Murphy's Laws
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What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania
This happend to a friend today. She was in Walmart. She tried on a necklace worth $10. Then her friend who works there approached her and they conversed for about 15 min. She forgot about the necklace which was still around her neck. After paying for her other items worth $100 and still forgetting about the necklace, she walked out of walmart and was detained by loss prevention. She apologized for forgetting about the item, returned the necklace and told her story in the loss prevention office.
Now she was embarrassed and disturbed, which is understandable as Loss Prevention probably deals with tons of actual shoplifters daily, and they treated her just like a common criminal.
Now all they asked of her was for the item back, her driver's license number (they didn't make a copy, just wrote the number down), address and phone number. They had her initial, not sign, that her personal information was correct. They also gave her a copy of Pennsylvania's Statute 8308 on "Damages in actions on retail theft".
She was let go, no police, just her initials for her personal information, a copy of those statutes, and Loss prevention verbally telling her walmart may send a fine in the mail within 2 weeks and that if she was "caught" again she would be banned from walmart.
This is very disturbing to her as the process she endured for an innocent mistake has left her ready to puke and cry. She's even prepared to pay whatever fine walmart wants, she's just not a fighting type of person.
My questions:
1. Does she have to pay any fines that they said walmart may send?
2. Can they file criminal charges?
This happend to a friend today. She was in Walmart. She tried on a necklace worth $10. Then her friend who works there approached her and they conversed for about 15 min. She forgot about the necklace which was still around her neck. After paying for her other items worth $100 and still forgetting about the necklace, she walked out of walmart and was detained by loss prevention. She apologized for forgetting about the item, returned the necklace and told her story in the loss prevention office.
Now she was embarrassed and disturbed, which is understandable as Loss Prevention probably deals with tons of actual shoplifters daily, and they treated her just like a common criminal.
Now all they asked of her was for the item back, her driver's license number (they didn't make a copy, just wrote the number down), address and phone number. They had her initial, not sign, that her personal information was correct. They also gave her a copy of Pennsylvania's Statute 8308 on "Damages in actions on retail theft".
She was let go, no police, just her initials for her personal information, a copy of those statutes, and Loss prevention verbally telling her walmart may send a fine in the mail within 2 weeks and that if she was "caught" again she would be banned from walmart.
This is very disturbing to her as the process she endured for an innocent mistake has left her ready to puke and cry. She's even prepared to pay whatever fine walmart wants, she's just not a fighting type of person.
My questions:
1. Does she have to pay any fines that they said walmart may send?
2. Can they file criminal charges?
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