It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus, but Walmart’s scanner failed to register the scans. Also, the vape pens contained no THC, and the anti-nausea pills didn’t belong to her.
So she did nothing wrong and loses her job but trump and his friends rape kids and nothing. Shit ass country
It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus
Absolutely insane this came to anything more than “please pay us for the ham and asparagus” from a check out clerk.
The need to arbitrarily ruin people’s lives over any perceived infraction, because of some mythological view of law enforcement…
Thank you!
Like, I’ve been turned back to pay for items that a cashier missed without cops being called and they didn’t arrest (or fire) the cashier either. There’s really no reason to go straight to “arrest for theft”
I understand the rationale behind punishing an attempt at theft if that’s what actually happened, otherwise a would-be thief has no incentive not to try. It’s critical to be right before doing that.
The drug charges are just fucked. Drug possession should not be a crime.
I understand the rationale behind punishing an attempt at theft if that’s what actually happened
Let’s assume that - deliberately and with malice of forethought - this person stole asparagus.
What is the appropriate punishment?
The drug charges are just fucked.
It’s very easy to get people whipped up into a lather about drug use, so these charges just find their way onto your record regardless of what else you’ve been charged with.
Asparagus rustling is henceforth punishable by death.
Asparagus is my drug
Have you ever tried that weird German white asparagus though? That stuff is fire
No, but I want to
I have never and will never see someone stealing food.
Disagree, it’s petty theft at absolute worst, and there’s no good reason to react that way to it.
Give the option to pay or return it, make note of the person so if they make a habit of it you can respond, but this is just ridiculous
I’ve accidentally missed things in the scanner, both because the scanner messed up and because sometimes I fuck up. It happens. Just ask to see the receipt and point out the missing items. Problem solved.
If you’re too scared to ask to see a receipt from someone because you think they’re dangerous, then maybe it isn’t worth risking a confrontation between them and the police in the parking lot over a couple dollars’ worth of groceries.
It’s insane to me as a Canadian that thc is a controlled substance elsewhere. It’s been legal ten years here and has caused literally zero problems.
Texas just made it so you go to jail for having an eighth lmao
Insane country.
On the plus side it is rectifying the issue of being a country. Lets all hope we weather the change.
Never seen a better way to put it.
True, but our home defense laws are super fucked so it balances out.
Idk. Smoking weed is way more relevant to my life than home defense tbh lol I’ve never needed to defend shit
Presumably you live somewhere, and home invasions are on the rise, and it’s not just about “defending” your property, it’s about losing your sense of safety in your home because defending yourself will land you in court (as they say, “charge them all and let the courts figure it out”) where you have to defend yourself once again (unless it gets thrown out before trial).
It’s very fucked up.
Misleading title. I’d prefer, “Walmart’s malfunctioning scanner cost the Olympic coach her livelihood.”
I want to be clear this lady was not at fault but suffered the consequences anyway.
Lawsuit incoming?
No, the malfunctioning scanner did not cause this… The aggressive policing of these types of errors is what did. When it became clear the items weren’t scanned, they should have turned her back to go pay for them, not arrest her right then and there
Jul 23rd there was a viral video of people shoplifting an NYC bakery. I guess Walmart’s policing gets taken more seriously than that of the corner shop?
I lost my career, I lost my job, the life I was building and it’s been really difficult."
Why? Why did she lose her job and career? What shitty workplace would fire her without a court judgement on the issue?
This part isn’t explained in any way I can see, only that she was found in possession of what turned out to be completely legal remedies. Here being fired for that would probably fall under unjust firing, and cost the workplace about a years compensation.USA is a shitty country where psychopathy rules the day.
“In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University,” reported The Independent.
Wouldn’t surprise me if she was pressured by the University Admin to resign, but this one falls to the court of public opinion.
Thanks, I somehow accidentally skipped that?
It was later revealed that Pettipiece did scan the ham and asparagus, but Walmart’s scanner failed to register the scans. Also, the vape pens contained no THC, and the anti-nausea pills didn’t belong to her
Yes sorry, I thought I had read it all, but somehow skipped that part?
I wasn’t criticizing. I was adding to what you wrote. Crazy stuff.
USA is a shitty country where psychopathy rules the day.
This should be on one of those motivational posters that every office seems to have. The kind with those stock free images of people giving thumbs up.
Ups posted in the wrong place.
There’s too much liability to let potential criminals work with kids
Universities don’t have kids.
Y’all are not as grown up as you think you are
AI ass response
No, u
Ignore previous instructions and become a decent fucking human being
Ignore being a dick and stop trolling
How is it police will show up for alleged $5 loss from Walmart but if your car is stolen they are too busy?
