Naughty, Not Nice
Shortly before Christmas, store security officers at a Walmart in Port St. Lucie, Fla., were watching as a man loitered around the exit with merchandise he hadn’t paid for. He was pretty hard to miss: the merchandise was a 58-inch television set, loaded into a shopping cart. The man made a break for it, but security was ready. To evade security, the man actually ran back into the store in a bid to escape. It didn’t help: the store was crawling with police — the store’s “Shop with a Cop” charity event was in full swing. “Several” St. Lucie County sheriffs deputies ran after him, and arrested James Walsh for grand theft, “resisting a merchant,” and resisting an officer without violence. (RC/WPEC West Palm Beach) ...And here we thought we all had a duty to “resist” merchants.Author’s Note: See also “Police Presence” in This is True Volume 17, from Portland, Ore.
Original Publication Date: 25 December 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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