From Maryland. About 1 month ago I began receiving letters from a law firm demanding that I pay them 400 and some odd dollars as compensation for an "incident" that supposedly occurred at my local K-Mart on 8/29/06 . After some effort, I managed to learn that they were accusing me of shoplifting $159.00 worth of something or other. I wasn't even in the store on that day, much less stealing anything. My father went to the store first and the management denied any knowledge of anything. My girlfriend called the law firm and learned from a snotty woman that I was caught on video stealing something, and to contact loss and prevention at the store where this is supposed to have happened. She went to the store 2 times and could get no answers, as the Loss and Prevention department, a girl named Kristan, was on vacation, going to return on Thursday. In the meantime, the county police came to my house when I happened not to be home in order to serve me a summons regarding this allegation. Whatever. Finally, I went to the store on Thursday, and Kristan still wasn't there. 5 trips later, I finally was able to have an employee get her on the phone and ask her to come out and speak with me so we could resolve this. She sent another employee out to lie to me and say that she "wasn't in the building". I told him that I knew she was there and hiding from me for some reason. Then the first employee came back and said that she was there, reviewing the case and couldn't come out for security reasons. Then the second employee came out and told me that Kristan said that someone else had been caught shoplifting and had used my name. I said that I knew that and wanted to see the tape so I could see who was doing this, as I probably knew them. He said he didn't have access to the tape, and Kristan wasn't coming out, ever. Whatever. This happened today and I'm still pissed and wondering what I should do about it. This has caused me much aggravation.
Everyone that has heard about it thinks I'm guilty. Funny thing what people believe just because it was said by a law firm to be true. Whatever. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike

From Maryland. About 1 month ago I began receiving letters from a law firm demanding that I pay them 400 and some odd dollars as compensation for an "incident" that supposedly occurred at my local K-Mart on 8/29/06 . After some effort, I managed to learn that they were accusing me of shoplifting $159.00 worth of something or other. I wasn't even in the store on that day, much less stealing anything. My father went to the store first and the management denied any knowledge of anything. My girlfriend called the law firm and learned from a snotty woman that I was caught on video stealing something, and to contact loss and prevention at the store where this is supposed to have happened. She went to the store 2 times and could get no answers, as the Loss and Prevention department, a girl named Kristan, was on vacation, going to return on Thursday. In the meantime, the county police came to my house when I happened not to be home in order to serve me a summons regarding this allegation. Whatever. Finally, I went to the store on Thursday, and Kristan still wasn't there. 5 trips later, I finally was able to have an employee get her on the phone and ask her to come out and speak with me so we could resolve this. She sent another employee out to lie to me and say that she "wasn't in the building". I told him that I knew she was there and hiding from me for some reason. Then the first employee came back and said that she was there, reviewing the case and couldn't come out for security reasons. Then the second employee came out and told me that Kristan said that someone else had been caught shoplifting and had used my name. I said that I knew that and wanted to see the tape so I could see who was doing this, as I probably knew them. He said he didn't have access to the tape, and Kristan wasn't coming out, ever. Whatever. This happened today and I'm still pissed and wondering what I should do about it. This has caused me much aggravation.
) on our vacation. 3:30 am and everything and everyone was soaken wet. I have pictures. Not cool. So, I felt I had every right to return the piece of crap. I wheeled it, full of sand and in peices into the store in a cart and gave it back to them. Of course it was on sale, and I only received $159 on a K-Mart card, losing about $20, but whatever. 
