Today, while shopping, I was grabbed and dragged off to a security room with no warning. Apparently, the way I was dressed and walking was suspicious. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I realized the dress I bought yesterday still had the security tag on. I returned to the store to get it removed, only to realize I'd lost my receipt. The lady at the counter thought I stole it, called security, and had me escorted out, dress-less. FML
Today, after getting home from shopping, I noticed a security tag was still on one of the shirts I bought. I decided to take it back and ask them to remove the tag. They then accused me of trying to steal (even after I showed them the receipt) and kicked me out of the store. FML
Today, I was shopping at a store from which I had previously bought a shirt. The clerk accused me of trying to steal my own shirt and called security. They examined it and argued with me for so long I was late to work. FML
Today, I was trying on some clothes in the store's changing room, when someone reached under the door and grabbed my purse, shoes, and pants. FML
Today, I was shopping with my husband. At the self-checkout, one of the items I was buying for him as a gift didn’t register. As we were walking out, I get stopped and escorted to the loss prevention office, where I was accused of stealing. FML
Today, while bagging my groceries at a store, a lady came over to me, took a good look at the food I'd bought, picked out an item and put it in her bag. When I confronted her, she called security on me and told them I wanted to steal her stuff. I got thrown out and she walked away with a smirk. FML
Today, I went to the store to buy a phone I saw last week. I looked around a little first, then continued to the electronics section. I couldn't find the phone I saw, so I went to leave. Halfway to the exit, I was detained by security and grilled for ages over my "suspicious behaviour". FML
Today, as I walked into the bank, I tripped and bumped into a security guard. He thought I was assaulting him, so he pinned me to the floor and called for backup as he held me at gunpoint. FML
Today, I was kicked out of the mall along with a bunch of my friends, sworn at by the security guards, and personally escorted all the way to the sidewalk, only to find out we'd been mistaken for another group of people. FML
Today, I was accused of shoplifting, after the alarm started beeping as I walked into the store. FML
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danab_fml 0
sue!
Mokiikom_fml 8
To all the people saying they had probable cause etc. and that OP couldn't do anything: Are you so used to living in a police state deprived of all freedoms that you have completely forgotten even the most basic rules of logic and life, not only in a free land but even in nanny-state-land??? There is NO probable cause whatsoever, he said he was grabbed in the store and dragged to a security room. Private security has NO right to drag anyone anywhere, that is called assault and illegal detention. The POLICE are the only ones who have the right to invoke probable cause to do anything, and even then, they have to have some seriously good proof, otherwise it will be a complaint to their PD and even a pro-bono lawyer will get you out of the issue very easily. Cops get in trouble all the time when they search people without consent or detain people without proper probable cause. Private security has NO jurisdiction, all they can legally do is ask you to go with them to the room etc. They will try to intimidate you and make it sound like they have a right to, but you are perfectly legally allowed to just ignore them talking to you and walk right out of the store. They can NOT do anything to you, it will be assault the very instant they touch you. America, even Kalifornia, have a thing called the Constitution, in which another nifty thing, the 4th amendment, prevents abuse of authority and illegal searches, so that people won't abuse their power just because they're a cop. In the case of private security it's even more direct, they have no right to detain you whatsoever. They can search you if you consented to it for the sake of getting into a stadium or other such thing, but they can't prevent you from leaving a place or drag you anywhere on the excuse they dislike your clothes or whatever.
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Lisa89 3
I'm imagining OP naked except for a Tench coat, socks with sandals on, sunglasses, a ladies hat with a camera around his neck.... I think that would be a time it's fair to take him away right? Other than that, I'm not really thinking of another example where this would be warranted unless he was wearing a huge puffer jacket saying 'I am da bomb' or 'Bitches don't know about my huge weapon.' -This comment is participially sarcastic if you had't of realised.
adidjo 0
you look vaguely Atabic, don't you?
adidjo 0
You look vaguely Arabic, don't you? or Pakistani?
adidjo 0
You look vaguely Arabic, don't you? or Pakistani?
kmw41990 3
I call bullish*t.
notquite69 0
I imagine you're one of those thug wannabes that looks like a douche with your pants hanging off your ass.
xdust 4
stupid room temperature security. When you acutely steal something they never get you but they bust you for walking funny or in my case wearing glasses.
gammielikeoh 0
time for a new wardrobe.
lifestillfdhard 0
The OP should have called the real police and pressed battery charges. Mall security is such a joke. Once when I was smoking outside the mall one tried to ask me for ID (I was overage and I had ID on me, I just didn't feel like it cause they have no authority) so I replied with "can I see your badge?" :)
iwadasn 33
They have the authority to kick you off of mall property.
bmanholmes 3
be like weird al and sue sue sue