Posted on 02/28/2015 3:13:00 AM PST by rickmichaels
Imagine youre browsing at Bloomingdales when a security guard taps you on the shoulder and accuses you of shoplifting. He takes you to a private room, sits you down, and runs your name through a database to see if you have any outstanding warrants. Then he tells you that you have two options. The first involves him calling the police, who might arrest you and take you to jail. The second allows you to walk out of the store immediately, no questions askedright after you sign an admission of guilt and agree to pay $320 to take an online course designed to make you never want to steal again.
Which would you choose?
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I'd be careful with that.
Federal law defines brandished as, with reference to a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) means that all or part of the weapon was displayed, or the presence of the weapon was otherwise made known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the weapon was directly visible to that person. Accordingly, although the dangerous weapon does not have to be directly visible, the weapon must be present. (18 USCS Appx § 1B1.1)
Yeah....
Yep. Absolutely!!! I’m on her side. :)
Well, I guess you’re both welcome to be wrong then. At the moment I purchase the item, I become the legal owner and am under no compunction to rove that I own it. It’s up to them to prove my guilt.
if you pay for the item I guess its not stealing
Yep. I get offended when I have to prove stuff. It hurts my feelings and we all know how important hurt feelings are
Wal-Mart (and other places) asks random people for the receipt, this is why people are stationed at the door.
You GUESS it’s not stealing??? (grin)
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