Thanks to King5Seattle for the Tweet
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Shopping at WalMart to save money = smart move
Hitting the retired Marine greeter = Dumb move
“Don’t mess with a Marine” ping ;-)
LOL...looks like the old guy did the roughing up to me.
Why didn’t the numbnut just stop and show his receipt?
A little misleading at the end. There is no duty to show a receipt. The 5 years is for wailing on the greeter.
Those scanners go off for a lot of reasons other than shoplifting.
Skyler.
Snort.
Does this sentence make any sense? I guess you have to watch the video because this article is so poorly written it takes some real digging to find out what happened. Useless journalist.
The guy went to his car before coming back into the store, the odds are he dumped whatever set off the alarm in the car.
Why not just sentence him to having Bauman beat the hell out of him?
Failing to show the receipt in this case meant the difference between 10 seconds and five years.
LOL! To hell with that! He DISSED me!
I too wuld not have stopped for an alarm-I’d let the store folks call the police if they desired while I go about my business. My right from unreasonable search and seizure applies to the authorities, not a proprietor. Store employees, security or otherwise, may not control my actions w/o my permission, which I nor any reasonable person should not give.
If the store alarm system is not operated properly, that is not my problem. As a law-abiding, moral person, I would not have stolen anything and I check my receipt before leaving a cashier to insure all the items I purchased are on the receipt..
The idiot went way wrong by a) returning to the store for whatever reason, b) assaulting the store employee, even worse since the victim was an elder person-meant to be respected, not assaulted.
After watching the video all I can say is I hope that Skylar isn’t out procreating.
“The alarm was false and Lowery had a receipt for everything in his bag.”
I doubt it. Did they check the parking lot? I bet Skyler ditched whatever he stole.
Yesss.
Skyler?
What a frigging stupid name.
Why do these stories usually have ‘Walmart’ in the headline.... LOL!
Can someone tell me why he would need his license?
THe young man grabbed the clip board, the “Greeter” attcked him and shoed the younger man into the pylon. THe younger man fought back at that point.
If I was on the jury, the Marine would be getting the questions....
Yes, I watched the store video 5 times.
The old man is very aggressive. But, that’s an old school jarhead for ya....
Shame on Wal-Mart for expecting a guy this old to act as security.
That said I hate Wal-mart, but I shop there. Why? Becasue they have the stuff and are the closest retailer to me. I see their employees being abused by Hispanic Males all of the time. I have even stuck my nose in once or twice. The latest one was a white 30’s something checker in Garden working basically alone be smack talked by two 20 something Hispanic punks. I asked them to stop and one told me to F’off so I drove my cart over him. They left in a hurry. They just do not understand the old pissed off white guy thing.
Do not mess with old men they will just kill you.