You have got to be kidding me!!

[MamaPeg]

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And sometimes they just forget!!! Been there, done that. More than once.

More than once? That's odd. How many times should someone get to "just forget," before it's considered stealing? People just don't get a bunch of passes on something like this.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

Getting arrested over a sandwich and having your child taken away? What has this world come to?...

 

[Matthew3590]

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Blame the child services. Both parents were arrested on scene so they had to come in and take it. The child was separated for 18 hours.

 

[cassie]

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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.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

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Blame the child services. Both parents were arrested on scene so they had to come in and take it. The child was separated for 18 hours.

I know, but still. The whole situation is rediculous.

 

[caspernc]

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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.

YUP!

 

[JulieNKC]

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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.

 

[caspernc]

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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.

YUP!

cassi, I was agreeing with you.....just to be clear on that!

 

[cassie]

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And sometimes they just forget!!! Been there, done that. More than once.

More than once? That's odd. How many times should someone get to "just forget," before it's considered stealing? People just don't get a bunch of passes on something like this.

Because I get distracted. For the same reason I put Head & Shoulders shampoo instead of shower gel on my bath sponge this morning. At least I won't be getting dandruff on my tush. For the record, I have made off without paying for something from a store exactly twice. Twice is more than once. I did pay for the items once I realized what I had done. Twice does not include the time I stole that woman's purse (yes she got it back, and no, I have no idea how much if any money was in it because I didn't look) and the time I tried to break into the BMW thinking it was my rental. See my former post.

 

[Matthew3590]

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Try to imagine on that second time when you went to go pay for it the store had to sadly tell you they have a policy that says items that left the store can not be purchased. So they follow protocol and call the police and have you and your husband arrested. Since Child services are nosy they require that if both parents are arrested while having a child with them child services has to come and take it. This is what happened to that couple.