Shoplifting suspect strategies

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There is always a security guy in my supermarket, who hangs about near the checkouts, and lurches from aisle to aisle (though he never enters an aisle, just remains at the checkout end) following suspects.

This morning, I was the suspect. It was 11am, and most of the customers were elderly women. I was the only scruffy, hungry-looking, unshaven, and vaguely youthful male. Still, it was insulting.

I mebbe brought the attention on myself cos I'm not much interested in food, and can never think of what to buy, so I was hanging about aimlessly. But he made it obvious that he was watching me and it pissed me off.

So I did the following:

1) I stood perfectly still facing him, and stared him out.

2) Then I went to a different aisle, and turned my back to him, leaned in against the shelf (containing quiches) and did suspicious hand movements inside my coat.

3) Then I raced along a few aisles, and before he could catch up, I stood at the display at the end of one of them (the opposite end from him) looking at chocolates, so he couldn't see me. I looked at those chocolates for a couple of minutes, before racing off in the opposite direction. Soon, I saw the security guy, who was racing about also looking semi-frantic until he saw me, and then he was just calmly watching me again.

4) Then I couldn't think of anything else to do, so I went and paid for my quiche and chocolate. And funnily enough I was undercharged, and told the checkout girl that she'd undercharged me. And I left the shop.

It was very unsatisfying. What should I have done? What do you do when you're suspected of being something you're not?

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you should have gone up to him and introduced yourself as the son of the supermarket owner/manager

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you do when you're suspected of being something you're not?

Give them a quelling look, til they back down in shame.

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

eyeball kicks was it you who took matters into your own hands with regard to a neighbours car alarm?

robin (robin), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That was Eugene Speed.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

i don't know wtf is going on, but for the past several months i have been triggering off those detector things in every store i go into, without fail. alien implant technology can go suck it

dell (del), Friday, 1 April 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

Wait til you find out someone put an RFID tag in one of your coat pockets.

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

oh geez

no, it is weird, though, b/c it seems to occur no matter what i am wearing/not wearing or carrying/not carrying on me. i am stumped as to what is causing this to happen all the time as of late

dell (del), Friday, 1 April 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

you're radioactive

The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Friday, 1 April 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

i dont understand the motivation of the original poster

69, Friday, 1 April 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

as a fantasy i understand it but i wouldn't actually do that.

jed_, Friday, 1 April 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

yeah have actually read it 2x b/c it seems like something worth getting but i can't really deduce much else aside from that this is some weird fantasy of his.

b/c i don't drive, i carry around my back-pack to p much anywhere i go and get TONS of looks regarding it. doesn't help that at times i've actually employed it for those purposes suspicioned.

kelpolaris, Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

ha!

jed_, Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)

I make eye contact with the people standing at the door and say hello — pretty much dispels any suspicion imo.

corey, Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:54 (fourteen years ago)


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