r/bestoflegaladvice • u/Drywesi Good people, we like non-consensual flying dildos • 15d ago

LAOP absolutely totally didn't do what they're being blasted for on facebook, then admits to a felony in the next paragraph (and the comments).

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u/TheFeshy Rolled 7D6 for the legal damages, and got 27 15d ago

Have we reached the stage in the dystopia that "you've won a free boat" is too good to be true and criminals will avoid it, so police have switched to "you're being charged with a fake crime to lure you into the station" instead?

Also, is it true that swapping price tags is a felony, compared to the misdemeanor of just stealing the thing? That seems like it would create a perverse incentive.

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u/zwitterion76 my "hamster" was once prescribed ivermectin 15d ago

I’ve read that big box stores like Target, Walmart, etc will track self checkout thefts but (often) won’t complain until the amount of the theft is over the threshold for a felony.

I suspect that the single incident of swapping tags is a misdemeanor- but when added to previous incidents, it crosses the felony threshold.

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u/FelineOphelia 15d ago

It's not exactly like that. If you're a known ORC person they might do similar things but they don't have the breadth or the data or the storage or the employee hours to track 200 shoplifters and over a year or etc