Tesco Shoplifting - need help.

The-Truth

whiteswan wrote: »

Initially it was out of frustration and hopefully to get some advice - having never been in a situation like this before.

If you weren't charged with theft you don't need advice. Unless you were hoping you could find a way to get back into that Tesco but seriously that is never going to happen no matter what people post on here.

Just put it down to a lesson learnt and try to work out how to avoid this happening again even if it is an unfortunate condition you suffer from.

p00hsticks

whiteswan wrote: »

In an ideal world I would agree........but I felt unwell, light headed and had a very serious concern of passing out and collapsing (yes I've done it a few times before and its very very embarassing) - so my only thought was to get some food to hopefully prevent this.

Like I said - I don't live in a "perfect world" - I had to immediately make a judgement call.

Dave

Then I think your best course of action would have been to put the magazines down some where in the store before making your way to the cafe area - just leaving them on a shelf somewhere. You could always have picked them up again to pay for them when feeling better.

I hope you didn't start to read them in the cafe...

Azari

JReacher1 wrote: »

I see you're back to your old tricks of selectively taking quotes I make for the purpose of trolling....

You've deleted the legally accurate part to allow you to start a straw man argument and be personally abusive.

This is factually wrong.

I quoted the exact statement with which I disagreed. It stood alone as a statement without any need for extra context.

It is also not abusive to state that some viewpoint is stupid, particularly if you explain exactly why you believe it's stupid.

And on the subject of 'old tricks' I hope everyone reading
this will note that you made no attempt whatsoever to say anything substantive about the matter at hand, but just started making wildly inaccurate statements about the nature of the argument itself.

Stevie_Palimo

whiteswan wrote: »

Initially it was out of frustration and hopefully to get some advice - having never been in a situation like this before.

That is what forums are for isn't it ?

It helps to see "both" sides of a situation rather than just mine - it helps me come to an informed ecision.

What makes you think I haven't or will not be taking professional advice on this matter ?

Dave

Good luck with that as it will be money down the drain, Simple thing here really accept what you have done is wrong and just move on.


As for how you dress when being accused but actually attempting to thieve items this is utter tosh as it is not just the poor chav's who steal items you know, Richard Madeley stole wine whilst in a suit.

hollydays

JReacher1 wrote: »

So when this happened there was no person of authority from tesco in the room? It was just you, the police officer and the contract guard?

Give it up.
We were talking about the step before that.
It's called " relating the facts"
It didn't happen.
Because if it had happened it's highly likely the police would never have been called and the op would either have been released or banned and released .

hollydays

JReacher1 wrote: »

So when this happened there was no person of authority from tesco in the room? It was just you, the police officer and the contract guard?

At this point , no manager had authorised the police to be called based on the facts , and by now the police were the " person in authority" .

hollydays

Hearsay of what might have happened is not a good reason to call the police as far as tesco are concerned.

JReacher1

hollydays wrote: »

Hearsay of what might have happened is not a good reason to call the police as far as tesco are concerned.

Another statement with no factual proof to it :-)

It wasn't hearsay. The fact the OP walked out of a store with goods he hadn't paid for is something we all agreed happened.

That is enough to justify phoning the police to ask them to investigate.

hollydays

JReacher1 wrote: »

Another statement with no factual proof to it :-)

It wasn't hearsay. The fact the OP walked out of a store with goods he hadn't paid for is something we all agreed happened.

That is enough to justify phoning the police to ask them to investigate.

But it's not tesco policy, so it's not enough to to justify by their own policy.
It's not good practice.
If the guard himself made the call it's not hearsay.
But he doesn't have his employers authority to do that until he's related the facts to a manager in the presence of the op.

JReacher1

Azari wrote: »

This is factually wrong.

I quoted the exact statement with which I disagreed. It stood alone as a statement without any need for extra context.

It is also not abusive to state that some viewpoint is stupid, particularly if you explain exactly why you believe it's stupid.

And on the subject of 'old tricks' I hope everyone reading
this will note that you made no attempt whatsoever to say anything substantive about the matter at hand, but just started making wildly inaccurate statements about the nature of the argument itself.

Calling some a "child", "animal stupid" and an "utter buffoon" are all abusive.

Really you should try and adopt a better posting style. It's getting a bit tiresome how you try and turn threads into trading of insults. I should really put you on ignore but every now and again you do post something genuinely useful!