Forgot to Pay for a Plant at Lowes, Walked Out from Exit While on Phone
My question involves criminal law for the state of:kansas
its been two days ? will they charge me for shoplifting i want to go back and pay.
but not sure if that will make it more complicated?
And that plant is the only thing thats in my cart , its worth like $75
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Go back, explain you noticed the plant wasn't paid for when you checked your receipt. Oh wait, you don't have a receipt. Offer to pay. They will just take your money and maybe thank you for your honesty.
It is unlikely the customer service people will even get LP involved.
Just so you know, yours is a story many shoplifters will try if they get caught. So if LP is around and you do something stupid like that again, odds are very good they are going to grab you up depending on what else they may have observed.
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My question involves criminal law for the state of:kansas
its been two days ? will they charge me for shoplifting i want to go back and pay.
but not sure if that will make it more complicated?
And that plant is the only thing thats in my cart , its worth like $75
So you are a complete bubble head or you have shoplifter's remorse. You go to a store and put one item in your cart, the plant. You walk out of the store without paying for the only item that you went to shop for because you were distracted being on the phone. Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? At the very least, you would have realized that you did not pay after you got off your phone and found yourself in the car.
Don't go back to the store to confess your crime. They could make an example of you that could leave you with a criminal record. Just wait to see if they pursue you and deal with it when the time comes.
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Go back, explain you noticed the plant wasn't paid for when you checked your receipt. Oh wait, you don't have a receipt. Offer to pay. They will just take your money and maybe thank you for your honesty.
It is unlikely the customer service people will even get LP involved.
Just so you know, yours is a story many shoplifters will try if they get caught. So if LP is around and you do something stupid like that again, odds are very good they are going to grab you up depending on what else they may have observed.
Sorry but I disagree with this advice. The risk is too high that they will do something more than just happily take your money.
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Sorry but I disagree with this advice. The risk is too high that they will do something more than just happily take your money.
If they were to do something, which based on the current state of Lowe's LP system I highly doubt and my 10+ years in LP, it would be a chicken$%^! move by the LP person. Could it happen? Sure but the odds of it are so low as to be near an impossibility. But OP is free to keep plant they stole if it's a concern for them.
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whats the chance them seeing surveillance getting my car plates and tracking me ?
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whats the chance them seeing surveillance getting my car plates and tracking me ?
Depends on the store. Possibly really good or possibly really bad.
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Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?
The reason talking on a cellphone while driving a car is illegal is because it is proven to be distracting. This would apply to walking while talking on a phone too, unless you can tell why it would only be distracting to 'bubble heads.'
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So...you put a $75 plant in your shopping cart and then not only proceeded to walk out of the store with it, but you also loaded it into your car and took it home. Right?
How could you claim with a straight face that you "forgot to pay" for the plant? A $75 plant has to be fairly sizable and, while can see accidentally walking out forgetfully while on the phone, I couldn't find what you appear to be describing as credible.
By the way, posting about your crime on the internet and including identification of the victim of the crime was not terribly smart. You even chose the store name as your screen name?! It appears there are only a dozen or so of the stores that you mentioned in the state that you mentioned, so it wouldn't be terribly difficult for you to be identified from this thread.
At the end of the day, no one here can how what might happen or how the store personnel might react if you return and tell your implausible story.
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lowes
My question involves criminal law for the state of:kansas
its been two days ? will they charge me for shoplifting i want to go back and pay.
but not sure if that will make it more complicated?
And that plant is the only thing thats in my cart , its worth like $75
Go back to the store. Confess, sinner. Take whatever punishment you deserve.
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whats the chance them seeing surveillance getting my car plates and tracking me ?
Excellent.
They could be on the way to your door right now.
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So...you put a $75 plant in your shopping cart and then not only proceeded to walk out of the store with it, but you also loaded it into your car and took it home. Right?
How could you claim with a straight face that you "forgot to pay" for the plant? A $75 plant has to be fairly sizable and, while can see accidentally walking out forgetfully while on the phone, I couldn't find what you appear to be describing as credible.
By the way, posting about your crime on the internet and including identification of the victim of the crime was not terribly smart. You even chose the store name as your screen name?! It appears there are only a dozen or so of the stores that you mentioned in the state that you mentioned, so it wouldn't be terribly difficult for you to be identified from this thread.
At the end of the day, no one here can how what might happen or how the store personnel might react if you return and tell your implausible story.
Do you also find it "implausible" how a person can run a red light or veer out of their lane while talking on the phone. I suppose they do that intentionally too, huh?
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adjusterjack
Go back to the store. Confess, sinner. Take whatever punishment you deserve.
Funny, what I watch you do here every day is a 'sin.' Using your sparse knowledge of the law to hurt and criticize people.
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My question involves criminal law for the state of:kansas
its been two days ? will they charge me for shoplifting i want to go back and pay.
but not sure if that will make it more complicated?
And that plant is the only thing thats in my cart , its worth like $75
I don't suggest going back, telling them that you walked out with the plant without paying for it, and then offering to pay for it. While I agree with most of the others that it's not likely the store would make a criminal complaint about it and even if it does, it is unlikely on these facts that the prosecutor would take up the case, there is at least some possibility (small though it is) that those things could happen. If you want to do the right thing in paying for the plant, I suggest you get a money order for the $75 and send it anonymously to the company (and keep a record of the money order). That way you'll not have said anything to store personnel that could potentially be used against you or drawn any attention to yourself at the store over it.
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adjusterjack
Go back to the store. Confess, sinner. Take whatever punishment you deserve.
On this occasion Jack I'm going to say you've provided very poor advice.
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Excellent.
They could be on the way to your door right now.
That's extremely unlikely.
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went back payed for it told i was so sorry and really not mean to shplift . END OF STORY . Thank you all for scaring the shit out of me
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Thank you all for scaring the shit out of me
That was the idea.
So you'll never do it again.
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That was the idea.
So you'll never do it again.
So after all that was said and done, you still think the OP intentionally stole the plant?
If so, there is no help for you.