I can't believe I forgot to rant about this before!!! On Xmas Eve I decided to buy myself one of those expensive new Philips Sonicare electric toothbrushes. I went into Boots, found one, went to the Advantage point thing & printed off my voucher for 1000 extra points & noticed the store detective was right behind me. I had a few other bits to get & noticed him following me right around the store. I should point out now that I don't dress too scruffy or anything, but I do have pink, red, blue, green, yellow, purple & orange coloured hair right now (I was bored & decided to use up all the little bits of dye I had in pots in my bathroom). Whenever I turned to look at him he, looked away & pretended he wasn't looking at me. I was a bit fed up so I got in the queue. He stood right next to me the whole time I queued. Then I got to the checkout & he rushed over & whispered in the woman's ear (don't deactivate the tag).... Off he goes to the exit & so I walk up to the doors, stop & hold the bag out in front of me knowing full well the alarm will go off. I get searched, he finds nothing. "You can go" is all I get. No apology, nothing!!! I'm pretty outraged at that & Boots & their Security firm are going to get a number of nasty letters about it. I wonder how many old ladies have been stuffing things in their handbags & claiming dementia when they get caught while he's off following "dodgy" looking people like me..... Apologies for the long rant! On the bright side the toothbrush is ace!
Yeah, I know what you mean and sypmathize with you. I've had it done to me loads before in the past and even still now, it's really f-ing annoying. Just go back on a really busy day and rip the hell out of them as payback
You could say to the detective "hey, learn how to shadow!" or something This reminds me of a situation my mom was in a year ago. She went to the local supermarket, and payed with a big note (erm...something like 80 pounds or something), when she got back home, she noticed they returned 30 pounds short. So she went back and complained, but the manager said they couldn't do a thing and that there was already not enough money in the erm...thing they put the money in. So she came back home very angry, and she wrote a couple of angry lettres to the supermarket (hehehe). Anyway, they wouldn't want to return her the money, until after a few months the manager was kicked out and a new manager was hired. He immediatly wrote a lettre back to my mom, including his apologies and gift coupons with a value of 40 pounds
yeah i always get followed around by the JJB sports detective in town. i go in my college clothes (what i normally wear around the house type clothes), which is normally my dads old huge football coat jeans and a jumper, my hair is kinda messy and long and flowing and i just walk around lookin for clothes which they never have any decent clothing and he follows me. if you get arrested for doing nothing you can sue for false arrest.
We call it the till, relix And the new manager very much being a -> That sucks tho Hex, and Jaz. You should confront them and set 'em straight.
I would turn around and start talking to him, make him feel VERY uncomfortable. Or just turn around, show him a product like underwear and ask what he thinks of them.
Something a friend of mine used to do (after getting hassle from store detectives) when I was at school was to go in every day and buy *nothing*.. ever. But go in, walk up and down *every* aisle, making sure the detective was having to follow him. If you have nothing better to do, spend some time in there inspecting items, putting them back. It'll take some effort on your part but he'll soon get fed up when he realises you're taking the piss.
I get followed all the time in HMV but I do what Kna says and start wandering around randomly, going in circles One time when it was quiet one of the guys followed me quite closely, I turned around and said 'I'm not gonna nick anything you know' and he just walked off
God I hate those detectives that think they are being 'slick and un-noticeable' while they are following you around the store. I had problems like that in a Wal-Mart here and they followed me around EVERY time I went into the store for several weeks. I finally had my parents go with me as witnesses and they left me alone after I threatened to sue for harassment. They would do things like 'forget' to disable the alarm tags and then they make you go in a back room so they can search you. Once I mentioned a suit though, they convientently 'forgot' who I was.
i always turn around, strike up a conversation and get merry with them.... you know brining attention to the fact that they are store security and all.... asking them about their pay rate, what sort of cool toys they get to carry if any... and if i can work there too.... normally by the time i ask if they give dental insurance they're running for it..
cd, that is cold and completely calloused....what you need to do know is when their running away is go "Oink oink..oh wait, you're not a real cop!"
Obviously the guy was part of the fashion Police. But, you paid for it right? Then just show him the reciept followed by a kick to the shins.
whats wrong? too short to be a policeman! thats what i used to say to the store security at the asda i used to work as, by god they were thick as pig ****!
I have the same problem in B&Q. This store detective, about half my size, follows me around every time I go into the store in Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne. He doesn't even try to hide the fact he's following me and it's really annoying. My tactic is just to do a few laps of the store just to piss him off. I suppose he's only doing his job, but I don't like being though of as a criminal when I'm anything but. I don't dress like a "townie", I'm normally wearing jeans, t-shirt and a leather jacket which is IMO perfectly respectable for going shopping. I think the discrimination is just due to my age. It's sad that the minority can spoil it for the majority in this way.
1 2 3 PICTURES that sucks, the security gurard at the birstall currys was sjut as bad & still never caught anything, i asked him what he looked for once & he said someone liek me now when i turn up for work ihave jeans on that are wet & muddy, old fleece & jumper on (to protect my decent stuff when im on the scooter) but then agian i stumped him by saing my fater comes into stores liek this with his gut stucking though his shurt, the shirt is his house paintiong one & scruffy jeans but still pays a small fortune every time he comes in the picture of our security guards face was priceless
I walked around a hardware store in a large jacket (it was cold and raining) and there was not a moment that I wasn't watched. They looked away and all but I could tell. When I left they asked "can I help you" three or four times. (Thats code for "are you a thief") so I acted sneaky and left.
i usually scream 'WHAT UP, RENTACOP?!' at them, or act suspicious then peg it out the store, being chased by 2 or 3 of them then when they catch up, let them look through my pockets n stuff and say to them 'well i just misse dmy bus - it's 2 hours until the next one...i assume you shall be paying my taxi fare home...? or stand behind them and breathe into their ears and whisper things like 'him...int he blue shirt...he's stealing DVDs' for the record i'm usually dressed in jeans or cords of a 'comfortable' level of baggyness, a brightly coloured shirt and either a grey fluffy coat, a long black wool coat or a brown n black snowboarding jacket *n
I went town yesterday, went to the AV section of WHSmiths... I had 3 propper dressed members of staff ask if I want help... then 2 store detectives and I decided to annoy them so i walked fast through lots pf people to see if they would follow... surprise surprise they did... so I just turned around and said to him "Look would you at least wait till I nick the stuff first" my other favorite is... "Do you mind... I'm trying to steal stuff here?" after that I went to waterstones... sat in the big red comfy chair with a pile of PHP and mySQL books next to me for an hour... obviously no bother from the staff... then I went back to smiths... fingered everything on the shelves... put something back but reached inside my coat then zipped it up and looked around... ... I have NEVER seen heads turn away that fast... so I went around a bit more went up the stairs in a large crowd of people... said "oh frig... forgot to get *mumble* thing"... vaulted over the rails and went down the other side... which left the rentacop going up the slowly moving thing... did a couple of laps... got a cd... paid for it... saw the renta whisper in the other assistants ear who whispered to the one who was taking ages getting my cd... she came back and didn't deactivate the tag... i told her she should have and she did it... walked past the renta said.. better luck next time.. and legged it off... didn't get followed but fun none the less.... and i could have been sure i had someone following me in maplins... should have said something but i had enough legit stuff on me that it would be too much off a faff to do anything... got meself a blue cold cathode though and was wearing my "how many pockets" trousers which have more pockets than... anything... a really big ol' coat... messed up brown hair(needs cuttng but hey) chains, black nail varnish, old gray hoody... thing is they expect you NOT no notice them... they are more apparent than a greb or a goth in GAP! lorquis. out.
