...

I was accused of stealing so I asked, "Do you want me to lift my shirt so you can see my fucking stomach? Would that make you happy?" The security guard immediately declined. I was at the end of a twin pregnancy in summertime and miserable.

I certainly wished I could have recorded it at the time.

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