Several Wal-Mart employees in Atascocita, Texas, chased a suspected shoplifter from the store and held him down on the burning pavement until he died.
Stacy Clay Driver, 30, of Cleveland, was pronounced dead Sunday at Northeast Medical Center Hospital.
When Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department paramedics arrived, Driver was in cardiac arrest, said Royce Worrell, EMS director. Worrell said Monday he heard from investigators that Wal-Mart employees administered CPR to Driver, but he was not sure that happened.
“When we got there, the man was facedown (in cardiac arrest) with handcuffs behind his back,” Worrell said. “That’s not indicative of someone given CPR.”
Houston lawyer Charles Portz was outside the store at 6626 FM 1960 East when employees chased Driver into the parking lot Sunday afternoon.
Portz said three employees caught Driver, who twisted and turned until his shirt came off and he broke free and ran.
“They chased him right past me,” said Portz, who followed the chase, then saw four or five employees hold Driver on the ground. Driver was pleading with them to let him up, Portz said. “The blacktop was just blistering,” he said.
The high temperature at Bush Intercontinental Airport Sunday was 96 degrees.
Portz said one of the Wal-Mart employees had Driver in a choke hold as other employees pinned his body to the ground.
“He was begging, ‘Please, I’m burning, let me up,’” Portz said of Driver. “He’d push himself up off the blacktop, like he was doing a push-up.
“About 30 people were saying, ‘Let him up, it’s too hot,’” Portz said. He said another employee brought a rug for Driver to lie on, but one of those holding Driver said he was fine where he was. “After about five minutes, (Driver) said, ‘I’m dying, I can’t breathe, call an ambulance,’” Portz said. — Houston Chronicle
Sheriff’s detectives are awaiting the autopsy report before deciding whether to file charges. And Driver’s family and lawyer deny that he had been shoplifting.
Received via Hammer of Truth, who said, “Always dead shoplifters. Always.”
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Firas
Aug 11, 2005
Motherfuckers.
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Dru
Aug 11, 2005
I may hate Wal-Mart for it’s business practices, but if you’re going to STEAL from someplace, then shit’s gonna happen, amigo. I’m not saying he should be dead, but that you have to accept something bad can happen. I call it Darwinism. One less (alleged) thief in the f’ing country, because he was stupid.
I hope the police take appropriate action against the jackass that wouldn’t let him off the burning pavement, too.
Joseph Howell
Aug 13, 2005
Innocent until proven guilty. That man is one hundred percent innocent regardless of any conclusions we could jump to until such time as a court of law says different, which it probably never will. I think WalMartcould have stood to lose a few diapers for a needy infant in a community it was doubtless in the process of squeezing dry anyway.
chevy
Aug 13, 2005
This web site says that the suspected shoplifter was 30, and yet another local paper says he’s 21. Which is it, and where did you get your source?
Michael Hampton
Aug 14, 2005
Interesting. I’ll have to take a closer look at this guy, especially if they can’t agree on his age.
They Hate Our Freedoms
Aug 18, 2005
Wal-mart treats everyone like a potential criminal. Their employees often don’t bother to deactivate the RF tags in the merchandise, and then their security people accost you at the door when the alarm goes off, which it almost always does. I have stopped buying things at Wal-Mart. They obviously don’t want customers’ money that badly.
Maybe Wal Mart can use some of its profits to hire some employees who actually have a clue. Nah, that would cost money.
I dislike Wal-Mart, more so now that I know about the shoplifter incident.
shun
Aug 19, 2005
Disgusting, these 5 Wal-Mart employees should all face long term jail, I think life in prison would do it, Guy only took baby stuff, he even paid for it, (ok he switched one or 2 items) to die for $4.99 is unbelievable, I hate Wal-Mart and I hate these 5 killers, I hope they get very long jail sentences and get bit of beating them self’s, I hope they get worse possible outcomes and get same treatment they showed to this poor person they killed with no compassion…
Who gave them right to take mans life, who gave them right to even arrest man in such brutal way…
If I was American I would never go to Wal-Mart ever again, not even talking of buying things form these greedy evil corporate pigs…
It just disgust’s me how greed of some ppl will do anything to get every buck in his greedy gluttonous evil-twisted behinds, whilst 40 million Americans can’t even afford to buy piece of bread…
I hate Wal Mart…
Meg Hager
Aug 21, 2005
Oh damn, now I can’t shop at Wal-Mart anymore.
