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justletmelive wrote

Well, it didn't work. This happened in a low-crime area where cops have nothing to do and, I imagine, either the LP had a working relationship with a local cop or else he called the cops and just said, "Hey, I've got someone trying to walk out with my merchandise. Can you send someone over?"

This was a period of time where I was stealing the exact same item every day at the exact same time, using the exact same method. One day, for whatever reason (I don't remember what was going through my head, exactly; this was a long time ago), I went inside and just sat down on a bench in the front of the store. Next thing I know, police everywhere. When they asked me whether I'd stolen anything, I just replied, "Not today." The LP guy (it was the same guy working there for several years, and he was never exactly discreet) was standing behind them. They didn't press the matter after asking me that, so my guess is that he called the cops as soon as he saw me on the premises and then realized he fucked up as he reviewed the camera footage on their way over. Again, if I'd known better, I'd have made an issue of it.

I've had LP from that Walmart chase me across the parking lot and threaten to beat me up over $30 of merchandise (never saw that guy again, so I'm not sure if he kept his job), so all I can say to that is that how it's supposed to work or how it "usually" works isn't always how it works. This is a couple of incidents out of the dozens or hundreds of times I've stolen from the place, and I was not engaging in best practices in either case (in the first case, I was establishing a really obvious pattern, and in the second, I was shoplifting drunk and bolted for the door with a handful or merchandise when I was 30 feet out), but these things do happen.

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