I don’t know if I would want to go shopping in Brooklyn Ohio. It just seems like a risky thing to do.
All joking aside. I have done what this guy did before, totally accidental. Now, I am just happy to not have a record.
Intentional or not, it was obviously theft. Shame on the store for pressing charges, that’s ridiculous. If theft at the self-checkout is a problem, put somebody there to remind customers to check under the cart.
I actually walked right through the doors once with a bag of cheese in my hands, I was just walking towards the front of the store and started thinking about something, before I knew it I was outside without paying. I did go back in to pay for it.
Another time I was at walmart and needed to measure something, so I went to the tool section to grab a tape measure. After I was done using it, out of habit I clipped it onto my jeans pocket, packaging and all. I walked right out with it, too and didn’t realize it until I got to the truck.
The title got moderated. It originally referenced that this happened in the same town as the guy busted at Best Buy for not showing his receipt. I think Lixy posted the other story.
That is why I labeled Brooklyn, Ohio a little bit of a challenge to shoppers, lol. One guy gets busted for not showing his receipt, The other gets busted after showing his. It does not seem as this guy got to worked up, unlike the Best Buy guy.
In this case, it really goes to intent. We were not there, but this looks like a case of a store cop that might have been looking for something to do.
I’m glad I live in a country where this is just not possible.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
I’m glad I live in a country where this is just not possible.[/quote]
I assume this is irony.
No.
As far as I’m informed, it’s not possible for me to get arrested and put in jail for something trivial like this.
theft is normally a specific intent crime. From memory the crim is: The taking of the personal property of another with the intent of permanently depriving the owner of it’s use.
In this case it would seem difficult to prove intent.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
No.
As far as I’m informed, it’s not possible for me to get arrested and put in jail for something trivial like this.
[/quote]
What specifically would prevent this?
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
No.
As far as I’m informed, it’s not possible for me to get arrested and put in jail for something trivial like this.
What specifically would prevent this? [/quote]
Schwarzfahrer is obviously a fucking ninja.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
No.
As far as I’m informed, it’s not possible for me to get arrested and put in jail for something trivial like this.
[/quote]
Neither did anyone think it was possible for one to be arrested for something trivial like his or her ethnicity - until it happened. In Germany.
Yawn. I get it.
I must hate America so you must show me how you hate Germany even more and righteously so, you brave hunk you!
Actually, being arrested for ethnicity is as ols as judicial history.
Didn’t fanta soda originate in Germany?
By the way…thanks for the post senatorjaiz…I enjoy reading/hearing news of the extremity.
yep.
No cola in WW2 Germany. Since the Nazi’s didn’t want to look bad, the demanded something similar schnell, schnell.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Yawn. I get it.
I must hate America so you must show me how you hate Germany even more and righteously so, you brave hunk you!
Actually, being arrested for ethnicity is as ols as judicial history.
[/quote]
I don’t hate Germany at all, nor do I think it would be righteous to hate Germany. Nor do I think that you necessarily hate America.
Your statement was simply perplexing. That such a thing “is just not possible” implies that it is impossible for any person vested with authority to make the kind of judgment call that the officer did in this case. Why is it impossible? I only bring up Germany’s past because you implied that your country (Germany) was immune to abuses of power, if this arrest be classed as such, and this seems plainly false. Certainly there are many virtuous German citizens vested with power. And certainly there are also corrupted individuals who may abuse power.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Actually, being arrested for ethnicity is as ols as judicial history.[/quote]
WOW! So, judicial history in Germany runs as far back as the 1920’s?
[quote]
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
No.
As far as I’m informed, it’s not possible for me to get arrested and put in jail for something trivial like this.
Sloth wrote:
What specifically would prevent this? [/quote]
They only sold Fanta in Nazi Germany, so you could not get arrested for stealing Coke or Pepsi products. Only knock offs that were sold to Germany under a guise, like Fanta.
[quote]nephorm wrote:
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Yawn. I get it.
I must hate America so you must show me how you hate Germany even more and righteously so, you brave hunk you!
Actually, being arrested for ethnicity is as ols as judicial history.
I don’t hate Germany at all, nor do I think it would be righteous to hate Germany. Nor do I think that you necessarily hate America.
Your statement was simply perplexing. That such a thing “is just not possible” implies that it is impossible for any person vested with authority to make the kind of judgment call that the officer did in this case. Why is it impossible? I only bring up Germany’s past because you implied that your country (Germany) was immune to abuses of power, if this arrest be classed as such, and this seems plainly false. Certainly there are many virtuous German citizens vested with power. And certainly there are also corrupted individuals who may abuse power.[/quote]
But if Schwarzy’s dog barks at the wrong time, his neighbors can haul him into court.
And Heaven help him if he barbecues more than once per month.
I think if this type of talk were directed at israel, this place would be crawling with people shouting “anti-semitism zomg!”.
well trained americans; hate the germans, love the jews and your government, and no questions about it please.
btw neph, maybe you have heard about how america imprisoned japanese people in america, for being japanese, IN AMERICA?
[quote]Fullback33 wrote:
btw neph, maybe you have heard about how america imprisoned japanese people in america, for being japanese, IN AMERICA?[/quote]
I have. I am also aware of the eugenics movement that thrived in America, and that the illustrious Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes felt no qualms about forced sterilization.
I am, however, unaware of any genocides committed by the United States, much less against her own citizens. But that is neither here nor there.
I never maintained that the United States had an unblemished record, nor have I argued that abuses of power are impossible in our system.
Rather, Schwarzfahrer took on that burden. So to point fingers at me and scream that “America isn’t perfect!” is a non sequitur.
[quote]Fullback33 wrote:
I think if this type of talk were directed at israel, this place would be crawling with people shouting “anti-semitism zomg!”.
well trained americans; hate the germans, love the jews and your government, and no questions about it please.
btw neph, maybe you have heard about how america imprisoned japanese people in america, for being japanese, IN AMERICA?[/quote]
Got something on your mind, eh?