AMBER
Sep 06, 2005
SORRY I GOT TO MAKE A COMMENT TO THIS ONE!!! I USE TO LIVE IN PA AND THIS IS A FULLY TRUE STORY WHAT I’M ABOUT READY TO TELL YOU ….THIS ISN’T FOR WAL-MART ITS FOR OUR LOCAL K-MART STORE IN SAYRE… A YOUNGER GUY DECIDED TO SOMEHOW BREAK IN K-MART AND STEAL AND WHEN HE WENT TO LEAVE HE TRIED TO CLIMB OVER THE GARDEN CENTER FENCES AND WELL, SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG WITH IT HE ENDED UP STRANGLING HIMSELF THE NEXT MORNING A ASSOCIATE CAME OUT TO SET UP AND NOTICED HIM DANGLING FROM THE FENCE DEAD! ITS AMAZING WHAT KIND OF EXXTENT PEOPLE WILL GO THROUGH TO STEAL AND WELL SORRY FOR THE LOST BUT IF YOU WEREN’T TRYING TO STEAL THEN IT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED RIGHT? SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST SO DUMB I TELL YOU!!!! MAYBE STORIES LIKE THESE WILL CHANGE THE MINDS OF THOSE DUMB ONES WHO WANTED TO STEAL, HELL IF NOT THEN MAYBE THEY CAN PLAN IT OUT ALOT BETTER!!!LOL
Mike
Sep 13, 2005
I have worked for many years in the restaurant industry, having seen people pilage through a dumpster late at nite, all they need to do is say, hey Mike I have no money right now, Im hungry, can you spare it to me. Thats all it takes. The corporate giants can spare a meal.
Since I work the late night shift, Many young teens have come and spent the night after being kicked out of there homes for whatever means, they know they have a safe place to go, and if needed I have fed them out of my pocket. Or would it be better to have them out stealing and robbing a store go to jail and we end up as taxpayers supporting them in jail.
If a person is to drunk to drive, they can pass out in one of my booths at the restaurant, but they aint giong out on the road. Its fine by me, and may save your life.
Maybe a few more of us should think like this.
emily
Nov 28, 2005
I feel sorry for his family. There is no consequence in America. He took a risk stealing. WHen he got caught–he should have not struggled. By stuggling with the Walmart employees–he should have known he would be subjected to some harm-and he could also have hurt a Walmart employee. but i bet it would be ok cause the Walmart employees cant struggle with him, but he can struggle with them, because they arent allowed to struggle with him and let him go.
There are so many problems in America—there is no consequence for anything. Just get a good lawyer and u can get out of it.
That gentleman struggled for 30 minutes with 4 or 5 employees while on drugs—but blame walmart cause it is ok to steal and maybe hurt their employees while he steals.
Retailers dont let employees struggle with shoplifters so their employees dont get hurt.
If u do something illegal–u take a risk of being hurt.
ANd he just didnt steal diapers– he stole sunglasses.
Also in New orleans—its ok to go into walmart and retailers and steal evrything off their shelves—cause walmart owes them.
My parents lived in europe during the world wars—u were shot on the spot for doing things illegally. thre was no goverment to help u immediately–he worked on a farm shoveling shit to get through the war and be fed. here u just get in front of the media–and whoa is me–i dont have anything while smoking cigarettes and expecting everyone to take care of you.
I wonder if Mr driver was working—i bet u he wasnt–he just exected the world to give him everything he needed–and now his family expects the same–what is the world coming to????????????????
Sharon
Nov 30, 2005
While shoplifting is a crime and punishable by LAW it is not punishable by Wal-Mart employees. My son was in a similar situation. He was shoplifting from Wal-Mart and the same scenario happened. He turned around inside the store to give the stuff back when they told him to stop. As he turned around about 10 people jumped him. He was bruised from head to toe and while in the scuffle a woman was scratched and told the police that he did it. The charge went from a misdemeanor ticket to a felony because a woman in a pile of 10 people got a scratch on her face. With all that going on how does she know who scratched her? It is supposed to be a law that store employees are not to apprehend or touch a potential shoplifter. What happens at Wal-Mart? Are they immune to that law? Apparently. And, it is not supposed to be shoplifting if the person has not even gone out the door. Oh, and by the way we have Wal-Mart’s video which shows the scuffle. Appears to me that Wal-Mart must train their employees to all attack at once. Something should be done!!
