Since she actually is pregnant, how could she have “...not look[ed] pregnant five minutes ago”?
It was sure nice of the Walmart employee to give the pregnant lady a reason to sue Walmart for a million dollars!
Um, fake “pregnant” suits are a common tool of some criminals. See for example https://youtu.be/Pbi-SmYiOXY
WHAAAAA! Woe is me!
What is it with people and their desire to be a victim. So what. She had to show him that she wasn’t stealing by her shirt. Was the employee just doing his job or somehow “dissing” her?
If it’s that much trouble, shop somewhere else!
That’ll look impressive on that guy’s unemployment application: “I asked a pregnant woman to prove she was pregnant.” Even more interesting when answering the question on the employment application about why he left his last job.
A serious lack of knowledge by this woman. Would that we would ALL understand the Constitution!
Security: Ma’am are you pregnant?
Woman: Why do you ask? Please call the “real police” if you have any further questions. Bye.
And, by-the-way, any attempt to physically detain me will be considered assault. I can legally respond to such actions up-to and including the use of any legally possessed weapons I may currently have.
Followed by a simple, “Capice?”
As a teenager I worked in a grocery store, and I was running a cash register when this black woman comes zipping in between the lines with cokes in each hand.
I stopped her and said “Mam, do you have a receipt for that?”
Instant Angry Black Woman!!!
She did have a receipt. She had paid and for whatever reason had to go back to get the cokes. One of the other cashiers backed her up, but not before I’d gotten a good cussing!
Store manager came out and backed me up though.
She should have realized what it looked like and just shown me her receipt, instead of coping an attitude.
Lady those breasts look extremely large. I am going to have to check them out.
The theft is real and it c!OSes stores down.
Should have asked for a lady cop.
I’ve seen them ask to see the receipt before, but this is outrageous.
She should have refused.
I hate reporters.
Another person wanting to get her 15 minutes of sympathy and media attention perhaps?
‘You did not look pregnant five minutes ago,’—the miracle of GMOs.
Here’s the problem for stores: Some women fake being pregnant, and stuff a bunch of merchandise or food in their “belly” as a way of stealing it. Stores HAVE to be able to inspect/search someone that they believe may be a thief. If done in a reasonable and respectful manner, the vast majority of people don’t have a problem with this.
Here’s Walmart’s problem: This guy should have asked her to step aside, explain why he was asking her that, and then called over a FEMALE employee to go into the restroom with the customer to visually check for pregnant vs. (somewhat) imaginative thief. That he did this himself, in public view, is a Class A problem for Walmart. This is classic bad/no training, and unless and until Walmart gets its act together on this issue, they’ll continue to have incidents like this, some percentage of which will result in lawsuits.
FYI, I NEVER open my bags for the greeters/inspectors. I don’t steal, so I won’t be inspected like a common thief in a store that is open to the public (as opposed to Sam’s Club, which is membership-based and which demands that its members submit to a rudimentary inspection of whatever is leaving the store). I always wish the greeters/inspectors a nice day, but I won’t be inspected. If, someday, one of them is extremely persistent, then I will demand that they get a manager - who’s name I will obtain, and whom I will inform that I will not submit to a search without a police officer present. Guaranteed, they will let me go - and I will report the store to Walmart management for being insulting (no lawsuits for me, even though I’m an attorney). I just refuse to be treated like garbage, or to do whatever some ill-educated dunce tells me to do, just “because.”