Civil Liability and Ban From Store After Accidental Shoplifting

[cbg]

As mentioned before, everyone from the cashier on up to the DA has heard the "oh, it was an oversight" before, and from people who unquestionably were shoplifting. Even if a message board is willing to take your word for it that you/your daughter was the exception who really did overlook the items, please explain to me why law enforcement should just take your word for it? Do you think that no one with a white-collar job has ever stolen anything before? (Do the names Enron and Worldcom mean anything to you?)

[Andi]

LOL! I have. Didn't you get that.

[cbg]

Yes, I see where you assume that YOU are above suspicion and that YOUR word should be taken absolutely. Sorry, sweetheart, but the world doesn't work that way.

[Trailboss]

As an analyst for a large online brokerage firm I see many clients make mistakes, but in my world we do not bully, abuse, fine and fire our client’s for their ‘oversights’.

HAH! Considering the financial wreck this nation is in, maybe we should!

[Andi]

Quoting Andi
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As an analyst for a large online brokerage firm I see many clients make mistakes, but in my world we do not bully, abuse, fine and fire our client’s for their ‘oversights’.
HAH! Considering the financial wreck this nation is in, maybe we should!

Omg! Get a GRIP! Online traders are real, simple people that have 401Ks, IRAs, and individual accounts, not JPM and Citibank or ENRON (they have brokers). Wait a minute am I REALLY talking to real lawyers, because no one with any education would try to make THAT jump.

Let's get back to the original issue. My daughter was charged with shoplifting something I had in my cart, put through the register, paid for, and walked out with?

[cbg]

Yes, and you have yet to explain why law enforcement should simply assume you are telling the truth when you claim it was a mistake, since so many shoplifters make that claim. What is special about you?

[horsetrader]

I'd agree with the "simple" part.

[Andi]

Yes, and you have yet to explain why law enforcement should simply assume you are telling the truth when you claim it was a mistake, since so many shoplifters make that claim. What is special about you?

Honest mistakes can be made. Simply being offered the opportunity to pay for the items should have been an option.

[cbg]

Even acknowledging that honest mistakes can be made, and if you check you'll see that right from the beginning I have never said otherwise, you STILL have not explained why YOU - or, actually, your daughter - is such a special snowflake that YOU should have been offered the opportunity to pay when you did the exact same thing that so many shoplifters have done?

[PandorasBox]

Again, stores provide these things called SHOPPING CARTS. Some provide smaller baskets.

Simple concept: Her hands were full. She could have gotten a cart and then gone back to the display/aisle for her merchandise. Instead, she put them in another item, and the concealed items did not get paid for.