Coyote Osborne
Jan 03, 2006
That’s funny… I wasn’t aware that shoplifting should carry the death penalty, or that Wal-Mart employees were legally-empowered to enact the death penalty.
In any case, where did this come from? I could swear I heard nearly the same story, with slightly different details, years ago. Is this something that’s just being passed around again as urban legend, or is this a new story?
Coyote Osborne
Jan 03, 2006
Note: I do think it is okay for employees or owners of a store to stop a thief. I just don’t see any excuse for doing something that causes someone to be maimed or killed after they’ve been stopped.
Truman
Feb 15, 2006
It is the retailers right to stop any shoplifter. As soon as the shoplifter goes past the last point of purchase (the last register) it is the right to stop them. This guy stole about $5 of stuff and people complain that is was just $5, why not let him go? Why didn’t he just pay for everything and then go like everyone else?
J.R.
May 20, 2006
I am a bit behind the times…..I never heard of this incident. But it did catch my attention!
Although this was an unfortunate accident it was an accident. The wal-mart employees probably did not know the guy was going into cardiac arrest; for all they knew he was just playing a trick to attempt to get free.
Besides if you make the choice to STEEL something that does not belong to you then you are taking a huge risk! With the hopes of not getting caught and getting something for free.
Well when you take that risk there is usually a good chance you will get caught. Just think if this guy was steeling something from YOU!!! Just because it happened to be a large corporation doesn’t mean its ok.
For the most part people are lucky and get away with it….other people get caught by the police….sometimes they have bad luck and get caught by the people they are steeling from…owell you shouldn’t be doing it anyway. This guy paid a huge price for whatever he took but he made the choice to pay for it like that!!!!
YOU ASK AND YOU SHALL RECIEVE……LOL!
Hamp
Jul 04, 2006
It disgusts me to see that many of you have sided with killers.
The blacktop was scorching and the employee’s knew this.
They held that man down to punish him, and that is not their place.
Their self-righteousness killed another human being. These people
are criminally responsible for his death. You don’t have to be
a lawyer or a judge to logically conclude that the man was subdued,
and surrounded. He was a danger to no one. His death was most likely
preventable. I have not seen autopsy results, but if they show signs
of trauma to the face from being held face-down on a scorching street,
these employees’ could face an especially harsh punishment.
Self-righteous and mob mentality prevented these workers from holding
him in an office until the proper authorities could arrive and DO
THEIR JOB.
I think it just, that these people be shown no mercy for THEIR CRIME.
Organ Merchant
Jul 04, 2006
suspected shoplifter
Was he actually shoplifting or did he die needlessly?
Anonymous
Jul 04, 2006
FUCK WALL MART AND MAERICA I USED TO STEAL FORM THEM ALL THE TIME LOLOLOLOL AND IF THEY WOULD HAVE TRYED THAT WITH ME THOSE WALLMART NIGGERS WOULD BE DEAD
Jason
Sep 08, 2006
It’s “Wal-Mart” you hick. One “L”, not two. Moron. and “America” and “tried”. Bloody idiot.
tom
Oct 01, 2006
As a Ex Walmart employee 2 things go thru my mind..
1 what the hell were those employee thinking.. let him run and have
his ill gotten gains… we are told to do nothing like what you read
here.. a loss of life over someting as trivial as this is repugnant.
2 there is nothing worse than working at a place where everybody from
white trash to convicted felons and pedophiles come into your place
of work and expect you to smile and wait on them as if they are
gods… and dont you think less of anyone who buts up with your
crap as you knowing treat them like crap and leave there while they
are stuck in the worlds worst place to work……..
punctuation and spelling errors are for your entertainment..
I done got me and edumaction and a REAL F***ING JOB !!!
