mom'sfolly :
I'm sort of surprised by the number of people here who eat and drink at the grocery store. I think it is rude, but that is just me. It's a store, not a restaurant. If you can't take your kids someplace without feeding them, they probably shouldn't be at that place, at that time...
mom'sfolly :
I think there was a huge overreaction on the part of the police, but not neccesarily the store. Having the police handcuff and take you away shoplifting $5 worth of stuff seems like overkill, and why take both parents. My guess is that there is something else not being mentioned...
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both my parents are diabetic, including my step father who is on insulin shots, my mother for a long time was a single parent who worked full time and went to school and one of the children had emotional issues and was special needs which makes shopping very difficult. I only saw her...
while the store may over reacted, the woman did steal, accidently or not. She ate food before she paid for it which is just wrong and rude, IMO.
And how do we know it was an accident. I have seen people do stuff like that then claim they just forgot to pay for the food they munched on...