Paranoid walking out of shops?

CyberJuice · 13-10-2011 08:39PM #1

Wondering if anyone else feels the same as me..

Ive never been a shoplifter but anytime im in town or a shop with the alarms at the entrance im always mad paranoid when im exiting the store,i think the alarm will go off and security will come running out and grab me..

I know that i have not robbed anything but still i think the alarm might go off and id be very embaressed about being taken back into the shop and searched

Sometimes i think what if something has fell into my pocket and i havent noticed it,or what if somebody has thought its funny to slip a small item into my hood or my pocket or bag or something and then when i walk out the alarms ring

I cant be the only one with this problem can i? i hope not

Where To · 13-10-2011 08:40PM

Walk out backwards and you will be OK

whirlpool · 13-10-2011 08:45PM

Haha. I've definitely felt like that sometimes. But if someone has slipped something into your pocket without you knowing, they'll see it on CCTV.

And I wouldn't be embarrassed if the alarm went off. Those things are always going off for absolutely no reason.

Wetai · 13-10-2011 08:46PM

It's especially awkward if you're going into a shop while someone's leaving and it goes off, sorta seems like it's you. Or when you've payed for something and they don't take the thing off, and it beeps.

A Meteor shop in Dublin has their phones (tethered) right beside the door (w/ alarms), so when I was looking at one, and pulled it out a bit to have some give on the cord, the alarm started beeping

. Kinda silly.

bullets · 13-10-2011 08:46PM

Bought 200 Rounds for my rifle when in town last and became a little
paranoid when walking into one of the shops going about my shopping
thinking somehow I might set off the alarm.

The local shopping center the strips on some Boots products still activate
the alarm system in HMV and Tesco despite the staff in boots disabling them.

~B

Chuck Stone · 13-10-2011 08:46PM

I feel guilty when I come to a police check point in the car even though I'm stone cold sober and have my tax, insurance and NTC all up-to-date.

13-10-2011 08:48PM

I've had the alarms go off a couple times from items that weren't untagged properly in other shops or whatever. It was all handled fairly well so I don't mind if it happens again.

Eathrin · 13-10-2011 08:50PM

For some odd reason the alarm always goes off when my friend leaves a shop, not that he's robbed anything or something like that.
So one day as we're leaving a shop he says to the guard "Look, I haven't taken anything, but that alarm is going to go off now as I leave". It didn't. Embarrassing for him.

Gran Hermano · 13-10-2011 08:50PM

Unusual problem OP, have you tried taking something for it?

Oranage2 · 13-10-2011 08:50PM

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.

My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

El Guapo! · 13-10-2011 08:50PM

Its worse when you go into a shop, walk around for a few minutes and don't buy anything.
Anytime I do that I always feel like I'll be stopped and searched at the door. I always try to look "not like a thief" when I leave, but I bet I look even more dodgy since I'm concentrating on it.

Coriolanus · 13-10-2011 08:52PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.

My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

You do know they're entitled to detain you right?

CyberJuice · 13-10-2011 08:53PM

Dean09 wrote: »

Its worse when you go into a shop, walk around for a few minutes and don't buy anything.
Anytime I do that I always feel like I'll be stopped and searched at the door. I always try to look "not like a thief" when I leave, but I bet I look even more dodgy since I'm concentrating on it.

yeah i dont feel so bad if ive bought an item,usually im not very paranoid but if i walk around and pick stuff up and put it back down and i dont buy anything then im just crazy paranoid walking out..

the feeling is worse if i walk into a store with a bag from some other store i just bought something from and then i dont buy anything there

TonyStark · 13-10-2011 08:54PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Just stop for a second then keep walking - If a security lad asks you to stop just tell him no and carry on.

My time is too valuable to give to one of these suited monkeys.

Legally they can't detain you?

Sticky_Fingers · 13-10-2011 08:56PM

From what I've seen those things are pretty pointless considering the reaction of most store employees. Anytime I've seen these things go off the staff just seems to look over and cancel the alarm after a few seconds. I don't think they'd bat an eye unless they saw you trying to drag an entire shelf out the front door after you.

4leto · 13-10-2011 08:58PM

Ohh those alarms Nah I regard them as a starting gun and leggit.

It actually happened to be coming out of Tesco, I just stopped and went back to the cashier who didn't remove a tag.

Its absolutely no big deal, the security guard just looked towards me he didn't even get out of his seat.

aujopimur · 13-10-2011 09:05PM

Shop naked, problem solved

df1985 · 13-10-2011 09:07PM

im the same, ill have seen them take the tag off, i ahve my receipt but im always expecting them to go off.