Dave
Oct 06, 2006
This is interesting. In Texas, if someone is stealing from your home, you have the right to shoot them, and no it is not murder. It is easy to sit at a computer and say it is this amount or that amount. Let 4 million people steal a quarter and they collectivly have stolen a million dollars. If I am stealing, I will try to get away, however if I am innocent, I flash the reciept and show my items, and go about my business. Saying that you get accousted? Give me a break, it takes a minute to show the reciept and let them see the items.
To the woman who’s son was shoplifting: no he should not have been jumped by ten people, however these people are not trained officers (who also make mistakes), but your son was in violation of the law by even attempting to steal the items, kind of like guilty of crime or not if you are talking to underaged individuals and allegations of sexual misconduct comes about, you put your ownself in that situation. Your son was still liable for the girls scratch because he was the first actor of crime. It is just like a fender bender or driving while intoxicated (if you get hit, you are still in the wrong). Please all those who said it is ok to steal the small pentence from Wal-Mart send your home address on this site, and I will be glad to come take a small fortune from you and I will expect no violence, because as you say, it is ok.
Yeah, while the ground was scortching hot, I have no sympathy, his shirt was torn because he was “RUNNING AWAY”. By the way, I live in Atascocita and there have not been workers here for years that were even in shape enough to be doing it for the hell of it or to harass a guy. The employees have a lack luster attitude.
youngster
Oct 21, 2006
I reeally really hate walmarts policy or treatment with shoplifters. I say this from experience cause a long time ago i tried to shoplift there too but i took like 3 dollars worth of stuff. What really sucks is that the person who caught me only stopped me cause he said i gave him a weird look. My opionion on that is that i cant really help giving a weird look cause he looked soo mad and serious and he kept on following me. This draws to the conclusion of mine that they are stopping many innocent people that just didnt want a weird person following them and they are embarrising them and making others think their shoplifers..in my case i dunno what i was thinking and i deserved it but like seriously these people are a*holes. Even worst was once they did i jus did watever they told me to do and signed everything they wanted and they gave me a 1 year ban from walmarts and a lady that took 20 dollars woth of stuff got only a 6 month ban and they were like, since you didnt cause any trouble i wont ban you for long, i know your a good person so please dont do this again. and what they did to me was just me, i was scared n crying and all they said was like, a short snicker. the kind that means like your such a pathetic fool. I was 13 when this happened and the lady was about 30. like c’mon peple have some compassion u corperate anus!!!
Anonymous
Nov 15, 2006
I find it hilarious that so many of you blame Wal-Mart for this incident. Have you ever looked at an employee there, most of them are teenagers. The guys who held this dude down were probably riding high on their horses considering they caught the guy and didn’t care if he was suffering. I agree, they should face criminal charges, but wal-mart isn’t really at fault. Also, why do people always fell sorry for criminals b/c they’re stealing baby supplies or stuff like that. Why couldn’t he get a job and pay for those things, like the rest of the world does. Probably b/c he’s a drug addict or alcoholic, and wouldn’t wal-mart would’t even hire him. There’s no excuse for his action, and the fact that he died doesn’t change that. And no, I do not work for Wal-Mart.
Steve
Nov 16, 2006
To anonymous. No one condones shoplifting. But why are you justifying MURDER because he has been judged by YOU to be below your personal
condescending standards? Perhaps you may be below MY standards…could I wish murder on you? Do you want a job interviewing Iraqui prisoners? I think you qualify!
WinB
Nov 17, 2006
First the guy wasn’t proven guilty. Second, while retail establishments have the right to stop suspected shoplifters they also have the responsibility not to kill them I am sure. If you are going to stop them then take care to not endanger their life. Especially since they are not proven guilty yet. They should have taken more care to protect life, it was negligence not to. They need to be responsible for their actions too, as does Walmart if it does expect employee’s to be this agressive in stopping suspected shoplifters.
Jennifer
Nov 22, 2006
I steal all the time. Well if I need something I mean, and I can’t afford it, I will just take it. Most things I take are ridiculously overpriced anyway. I don’t see why I should pay 69.00 for a T-shirt that says Ralph Lauren, the cost should be around 20.00 so I will just take two and pay for one. It’s simple really. What is not simple is why anyone would want to steal junk from wal mart. Eye for an eye, Wal mart steals from every community, and the community steals back. Wal Mart Kills shoplifters, perhaps America should stop shopping there for one friggin day and then see what it does to them, imagine what would happen if no one went there for a week. I hate em. I am glad our town doesn’t have one.
