I hope that this does not comes as too much of a suprise to anyone here, but most issues like this are decided by Judges and courts by using some plain common sense. It must be obvious to almost everyone by now that the store employees did not use good common sense in this instance. It has to be really obvious that the police who responded had to be as dumb as stones and had no common sense whatsoever. The store executives realized what happened and said "OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE WE DONE" and quickly had their common sense buttons pushed and they apologised and exclaimed that these people did nothing wrong. The prosecutors, who rarely use common sense, even they said, "NO LAWS WERE BROKEN< NO CASE HERE." The only thing left in this matter is to see how much these innocent people will get in monetary compensation.
If you think that you are using common sense when you exclaim that people should not eat stuff in a grocery store and compare it to opening up sealed cans of food, then I must say (Terri made me do this) that I respect your opinions and sincerely hope you are never selcted for a jury trial. If you think it is using good common sense to compare this incident with someone coming onto your own private property and taking your chicken eggs, then again, I respect your opinion and hope that you also are never selcted for a jury trial. To my knowledge no major grocery store in the country (and that includes Safeway) has any policy to prohibit or even discourage people from eating their prepared foods in the store and I say if that type of behaviour offends you, then you should refrain from doing so but to condemn these people for doing so is just something that I will not put into words.
Someone here said that it was too bad that there is no thingy that would determine if these people intended to steal this food. I say to you that there is a thingy, and it is the use of some good common sense.
And just to end my rant this story has gotten so preposterous that even the NY Post, a newspaper that has to be the most conservative in the US reported this story in their "Too Wierd to Believe" column.
If you think that you are using common sense when you exclaim that people should not eat stuff in a grocery store and compare it to opening up sealed cans of food, then I must say (Terri made me do this) that I respect your opinions and sincerely hope you are never selcted for a jury trial. If you think it is using good common sense to compare this incident with someone coming onto your own private property and taking your chicken eggs, then again, I respect your opinion and hope that you also are never selcted for a jury trial. To my knowledge no major grocery store in the country (and that includes Safeway) has any policy to prohibit or even discourage people from eating their prepared foods in the store and I say if that type of behaviour offends you, then you should refrain from doing so but to condemn these people for doing so is just something that I will not put into words.
Someone here said that it was too bad that there is no thingy that would determine if these people intended to steal this food. I say to you that there is a thingy, and it is the use of some good common sense.
And just to end my rant this story has gotten so preposterous that even the NY Post, a newspaper that has to be the most conservative in the US reported this story in their "Too Wierd to Believe" column.
