Should have invested in the turbo...

Or stayed in the hospital.

A man in Pennsylvania that had just been released from the hospital should have just stayed where it was safe. He either has the worst luck I can think of or, um, possibly he was hit in the head...

Let me fill you in and you tell me what you think.

He was in the hospital because he got into a domestic dispute and was hit with a frying pan and a table leg....ouch.

He went to Wal-Mart to get his prescriptions filled but didn't have the money for them so he called an ex-girlfriend who agreed to pay for them....ok, that was nice.

He didn't bother to change out of his hospital gown and went to Wal-Mart wearing the thing....do you feel a draft?

He decided he wanted the $50 worse than the medicine and snatched it out of the ex-girlfriends hand....hello? She was willing to pay $50 for your medicine, don't you think she would have loaned you a few bucks?

He decided the fastest way to escape was riding one of those Wal-Mart motorized shopping carts....yeah. Have you seen those things in action? I think their top speed is 5 mph. I chose to go through the store on crutches once (even though I was offered one of those carts) because it was faster.

Now he's in jail...

And doesn't have a lawyer....Way to go dude. I hope the few minutes you had the $50 in your hand was worth it.

To catch a thief... in aisle 3?

You just finished shopping at your local Walmart. Your items are on the conveyor belt heading toward the cashier. Seven pairs of jeans, four pair of slacks, a pair of scrubs, a bra, a sweat suit, a picture frame, laundry detergent, diapers, pizza, coffee, four 12-packs of drinks, canned vegies, air freshener, nachos, noodles, some frozen stuff, chips, ground beef, and a baby crib…total? $5.25. What?!

Yep. A 20 year old Natchez Mississippi Walmart employee was arrested for attempting to sell her friend $547.50 worth of merchandise for five bucks. The story in the Mississippi newspaper doesn’t say HOW they were busted for rolling back prices on their own, just that the 22 year old woman never left the store with the products.

What were they thinking? Oh wait, I know, they were thinking they could get away with it. I bet that kind of thing happens all the time but no one notices. With all the beeping going on from other registers around them I imagine it’d be easy to do. And unless you are involved in security for the store, you more than likely wouldn’t be watching the screen to see what was being rung up. Plus those people that stand at the exit doors and check peoples receipts only do that if something is out of a bag. That’d be easy to prevent too.

I’m not trying to encourage people to steal by explaining how easy it would be. I’m actually very disgusted by these people that think it’s ok to steal. They try to argue that it’s a big store (Walmart) so they can afford the loss but I believe even if they could afford the loss, we’re the ones that pay for it in increased prices so they didn‘t hurt that big store. They hurt me.

Everyone I know has worked hard their whole lives and paid for everything they own. I have no patience for people that won’t earn their own keep. And even less patience for those that want to take out of my pocket.

So needless to say, I’m happy these women were caught and arrested. I hope they at least get a hefty fine. And as far as the cashier goes, I hope it’s noted on her work record so that she doesn’t get the opportunity to raise prices in another store that I shop at.