Chuck
Nov 29, 2006
Hum, sounds like we now have the Wal-Mart police. From everything I have studied about law, the most an employee is suppose to do is id the suspect and then hand that info over to the police. Wal-Mart is 100% responsible for the death of this employee remember the saying master is responsible for the servent. In this case Wal-Mart is responsible since their employee’s did this. I have to side with the suspected shoplifter on this one since this is America and everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. For the ones that have been harased by the receipt police at the door, I feel your pain. I’ve had it happen to me and it is annoying as crap, any more I just continue on. When they approach me I just ask what they want, they advise they want to check my bag at which time I tell them unless they have a search warrant they need to leave me alone. For the Texas folks how many innocent folks have been killed by your gun laws that allow the shooting of someone just because they are suspected of stealing?
tom
Dec 18, 2006
Kill them all, let GOD sort them out!!
Anonymous
Dec 27, 2006
That poor bastard I guess i deserve to tortured for all eternity if wal mart only knew
Connie
Jan 24, 2007
Sorry….I have absolutely no sympathy for that thief. Drug addicts steal to support their habits and steal to survive because they are too stoned and wasted to work productively. They are the bottom feeders of society and they do not care about the damage to property or the pain they inflict on others. They cycle in and out of the judicial system and cost us tremendously in medical care as they use our crowded emergency rooms as primary care.
As in many cases similar to this one, the culprit is a chronic drug user, which inflicts heart damage and heart insufficiency, then the stress of a situation like this escalates the fatal episode. This is a health and lifestyle choice made by the drug user. I feel sorry for the Wal-Mart employees who were caught in the legal battles of this situation. I don’t want to hear that the poor thing could not afford diapers and had to steal them. Chances are that he had the money for beer, cigarettes and his current high.
Usama
Jan 30, 2007
I agree, Connie. For thieves, a chopping of the right hand. For adulterers, death!
Marie
Jan 31, 2007
Interesting in that not that long ago I reported
a shoplifting, I saw it myself. I saw the guy do
it and then walk to the door. Wal Mart told me there was
nothing they could do. Huh? He was stealing. I saw it!
So I’m puzzled as to how this other guy was detained, cuffed
and such. Why not just have a trap door under the entrance?
When you shoplift, a camera operator just tags you with
an invisible paint gun. When you walk out the door, you
are dropped into a pit of alligators below. Problem solved.
Keeps prices low.
It doesn’t help that shoplifting was glamorized on
a news program all too recently. They basically told
everyone that you can shoplift and there isn’t much
a store can do if the dollar amount and your age are
in your favor. Go ahead, shoplift. Great news coverage, eh?
cheriscott
Feb 04, 2007
I looked up on internet and walmart has killed at least 6 or more people in these incidents. I personally saw a security guard of theirs pick a woman up over his head and slam her to ground. In tulsa one was just killed also. Why are they allowed to touch anyone????? and why arent they being charged???
You Me Everyone
Mar 23, 2007
The lesson here is:
CRIME DOESN’T PAY
Customer
Mar 23, 2007
Alot of the comments here suggest that they are thiefs or don’t understand that shopplifting affects us all. I shop at a Wal-Mart in AZ they have been open a little over 1 yeat. In this year I have seen it have to change to adapt to theft and with that change comes a more inconveniant shopping experiance. I will now list the changes I have noticed and how it affects you, me and the employee’s.
At first you could go to this store and pick up printer ink easy because it wasn’t locked up. Because of mojor theft of these items the ink is now locked up behind a locked case.
At this store if you wanted to buy a computer you could pick it up and take it to the register and pay for it. Now because of theft we have to track down an employee and have him/her go in the back and get it and escort us to the regester.
At this store you could find the HDTVs on the sales floor, but now because of theft of those tvs we have the same complications as with the computers. We have to find an employee and have them go to the back and get the tv and escort us to the register.
Again at this store the laptop computers we behind a glass case which needed to be unlocked by an employee untill one night a customer broke into the case and stole the laptops now those are stored in the back.
