$4.99 iPod? College Student Accused In Barcode Switch
Yeah, you’re “sorry” all right, but not in that sense of the word. :rolleyes:
Well, he was only “terribly sorry!!!” and not “terribly sorry!!!111one`”, so I don’t think he’s that repentant.
Oh, and the absolute best part about it?
Only three Pleases? Bah! String him up!
No, the best part is this:
Translation: “I’m not sorry I did it, I’m just sorry I got caught!”
ivylass, I’ve got the rope if you’ve got the tree.
I remember I caught someone doing this ONCE when I worked retail.
A woman went ahead and taped the bar code from a 6-pack of Pepsi to the bottom of her 24-pack of Pepsi.
I was the fastest cashier EVER (except for Mark, but not only did he look like Luke Skywalker, he was also a cokehead, so he was disqualified as far as I was concerned), but I still caught it.
Take that, biatch.
-Joe
“I’m really sorry. It was wrong of me to have murdered so many people in so short a time, and I promise never to do it again.”
–Eric Idle
You think the idiot’s lawyer’s first piece of advice is going to be “Shut The Fuck Up”?
That should double his sentence, right there.
My 17 year-old told me last night that he wasn’t a kid anymore. I chuckled.
But, I’m sooooooo confused. :rolleyes:
I’m sorry I caused all that cancer.
Funny what you find out in dress rehearsal, isn’t it? I understand, though - you were on a roll.
What a moron. An electircal engineering student didn’t know better?
I think his punishment should involve being given an iPod full of Slim Whitman songs played at the wrong speed and be forced to listen to it 16 hours a day for the rest of the year.
What’s the matter with playing them at the right speed? And do you really think four weeks is enough?
Mmmm…tough guy, eh?
How about doing that AND having to stand in front of the store (on one foot) and wearing only white jockey underwear and having the fake bar code tattooed on his chest.
That there is definitely the best part.
Of course, I wouldn’t have thought that this would be a felony either. The felony is “forgery” - would it have been a forgery if he’d just somehow pried a barcode off another product? Also, the misdemeanor charges of “theft” - is it theft if you get caught in the act? Or an attempted theft?
Maybe I’m splitting too many hairs. Still, I’m happy if it interfere’s with this guy’s getting an electrical engineering job since he’s clearly too dumb for that.
Also, what cashier is really going to say: “4.99 for an iPod? Seems fair.” It’s not like he was buying something inconspicuous, like soft drinks.
Many EE students have a very slim grasp of reality.
Note:Bubbadog is an EE and lived among EE students at a time in his life.
Maybe he was hoping to bluff his way through with the “That’s what the sticker price says, you have to sell it for that – it’s the law!” tack.
…but more likely he suffers from the common blindness that prevents people from intuiting how a given scenario might appear to someone who’s not as astonishingly stupid as themselves.
Really? Should I go recheck the wiring in my building? 