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When a disabled person, who was driven to Walmart after a 3 week period of not leaving his house is arrested and separated from his $230.00 worth of groceries and his wife and his medication(because they are narcotics) all because he misplaced a baseball, and it didn't get scanned at the register. Loss prevention was waiting for him at the door and took him straight to jail. He paid the $550.00 to get out of jail, but not but not before being handcuffed on a metal seat for the 20 mile trip to the jail with no way to stretch out my legs, which began to spasm. Although the sheriff's dept. was in possession of my prescriptions, they would not dispense them to me, and put me in the rubber room at the jail. He was in so much pain and the atmosphere only exasperated the issue. The dropout jailer dude would only tell Him that he was no doctor so he couldn't give him his (already prescribed) medication. He was only guilty of putting the baseball in his pocket long enough to answer the phone, but the content of the phone call distracted him so much that he had no recollection of placing the baseball in his pocket. He had 3 other items in his hand and those products did make it into the cart, and past the cash register. The main complaint is the lack of humanity on the part of the system, from the brainwashed employees of Walmart that think it is okay to haul disabled people to jail when it could have been cleared up right there on the spot, it was clearly a misunderstanding, and should have been handled as such. The complacency of the police dept. for allowing this arrest to occur, when they could have easily just allowed him to pay for the baseball and go home with his wife and groceries. The demand for money on the part of the legal community in my area, $1, 500.00 to handle the case. He was told that one particular lawyer had 20 walmart theft cases already this year...at $1, 500.00 a pop! Well, he went to talk to the prosecutor himself and got a pre-trial diversion, for $374.00. He was also required to attend a drug abuse evaluation which will cost something I'm sure. Here is a list of all the charges, I'll copy each one from the receipt given to him, except the booking charge, which was taken out of the $32.00 he had in his pocket when he was booked in, without his knowledge or whatnot, but it's not conversion if they do it. State Court cost: $84.00, County Court Cost: $32.40, City Court cost: $3.60, Automated record keeping $4.00, Clerk Record Perpetuation: $1.00, Public Defense Administration Fee: $5.00, Judicial Insurance Fee: $1.00, Judicial Salaries Fee: $19.00, Court Administration Fee: $5.00, DNA Sample Processing Fee: $2.00, Document Storage Fee: $2.00, Criminal-Diversion Fee: $170.00, 10% Cash Bond Administration Fee: $45.00. So there is my complaint. This system is just out to strip as much money from anyone caught up in it. I pray you all well...may you avoid getting wrapped up in a criminal case..it can be expensive, guilty or not. BTW, the loss prevention lady said that she was cutting him a break because she wasn't going to give a no trespass order to him. He is allowed to come back to their store, I don't think this is common practice, unless they know they are arresting someone just because they made a mistake, justifying their whole career I guess. It makes me sick to my stomach to talk about this subject, but I leave you with this...I nor him will EVER set one foot on their property again. Don't shop there, they don't care about you or your community, buy local. That is our lesson learned
I complained, which is just exactly what I wanted to do. I never said that the law wasn't broken, technically, but there is still some question as to whether it happened knowingly, OR intentionally. There was an admission to misplacing the baseball, my complaint is the lack of humanity given to individual situations. Not everything is as cut and dry as you "stop reading" peeps would like to think. Not every situation deserves to be resolved with an arrest, regardless of the law. The goal should be conflict resolution with an arrest being of last resort.The issuance of an order to appear would be appropriate if an arrest is found to be warranted in some situations. Not every item taken beyond the final point of payment is a stolen item, accidents happen. A system that worked would ask questions and act according to the facts, and stop putting non-violent petty misdemeanor cases in jail. Once again, I complained, and that was my goal. Someone, somewhere, just might read this and be more aware of their surroundings, and don't expect compassion from those with power. Know your place, and adhere to the letter of the law. Shop local, and if you accidentally put a baseball in your walker pocket, instead of your shopping cart the cashier will let you know, and allow you to make the purchase as you intended.
No nothing more to the story, it's exactly as said. Got a pre-trial diversion, after the tape was looked into by the prosecutor, who thinks it was an accident too, btw. It ended up costing about 1, 500.00 and a whole lot of humble pie. Accidents happen, and our system is set up to exploit any and all persons possible. No one is immune to this. If one more person is more careful while shopping, then, job done.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
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Don't really agree with blaming Walmart. Those "brainwashed" employees could lose their jobs if they don't report thefts. Sounds like the police were the ones who went overboard.
I'm sorry for your?, someone's? bad experience though.
Putting a baseball into your pocket does not really qualify as "misplacing" it, ans Walmart was not inhumane in their treatment of the thief. Perhaps the police were a bit overboard, but that has nothing to do with Walmart, and other than what happened in the holding cell regarding the medications, his disability had absolutely nothing to do with his being arrested. If LP was waiting for him, that ball must have been in his pocket for a while.
Yeah right thudbraion. You enjoy jumping on the crybabies.com bandwagon.
Why would you put the ball in your pocket when you answered your phone? Oh wait sorry - why would "he" put the baseball in "his" pocket when he answered "his" phone?