Also the WOW game time cards now have an alarm device atached to it now because of theft along with many other items. This makes buying these items take another 2 or so min to purchase. Because they have to get the employee with the key to remove the divice from the product.
Now because of criminals stealing items in the restroom in the back of the store, it now has a lock on it and is now closed at night. Because of this we can only use the restrooms in the front of the store.
These changes cost us and the employees time all because someone thought they were better than us and didn’t have to pay.
As you can see theft afects us all in some way or another. Whether it is costing us time or costing us money. We all know that theft also raises prices so I won’t get into that. Shopplifting is an entry level position for criminals and usualy esculates to higher level of crimes that may directly affect you and me.
lp 110
Apr 25, 2007
I worked for walmart for several years catching shoplifters and in just 2 and half years I caught over 600 people.Some came in with no problem and some tried to fight and aways hear how bad it was for a shoplifter to get hurt. Well What about many of the loss prevention people that get stabbed ,shot or hurt? You never hear anyone talking about that, We were their to keep prices lower and protect people.I am sure if someone was stealing from you that you would not just stand their and let them do it. Or main goal was to recover the items and bring them back into the store for paper work.Lots of times we would just let them go,,But no alot of people will run or assult the Loss Prevention.I have been punched, bitten, a gun pulled and knifes pulled and ever has someone try to run me over. So to me a Shoplifter puts himself in a position to get hurt when trying to assult someone,,Do I think they should die for it,No.But if it happen with no fault of the Loss Prevention then Sorry thats the way it goes. The one that died in tulsa was also one that had been caught several times and each time he assulted someone trying to get away.So for those who say poor shoplifter,.I say poor people with small minds and POOR people who are trying to do their job.Walmart employees are not allowed to carry weapons but I am sure alot of shoplifters do and dont care that we were unarmed.
lp 110
Apr 25, 2007
Also I guess its ok for a shoplifter to assult a person but that person is not allowed to protect his or herself,.From reading coments I feel most of you think that way.Whats bad is even if they are assulting us,All we were allowed to do was detain them and bring them back.Now that I dont work for walmart all i can say is if you Assult me,,,Better be ready for a fight,.
lp 110
Apr 27, 2007
The more I think about it the more I have to say. Everyone has a right to do a citizens arrest and has the right to use nessary force to detain that person.Someone asked why should we be allowed to even touch them,.I guess it is the same as if a cop has to detain someone,Whats he suposed to do..Say stop even though I CANT TOUCH YOU????? How dumb can some people be.Seems to me maybe Cheriscott might have a shoplifting problem themself? She seems more worried about a rights to a low life theif then safty of people working for a living and trying to do their job the best way they can.
Ex Walmart Employee
Apr 29, 2007
As an ex walmart employee, I have seen numerous people shop-lifting…we were told that If we catch a shoplifter, to report it to a manager, by that time they are already out of the store and gone. I have seen women in the underwear aisle, stealing underwear by putting them on underneath their skirts…sometimes they go out wearing 6 or 7 pairs. Its sad because these women were dressed nice like they had a good job and stealing from Wal-mart. I do feel for people who don’t have money, but if you don’t have money you don’t need to go to Wal-mart to begin with. There are other stores who have off brands that are cheaper than Wal-mart. Its sad that an employee would have to do that to a person because, they don’t make enough money throughout the year and once a year they get a “bonus”, if you call it that, and when you steal from Wal-mart it comes out of the employees pockets too. How would that make you feel for someone to come and steal from you to get baby stuff for theirs, when you’re working minimum wage to get stuff your baby needs. No, I don’t feel it was right for them to hold him down, but its never right to steal. Then again 2 wrongs don’t make a right. I would hate to be the judge of this trial, because some people would do anything for money.
anonymous
May 08, 2007
idiots.
