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guy321651
Mar 2, 2011, 10:38 PM
All right,

So I used to work at Target a while back. I probably wasn't the best employee because I was always goofing off with friends and after the holiday season in 2009 they kind of phased me out of the schedule to the point where I found a job somewhere else.

I'm going to school and have a couple friends who do security for Kohls which is what gave me the idea to in fact "be stupid."

Last fall myself and a couple of friends went into the Target store where I used to work and pretended to shoplift. I wanted to see if I could get the undercover's attention. My friends who worked security at Kohls told me that as long as I didn't leave the store with anything or damage anything than it wouldn't be a big deal.

Well I just got a Notice to Appear in the mail saying that I had been seen stuffing golf balls into my pocket last fall and now I have to go to court!!

I remember putting golf balls and a couple other random things in my pocket but I took them out of my pocket before getting near the front of the store. I never saw anyone following me which is why I got bored and left but if they were following me or watching me on camera why didn't they stop me when I left if they thought I still had something?

I've never heard of anything like this before... does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions or ideas about how to deal with this? By thoughts I mean... other than it was a really stupid thing to do because I know that now but I never left the store with anything so how can I accused of shoplifting 6 months later?!

tickle
Mar 3, 2011, 06:15 AM
How do you prove you didn't leave the store with goods ? They obviously thought you did. You will have to appear, you have been ordered to. You will have to sort it out at that time.

Tick

guy321651
Mar 3, 2011, 06:48 AM
Well yes I know I have to appear and I plan to sort it out... But it's not my responsibility to prove I didn't... They have to prove their case.

I pulled the stuff out and it should have been obvious that I did. The notice that I got said a store security officer was making the complaint, if she thought I had something she should have stopped me when I left.

I know a little bit about probable cause and I'm sure they have that but there is no proof I actually left the store with merchandise...