That is not a logical solution. Put the item down, certainly. Put it in the cart/basket? Perfectly sensible. PLACE A BASEBALL IN MY POCKET? ummm no. Especially since it is hard NOT to notice that you have said baseball in that pocket. What happened when you hung up the phone? You must have put that phone back and noticed there was a ball there. OR at the very least felt the ball in your pocket.
You stole, you got caught. End of. Being disabled makes no nevermind. It should not be a "get out of jail free" card so to speak.
"thudbraion? LOL! Did you forget how to spell "brain"? I suppose I'm stoopid too?" hahaa yes you are two stuupid to realize I missspellled it on purpuse, and you fell for it hoook lein and sincker... hahahaahah
Those perverts deserve to lose their job for harassing an old man who is crippled.
Tasha is a troll, but she hits it on the nail on this one. So does everyone else.
I have accidentally taken something home when I did not pay for it. It can happen. I just returned it the next day and explained the situation and they were all okay about it. In one incident I was buying gifts during Christmas and I forgot to pick up tape. I went emptying my bags to see if there was anything else I forgot and put the tape in one of the bags. Then I got another tape not knowing that while checking my other purchases that I put the tape in the bag. I noticed it when I got to the car. Then another time I was buying candy for my children and their friends and I miscounted them so I had one that I did not pay for. So it is possible for something like this happen. However I think there is more to this story. If this were the first offense and it was a small item like a baseball and a disabled man who stole it they would not throw him in jail especially over an accident. They would have seen him distracted by the phone call and understood this was not done on purpose. Their policy is not to even press charges on items under $25 from what I heard. I really think there is more to this story than they are telling us.
Interesting story. One detail that was not initially made clear is that the baseball was placed into the pocket of his walker and not his trousers. That is an important detail, though it is not a critical point since it's a lot easier to forget inthe walker than stuffed into a pants leg. I, too, have once or thrice placed items temporarily into my pocket while in a store. This has particularly been true when it was winter and I was overbulked with clothes and there was no place to temporarily place down one of the items that filled my hands so that I could pick up and inspect a new one, and my pockets were large and open. I've been taught that the floor is a dirty place to place, so I obviously was looking for a clean alternative. This was most likely to happen when I had an item in hand that was not easy to just set down and expect it to stay (such as a tippy object or, say, a baseball). I put the first item into my pocket, picked up the new one to inspect it, and then squeezed the new one back onto the full shelf. And then I took the first item out of my pocket again. No big deal. Whether the original poster is a thief or not, just by reading their prose it's clear they are not the clearest thinkers or have the strongest memory, and I can see how it's posible they really DID forget that there was a baseball at the bottom of the kangaroo pouch attached to their walker. Unsaid in all of this is that we consider the intent of an action as well as the action itself when we decide what to call it. We don't know what was in the man's mind when he put the ball into his pocket. In fact, there's a lot we don't know about the incident and we're all just filling in the blanks from our own history and prejudices. So this was either an accident or a theft, and it appears to me that what YOU call it has as much to say about YOU as it does the original poster. Think about that a little.
Here's a question - doesn't your constant following and commenting on Tasha's trolling constitute trolling as well? I mean, maybe I am wrong - but what are you doing that is so different from those you choose to label?
Well let me start - Trmn8r is a troll who stalks the boards trying to be superior to others and calls out other trolls.
Ahh there - finally - a member with the guts to call you out on your trolling.
haven't read enough of trmn8r's comments to offer an opinion, but Tasha has had 8 profiles (Tasha1, Tasha2, Tasha3, etc) and she is definitely a troll
I just called that Walmart and was informed that the OP (Michelle Connery's son) was arrested for the fourth time shoplifting at Walmart.
About six years ago, his mother wrote a review on my3cents about a security guard being too rough on her son, when he caught him munching on a candybar without paying for it. Here's the link
http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=14668
When you said you were disabled I stopped caring. Who cares? No one that's who. Tell the story and leave out all the extra crap you use to get us to feel sorry for you.
Deezil,
What is wrong with me liking dick? You are afraid that if you get a taste you will be turned out. Come on down to the beach. I got something long and hard for you to suck. If your ### comments are meant to hurt my feelings you suck at that. Why don't you come and suck my dick maybe you can do a better job of that.
I dont understand. CNN showed some illegal kids graduating from college complaining that this is nice, but not enough.
Damn brats are so smart and just want a chance, but they cant figure out how to apply for citizenship? The second they turned 18 it should have been a requirement. Instead, , we send them to college and give then medical coverage.
Oh, and I am still paying off my student loans even though I have been out of school damn near two decades. Many of these kids are getting a free ride.
I just want to know why people cant follow proper channels and why they are rewarded for cheating the system.
Mostly what I want is that damn fool out of office. NOW.
Knowingly or accidentally, when you steal and get caught, you accept the consequences of your actions. No one did anything wrong here but your husband.
A pretrial diversion is NOT an 'you are innocent let's bypass the court system and you are right' situation. A pretrial diversion is a probationary program you have to complete to keep your butt out of jail. You basically admit your guilt, take your punishment and go out in the world to steal again.