wife of an ex-lp
May 16, 2007
You know I have sat here and read all of these comments and everyone is oh the poor shop lifter do you people not relize that everytime any poor little shop lifter takes something that they are just making you pay more for what you need and dont we have to pay enough for things as it is and why is it that you always hear about the shop lifter that gets hurts my husband has SCARES on his body from these so called poor shoplifters and no ever hears about everything that they have to go through tring to keep our prices down no one gives a crap about them yeah sorry that the guy died but you know what IF HE DIDNT PUT HIMSELF in that position then I guess he would have been just fine now wouldnt he I can tell that most of you who have commented really have simple simple little minds and probably wouldnt care if you had a loved one that was employed to help keep you and your economy safe from people who just want everything for free personally I am glad that the employees made it out safe this time with out being stabbed or shot or ran over by one of the shoplifters buddys who was waiting just outside to try and help him get away and you know what I bet you if the dumb ass wouldnt have tried to fight then the employees probably wouldnt have had to hold him down. All I have to say is shit happens when you screw up and I guess this guy finally screwed up just one to many times.
wife of an ex-lp
May 16, 2007
I thought that I got everything out just a minute ago but after logging off and still thinking about this NO I DIDNT you know the more and more I thought about this and thinking back through all the years that my husband caught shoplifters for walmart the more upset I got I can bet you that no one would ever hear or even care about everything about what they go through I can remember a time that I went to pick up my husband for lunch one day (because I had not been able to see him very much because their store was getting hit hard by these poor little shoplifters)a hot summer day for that and in our area it could be 100 in the shade as I was talking to another employee who had a radio and had just informed me that they were getting ready to follow a guy out I hear them yelling across the radio to call the cops the guy has a knife I dropped everything I had in my hands purse and all and took off running to their location I ran so fast that I passed the other employees running to help them in that moment I had my whole world pass before my eyes and how I was gonna have to tell our kids that daddy wasnt coming home that night I was lucky I didnt have to tell our kids that because my husband was very good at what he did for a living and everyone made it out okay that day yeah the dumb ass that was shoplifting was slightly injured but you know what I would much rather something happen to him than to my husband because like I said before IF HE WOULDNT HAVE PUT HIMSELF in that situation then he would have just went home that night to and I can bet you if something would have happened to him or any of the other employees that were there that day NO ONE WOULD HAVE EVEN CARED but me and the other spouses and loved ones that day. That night I held my husband a little closer and a little longer that night and just thanked god that he was with him that day because you know what this is what they (the loss prevention employees) have to deal with everyday how do you know if they would have let this guy go at any moment that he wouldnt have had a weapon on him cause when this guy came up after they had gotten him down he was ready to take one of their lives that day they dont know if any of these people have weapons and what they are willing to do to get away. How do yo know if one of these guys would have gotten away that they wouldnt have tried to hurt one of your husbands wifes children or loved ones you dont so dont sit there and think oh these guys were just having a power trip no they were probably thinking of there own lives and the people around them at the time including the other customers at that store that day things can go really bad for these guys in a second and they cant take any chances. So the next time you feel sorry for someone that is committing a crime against the public which that is what shoplifters are doing think about my husband and how I almost had to tell our kids that daddy was gone. This is why I am so thankful that my husband doesnt do this for a living anymore even though he put hundreds of criminals behind bars that none of us have to worry about for a while no ever thanks them for what they do and how they put there lives on the line each and everyday so to all of the loss prevention employees and ex employees thank you for what you do for all of us everyday and be safe. Some of us do care that you all made it out of this one ok.
briannyethenaziguy
Jun 01, 2007
fuck walmart..
RazrCandi
Jun 02, 2007
Whine whine whine…oh my poor husband! Dumb bitch. No one cares. GO FUCK YOURSELF. lol
lp110
Jun 02, 2007
I understand people will always have different opinion on things and Respect all opinions. But the last comment is not even an opinion.Its just a stupid remark from someone that has nothing better to do then act stupid.I guess thats what comes from in breading of the family
wife of ex-lp
Jun 06, 2007
Well I guess that some people really know how to show just how intelligent (I am sorry that word is probably to big for you the simple small word for that would be smart or how much brains they have in their tiny little heads) I would have said education but I can tell that you don’t have any of that either you must be one of the crack heads that my husband has busted in the past and if you are tring to figure out who this comment is directed to it is RazrCandi
anonymous
Jun 06, 2007
Quite a few of you should be banned from the Internet until you get a dictionary and learn how to spell properly. It is obvious there are many Walmart shoppers posting here.
