Pregnant mom says sandwich arrest was 'horrifying'

[Gus McCrae]

Stop breaking the law a$$hole!!!!!!!



Seriously though.... they paid for $50 worth of groceries. It really does sound like it was a mistake.

 

[Takuan]

Sounds to me like the death of good, common sense has now reached halfway across the Pacific.

 

[Sin-ster]

I have been known to walk 20 feet and get a chocolate milk to go with my meal. I pay for it when I get up front.

That's pretty funny. I was about to say that I've snagged a chocolate milk from the dairy section at Rouse's several times and drank it while shopping. But only with the Ex, as she would invariably take 30 minutes to pick up what I could have managed in 5. By myself, it's "get in, get out".

 

[Guate_shooter]

Sounds like an EX manager for that store and a fired security guard, Law Suit waiting to happen

And I guarantee I would al least spend a weekend in jail if you take my kid away,

I have also found my kid once who "forgot" he had candy in his pocket and I made him get back in the store and pay for it and I took him myself to the PD to get a lecture (while on lunch break) of why what he did was wrong and the consequences, needless to say I seriously doubt he will EVER try that one again.

But $5 worth of sandwiches, after making a $50 purchase at the store and offering to pay for the sandwiches is a diferent story

 

[Russo]

breaking the law is breaking the law, regardless if you're thirty weeks pregnant or in the Air Force... i would agree though, that the broad consequence of the breaking the law was taken to the max, which could have been handled more professional and less proceedural...

 

[ta2d_cop]

breaking the law is breaking the law, regardless if you're thirty weeks pregnant or in the Air Force... i would agree though, that the broad consequence of the breaking the law was taken to the max, which could have been handled more professional and less proceedural...

I think they were subject to "enforcement overkill" was because they were non-native and/or military.

As a former servicemember that lived in Hawaii for several years, the native people of Hawaii do not like the service members or the transplants very much. I was married to a girl thay was born and raised in Hawaii and was routinly advised to watch myself when we went to certin sections of the island of Oahu that were for "Islanders", not tourists or military. We lived in Kailua and had horses in Maunawilli. I was strongly advised by my father-in-law not to go to the farm by myself or into Waimanalo to get feed or to the hardware store, because "they don't like Howlies". I was regularly looked at sideways by native Hawaiians, even those that were friends of my ex-wife's and her family.

HPD at the time was almost exclusivly comprised of native Hawaiians and multi-generation residents. There were little to no veterans that had been stationed on the island employed by the PD. When I was looking to get out of the military and go to work at the HPD I was basicly told in not so many words I wasn't welcome because I was not a native to the island. The fact that I had married a "Island Girl" made it worse, not better.

That being said, breaking the law is breaking the law, but I would bet a dollar to a doughnut a native islander would not have been subject to the extreame that this couple was.

 

[I_FLY_LOW]

Stop breaking the law a$$hole!!!!!!!



Seriously though.... they paid for $50 worth of groceries. It really does sound like it was a mistake.

LMAO
One of my faves...

 

[LongGoneDays]

^^^

Very sound legal advice. For some reason I haven't seen that one.

 

[Ironman26]

Security gaurd HAHAHA...........more like STSF Mall cop....... Special Tactical Security Forces !!!!

 

[Takuan]

breaking the law is breaking the law, regardless if you're thirty weeks pregnant or in the Air Force... i would agree though, that the broad consequence of the breaking the law was taken to the max, which could have been handled more professional and less proceedural...

That has more than a whiff of "I was just following orders" about it.

 

[LongGoneDays]

The charges have been dropped.

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-safeway-drops-sandwich-theft-charges-022842086.html

Damn it. I was hoping to see them on a future episode of Dog The Bounty Hunter for missing court.

 

[leVieux]

Way back in the old days, when we were soooo poor; one "outing" was to go shopping @ the big Schwegman's on Airline Hwy. They had Pabst Blue Ribbon for .89/6pack. Put a pack in the cart, drink 2 or 3 while shopping, then pay at checkout. The cashiers would see the empties and knew what to do.

I was far from the only one doing this, too !

One of the joys of youth & poverty !

leVieux

 

[CEHollier]

I wonder if the fetus will be born with a record? After all it was nourished by the sandwich too and so considered an accomplice. No. I'm not serious.

 

[I_FLY_LOW]

Aw crap.. so no hands are getting lopped off?