A man was charged with petty theft after being caught on a surveillance camera taking jelly beans out of a bin and eating them before he got to the cash register.The 34-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was buying groceries at Albertson's when he stopped at a bin of candy and put an unspecified number of jelly beans in his mouth, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office report.
The store manager on duty told the deputy that he wanted charges brought against the suspect, who was also issued a trespass warning.
The jelly beans were priced at $6.99 a pound. The deputy estimated that the 10 jellybeans would have had a value of about $2.
A store manager contacted Thursday confirmed that the store has a "zero tolerance" policy against shoplifting.
Our tax dollars at work... Don't you just love it?
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October 26th, 2007 3:29 PM
I am curious to know what happens with this! If the judge doesn't throw out this stupid shit then he must be disbarred STAT! I totally agree, what a waste of tax payer money!
October 27th, 2007 8:04 PM
Actually, the guy arrested will have to pay all court costs if found guilty and the judge should not throw it out. Can you imagine what it would cost us if 100+ people a day per store nationwide got a handful of free candy, or other produce, thinking it was no big deal? Stores do not loose the money to shoplifters, the tax payers do, when their loss is added onto everything else we purchase.
November 4th, 2007 1:41 PM
I agree he should have gotten in trouble. However, I think the store's stand should have been to ask the man to pay for the merchandise consumed. I also think the deputy should go back to school. How did he figure 10 or so jelly beans would weigh in at about 1/3 lb? At $6.99/lb, he estimated the few the comsumer ate were about $2.00 worth?! LOL