What would you do?

[Jemisa]

I was shopping in Waitrose this morning and I noticed a woman shoplifting, I witnessed her put a tin of salmon and a tin of crab into her bag & zip it up. I didn't know what to do, my husband said ignor it. She was an elderly lady & looked a bit shabby & I thought aww! perhaps she's really poor and can't afford these things.
Soo I did nothing, What would you have done?

jem.

[Jemisa]

suezy24, I only saw her take the tins, I don't know what she did in the other aisles, the bread & milk could be a cover. Perhaps she gets all her shopping this way by visiting other supermarkets. My hubby reckons she was a younger woman dressed up to look old. Sometimes they use young children as a cover because the police can't prosecute children under 9 (I think)

[Bbbananas]

Can't they? Wow - I have an 8 year old niece - must get her trained up PDQ.

[supersuezy24]

I used to work in a large department store and the things people used to rob was crazy, I rememeber one day been asked to find prices for items this elderly woman has robbed, she was caught outside the shop.Tights which were in sale and sooo cheap and a nail brush!!! What the fudge like??!!

[redman41]

Nothing surprises me supersuezy, I think if you can get away with it customers will try anything.....

[supersuezy24]

It's scary at times though because a lot of the shoplifters which were caught would have weapons on them, knives, screwdrivers...

[bigfoot3000]

Yes suezy chefs and tradesmen are the worst culprits!

[supersuezy24]

Lol :)
What about the axe wielding psycho itinerants???

[Jemisa]

The age of criminal responcibility is 10 so a 9 year old could not be prosecuted.

This is the answer I recieved when I posted the Q in 'LAW'

I think too there are several groups of "Fagin Kids" out there that know v/well about the under 10s.

[mollykins]

She probably bought the much cheaper bread and milk as a ploy, it's less suspicious if you pay for a couple of things.

[Bobbisox]

I worked in a supermarket which was next to our local Catholic Church, it was Good Friday, Church came out, then someone noticed the empty box in one of the freezers...lol
someone had nicked the cod in batter...and left the box behind, to have the fish for GF...ha-ha, I saw the funny side to it x

[ttfn]

Didn't they taken any frozen rolls to go with it Bobbi - might have had a largish family to feed - say 5,000?

[Bobbisox]

maybe, they had a large bread basket over their arm,,,so....
LOL

[DEN53]

Evening Jem - I would have ignored it aswell - when I was working as a secretary to a solicitor who dealt with criminal law, the amount of elderly shoplifters was quite an eye opener.

When my Mum started going down the dementia road, she would regularly come home from shopping with pairs of earrings from Sainsburys. She even took a pair back once, because they were the wrong colour. Bless....!

[Jemisa]

Hello Den, Hmmm! I wonder what I could get away with? I suppose 20yr olds would call me an old woman, after all I am a G/mother!!!

jem