Posted on 08/02/2017 6:22:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Police responded to the Wal-Mar at 306 N. General’s Blvd. in Lincolnton around noon to a report of possible fraud.
When officers arrived, they were advised by a manager that a woman was trying to return items that were stolen from the store for a refund, a news release from the Lincolnton Police Department stated.
The items — 67 in total — included underwear, medical supplies, clothing, notebooks and magazines, the Charlotte Observer reported.
“There was no rhyme or reason,” one officer told the newspaper. “It was as if someone had randomly filled up a cart.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Irish Traveler?
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Could be. Travelers do this all the time.
Oddly, the article fails to mention her race.
Pic shows pale, defiant, scowling blonde.
Her name is McCabe.
When I was a kid in St Louis a guy went into a dept store and got a TV off the shelf and took it to the return window.
He said he wanted his money back or a replacement TV since it stopped working.
When they asked him when he bought it he said “about a year ago”
They told him they only accepted returns up to 30 days.
He had an actual receipt for the TV because a friend had bought the identical set and kept his receipt.
He raised a stink and they finally threw him and the TV out of the store...lol
I regret to say that I actually knew this person, he was the father of a close friend of mine :-/
Very late one night I was in a Walmart checkout line, the only one that was open, standing behind a middle aged white woman who had two carts full of stuff. She would pull one item out at a time, say "Price check," and wait for the cashier to tell her the item's price. She then rejected about half the items, so the cashier had to put them in a pile for restocking. The cashier tried to talk with her, but her response was not in English. I couldn't place the language, but it sounded Eastern European. Eventually she paid for her purchases and left.
I asked the cashier what it was all about, and she shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.
I still don't get it.
I have a lot of travelers stories to tell. I did a service call one time at a travelers house. HVAC. Big house with all the the statues. He tried to recruit me and payed me cash, including change. His drop dead gorgeous daughter snuck down stairs to watch me work. Really tripped me out. She took off when daddy was coming. Really weird.
I'm sure she was bought by a "made" man.
Not an Irish Traveler name as far as I’m aware but there is a decent size community of them not all that far away in South Carolina.
Junkies gotta make a living top
No surprise. It was a white chick. I knew before I read it.
I had heard a story that these “travelers” are taught that Jesus was nailed to the cross with a ‘golden spike’ and that one of them obtained that spike which granted them to right to steal whatever they wanted, or forgave them for the sin of theft or something...
It was the most bizarre thing I ever heard and a hideous justification to teach your children that stealing was OK.
Has anyone else ever heard this?
My understanding to that story is that the “spike” was an attempt to take the nails for the crucifixion.
Only made off with one of them though which is why Jesus feet were nailed with only one nail.
The reward for the attempt to stop the proceedings was the right to steal as you noted.
Still as you say...
Interesting.
That at least sounds better- but still, using it as justification for stealing? Not good.
I am glad someone else heard this story. I was beginning to thing i had just dreamed it or something.
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