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From: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stock Control Tags and Theft
Message-ID: <2772@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 07:27:13 GMT
References: <13911@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
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In article <13911@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>, hbg6@citek.mcdphx.mot.com writes:
> This did happen to me at a local Kmart. No tags but the "security" guy
> said he saw me put something in my front pocket. I did, a somewhat
> used Kleenex. The manager told me to empty my pocets and I refused.
> When the cops showed up, they asked me to empty my pockets and I said
> I sould not submit to a search and they would have to arrest me. The
> cop said they could not and the security guy would have to. They also
> pointed out the dangers of false arrest to the jerk. He declined, the
> cops left, and I've never gone to the store again.
> 
> John


 I guess the only thing about this, which I might not have been
 able to resist, would be to empty my pockets with the cops 
 watching once I was outside... probably some legal reason not
 to do this, though...


 - Bob Wier

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