Also some libraries carry power tools and kitchen tools that you can borrow if you need something only occasionally
Do they have heroin tho?
Not yet, but with the can do attitude of heroin addicts, anything is possible
Walmart loss prevention are terrible. They are willing to die so Walmart doesn’t lose $35 worth of food.
I saw a police cam video of a woman who accidentally didn’t scan a $10 item. No big deal. I have been guilty of that myself. You get reminded to scan the item.
These L&P people called the cops and then the cops called for back up. They stopped the woman before she left and had her arrested.
No prior offenses. She had a baby with her (less than a year old). Just someone who made a simple mistake and would easily be fixed with simple conversation.
But Walmart L&P was not having it. Telling the cops to charge her to the furthest extent
Even the cops were like “Hey she didn’t do this maliciously. She has not left the store. She can still pay for the item. “
Walmart L&P told the cops to “teach her a lesson”
The cops were “nice enough” to wait until the baby’s father arrived to take the baby but the woman got arrested for not ringing up a $10 item
The L&P had these smug looks as if they took down some Batman villain. Giving each other high fives when this woman was put in cuffs.
I believe you but why do cops do what Walmart employees tell them?
I’m guessing that the L&P staff are acting as legal proxies, and therefore can press charges
I’m not a lawyer, and maybe this is just a US-centric understanding, but someone “pressing charges” doesn’t force the police to arrest the accused person, let alone actually charge them with a criminal offense. Pressing charges, at least to my understanding, is notifying police of a crime, pointing out the offender, and tacitly agreeing to cooperate if the police need more information.
You might be right. I am also not a lawyer, and I’m also in the US. I assumed that they would arrest since Walmart is technically provate property, L&P might have had her legally removed for trespassing? I don’t know, who knows. It might also just be that the police were just listening to the orders of their corporate overlords 🤷
Given that the police were trying to get L&P to drop it, I’m betting they just took her to the station and had her husband pick her up so they didn’t have to deal with L&P anymore.
Since she didn’t leave the store with the item, she didn’t actually steal anything.