That or some little brat has dropped something into my other shopping bags.(easily done if they wanted)

Another one: I might have had 4-5 pints, nowhere near drunk. bouncer asks me something and i mumble my words making me looked pissed.
10 pints, swing up to the pub like i own the place and straight in the door!

Son Of A Vidic · 13-10-2011 09:09PM

bullets wrote: »

Bought 200 Rounds for my rifle when in town

I hope you're not dating/with anyone who works in a Hair Salon?

Professey Chin · 13-10-2011 09:14PM

I always wave my to the alarm 1st just in case. Always paranoid about it :pac:

Oranage2 · 13-10-2011 09:42PM

TonyStark wrote: »

Legally they can't detain you?

Well they can but they'd be making a citizens arrest and thats a whole new ball game - its not worth it for them if they dont have CCTV of it also tell you have aids.

Also never go to the back rooms and stay in the open as ive heard stories of security placing items on people they dragged to the back stores.

If you've done nothing wrong then keep walking, if you did do something wrong then run!

Kingpin187 · 14-10-2011 01:17AM

Yes I hate these things

I wouldnt say Im paranoid about them, but I do tend to step quickly through them.. to someone watching me it would be like watching someone step over a puddle.

Not only that, the missus has a collection of handbags, and there is ONE handbag that.. no word of a lie... sets off about 90% of shop alarms which gets embarassing, especially since when walking out I am just waiting to hear that noise... either that or she's stealing things... hmmmmmmm

sdanseo · 14-10-2011 01:34AM

My uncle came home from Australia to visit for a month a few years ago, and for whatever reason shop alarms kept going off around him. He linked it to a car alarm fob; if he walked through without it in his pocket it didn't go off.

Jimoslimos · 14-10-2011 01:48AM

A place where I worked in had a problem with their access control cards setting off the alarm in one of the supermarkets in the town. Never happened to me but plenty of others verified it.

Think it might have been an issue with the older cards since it was only reported by more senior members of staff.

Giselle · 14-10-2011 10:33AM

CyberJuice wrote: »

Ive never been a shoplifter but anytime im in town or a shop with the alarms at the entrance im always mad paranoid when im exiting the store,i think the alarm will go off and security will come running out and grab me..

I'm not usually paranoid in shops, but going through security and customs at airports makes me so nervous that I look nervous, and because I look nervous they ALWAYS stop me for a quick frisk and/or look through my bags.

While they're doing that I'm imagining a cavity search in a back room and get even more nervous, and one day they'll decide I'm nervous for a good reason and I'll wind up in that back room while a big Russian called Martha pulls on the rubber gloves.

Its a vicious circle.

ejmaztec · 14-10-2011 10:39AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I feel guilty when I come to a police check point in the car even though I'm stone cold sober and have my tax, insurance and NTC all up-to-date.

I'm the same when I'm on my way to the woods with a dismembered corpse in the boot.:(

Snakeblood · 14-10-2011 10:50AM

I was walking through the ARE YOU A TERRORIST section of the airport in Birmingham, and stepped through the metal detector. I always set the thing off. So I heave a big sigh of 'thank **** I didn't set that off' then a woman sees me sighing in relief, and brings me over to the room where a large gentleman showed me his glove collection.

SHOW NO EMOTION IN AIRPORTS.

foxyboxer · 14-10-2011 10:56AM

I'd risk it for a copy of Bonestorm.

Logical Fallacy · 14-10-2011 11:16AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Well they can but they'd be making a citizens arrest and thats a whole new ball game - its not worth it for them if they dont have CCTV of it also tell you have aids.

Also never go to the back rooms and stay in the open as ive heard stories of security placing items on people they dragged to the back stores.

If you've done nothing wrong then keep walking, if you did do something wrong then run!

A security guard can only detain you if they are 100% certain that you have something on your person that you haven't paid for. This largely means keep line of sight on you the whole time you are in the store.

If you haven't taken anything and a security guard tries to stop you I would strongly suggesting returning to the store if asked...as you will have a nice little false arrest case that the shop will be very eager to settle.

Cupcake_Crisis · 14-10-2011 11:22AM

Mega Chin wrote: »

I always wave my to the alarm 1st just in case. Always paranoid about it :pac:

I always do that now! I set the alarm off once in a clothes shop (something I bought in a different shop) on my way in, and the security guard refused to let me into the shop

searched my bags and all! So embarrassing!

Latchy · 14-10-2011 11:23AM

=whirlpool;
Those things are always going off for absolutely no reason

. That's the problem ...it's embarrassing for many people

Nevore wrote: »

You do know they're entitled to detain you right?

Which is why innocent people accused of shoplifting take the stores to court for the embarrassment of being frog marched through the store in front of everybody and they (rightly) get awarded thousends for having their character taken .

Paranoid walking out of shops?

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