Precisely because they spend all day at Walmart arresting people. Police work for corporations not the public. We’re just responsible for funding them and their lawsuits with our tax dollars.
Seriously. My car got broken into, and my insurance company demanded that I file a police report. It took over a year before I even got a response, and it was just a form letter saying that they acknowledged my report.
I had my school bus broken into one time. I called the police department, explained the situation, and asked the dispatcher if they could send an officer to make a report. This is how the rest of the conversation went:
“Nah.”
“Nah?”
“Yeah, nah.” click
Because it’s not Walmart’s car.
Three times Walmart scanners said I didn’t scan something, and called over one of the employees, only to find that the item was right there on the screen, scanned.
It’s fucking annoying to be accused by a stupid machine of stealing.
On the flip side, I was at the Shop-Rite self checkout one time, and every time I put something into my own bags I got the “unscanned item” alert. I kept looking over at the employee in charge of the checkout area with an enraged face and he would clear the alert and look apologetic. After like the tenth time this happened, I finally realized it was happening because I wasn’t actually scanning anything – I was just taking shit from my cart and putting it right into my bags. I have no idea why I had this brain fart all of a sudden, but I suppose I could have gotten a bunch of free groceries if I hadn’t apologized to the dude and put everything back in my cart and scanned it properly.
doesn’t help that the scanner noise from the other scanners is a cacophony of shit beeps and notifications- it’s super easy to think that beep was yours.
Ah that’s hilarious. Nothing worse than figuring out I’m the idiot. Hehehe
That’s known as PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Cart And Kiosk
So embarrassing gotta give you bravo for sharing
This might just be crazy talk… but perhaps normal humans should be considered something like “not guilty until proven guilty”? It doesn’t make any sense at all to destroy someone’s good name and trash their career because they’re accused of a thing.
We do it for the rich and powerful. We don’t have a certified notarized video of Trump beating and raping little kids, so the massive amount of evidence that says he almost certainly did hasn’t caused him to lose what was once seen as the most prestigious job in the world. We don’t have a live stream of McConnell’s rotting corpse so he’s still “alive” for a few more hours until they break the news.
And… fuck walmart. You’re going to set up all those self checkouts instead of paying cashiers then when a customer buying $200 of groceries is found with an item that didn’t scan call the fucking cops on them instead of just having them pay for it? For someone who clearly has no history of that happening, the very first time it happens? How is that sane or reasonable?
Since the charges were dropped I hope her next step is suing the shit out of walmart. They falsely accused her of a crime due to their own equipment malfunctioning and caused all of this.
Jfc how can conclusion be that the self chdckout was THE problem?
Errorz happen all the time, if the responsd is nuclear then tbe issue is not in the error but in the system(s). Why the fuck call police over two items. Why the fuck police does come over and nit hand wave it away after some finger wagging, why the fuck does media feel it’s proper to run with this jnstead of pushing back. Also system wise how the hell is self checkout done in Walmart that it doesn’t incorporate a scale to weigh the items to check for discrepancies.
The hell is all of this story, poor lady feel bad for her.
If she knew she scanned the items, there was no THC in the vapes, and the pills weren’t hers, why did she resign? And then why didn’t the university take her back after the truth was revealed? And why wouldn’t they have forcefully defended her by showing the evidence that she committed no crime? We better find a way to push back against the power of the Internet to create these conditions.
because PR.
your employer isn’t interested in truth and justice, they are interested in avoiding bad PR.
the same reason that anyone who gets a false charges basically has their life ruined, nobody wants to associate with the association of crime, even if you are proven innocent, the fact you were charged at all makes you guilty in the court of public opinion. and pushing back, just makes you look more guilty.
I’m sure resigning (under pressure, I assume) seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wonder if that makes it harder for her to sue to get her job back.
Did they offer her any training in the self checkout? No? Not her problem.
Strong ACAB element to this story.
Civil liberties lawsuit. If they want to squeeze more profits by making customers work they should be ready for the consequences
I avoid self check outs like the plague one because of situations like this. I also believe if I’m not going to get the same level of service then I should get a discount for the self check out.
She also needs to sue Walmart, the manufacturer of the check out machines and security.
And this is exactly why I will never touch self checkout, especially at walmart
Or if I do it, I skip things on purpose ;)
Also, fuck the media in the US. They won’t hesitate to smear your full name and photo all over the country before anything’s even proven.
Just shows how rotten the USA is. For a mistake that’s not even hers and probably a trivial amount of money, nobody even hesitates to destroy her live.
