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Yup. And according to you, I should be in the slammer. I took a lady's purse once. It was at a goat show and the purse was on the judge's table. It looked just exactly like mine, I thought it was mine, so I picked it up and took it home. It was several days before I had occasion to open it and discover it was NOT mine. I looked and mine was in the tack box where it had been all along. And then there was the time I tried to steal a car. To my untrained eye, the white compact BMW looked just like the white economy sardine can I had rented. Fortunately the key didn't work. I found my rental car three spaces down hidden between two large SUV's. If the owners of the BMW had come out while I was trying to get into their car they never would have believed anyone could have confused their fancy expensive car with a cheap compact. People make mistakes.
The store has a policy in place they have to follow. The police made the decision to arrest the parents, and have cps take the child in custody. There may have been reasons, the media is wonderful at only giving one side of the story. Anyway, why should $5 worth of merchandise be not as important as more? That's like saying it's ok for my neighbor's dog to come kill my $5 chicken, but not my $50 turkey. The food at a grocery store isn't yours to eat until you've paid for it anyway.