Anonymous
Jun 14, 2007
Stacy Driver’s family ought to be ashamed of themselves. Stacy steals and then his family wins more money because of sue happy America. Worthless slugs… Stop suing and take some ownership people. Parents need to stop suing schools and defending children in every sense. This causes them to grow up and do what the Driver’s did. Worthless…
anonymous
Jul 27, 2007
It is sad that someone had to die over suspected shoplifting and that nothing was done to help the person, but what is really pathetic is the fact that so much effort is put into commenting on it. He obviously wansn’t running because he was shopping. Maybe we should do something more constructive with our time like worrying about soldiers overseas dying for something worthwhile, and worth news. How many trees had to die printing newspapers for THAT? Sounds to me like everyone should have acted more like adults, or maybe just acted. Seems like alot of standing around observing to me.
none of your busines
Aug 03, 2007
this fills me with hatred and anger i feel like flipping off ever y walmart emplyee at walamrt today when me my friend and our girlfriends go i hate them i hate them i will burn that place down and for all you people on this site siding with criminalls fuckyou go side with the gay walamrt faggotts
roger
Aug 03, 2007
i was just charged with shoplifting from wal-mart in west virginia i have plead not guilty and am now awaiting another court date to be sent to me to appear before a magistrate and i wasn’t even shoplifting i am not saying it couldn’t have been perceived as that cuz i damn well did look like it but it wasn’t let me tell you what happened
me and my girlfriend 8 year old boy was out shopping well at the mall i had bought a game at eb games and her son wanted a t particular game the game for the movie cars well while looking through games i had set it down and when i purchased mine i had forgot all about buying his game we got to the car and started driving down the road when he said i forgot to get his game so i said we would get it another time well i then thought about going to the wal-mart that wasn’t that far from our current location we stopped in and we walked in just me and the kid we went back to the electronics and picked a movie out for his mother and i had found another game which was a poker game for ps2 i wanted so i picked it up but next to it was the cars game that the kid had wanted so i secretly slid it behing the poker game when he wasn’t looking we then had went into an isle that something on the shelf caught his attention i then hid the games uner the back of my muscel shirt so he could neot see them we walked around the corner which was also by the exit the kid ran passed there sensors i had stepped right by them and yelled for him to come back to me at that time two men one skinny and one fat guy grabbed me up not a tap on the shoulder or an excuse me but physically the fat guy (which looked like a mongoloid)grabbed me around the waist which had encased my right arm and the skinny guy had put my left arm in an arm hold and without anything being said thus far he said say one word and i will knock the fucking daylights out of you he thenm said i will make sure you don’t wake back up this was said in front of the kid at that point i started to try to get the fat guy off of me which was trying to squeese me as hard as he could like a bear hug and the other guy was pushing me towards the back of the store everytime i tried to say something they were cursing me and threatning me they were not in wal-mart uniforms and were not wearing any name tags they were dressed like anybody else shopping blue jeans and a tee shirt then they put me in a chair and tell me not to say a word then they ask me for my social i tell him and he says say it again and i said you didn’t get it he got all red and got in my face and again threaned to knock my lights out well at that point i knew it was useless to even try to say anything then the cop came in and wouldn’t let me say anything told me to just say yes or no i said ok and he got in my face and said i told you to say yes or no don’t piss me off well i sat there and they had the child in the hallway in a chair where i could see and the manager of the store was asking him about his homelife i said your not to talk to him the cop and the store associate told me to shut up and the store manager kept talking to him finally i got my ticket and left the store they had also made me sign a paper saying i wasn’t able to enter any west virginia wal-mart establishment we left and ain’t been back i am 22 years old and today i went to the court hearing and the pr bonded me and said i am facing a 100 to 500 dollar fine or 60 days in jail or both and i have to pay wal-mart a fee for shoplifting plus pay double the price of the merchandise which added up to 54.06 i plead not guilty and asked to be appointed an attorney now i am awaiting a peice of mail stating my next court date i am going to go not guilty all the way because i was not shoplifting and i even had plenty of money on me to pay for the merchandise and i had even said i was paying for it well i was just writing this to show how well wal-mart supposedly handles things i thought no employee was allowed to put there hands on you unless you have set foot outside of the store i may be wrong but i believe if you are still in the store how could you have stolen it if it is still there oh and by the way none of the merchandise was damaged in any way or even attempted to be opened or altered
roger
Aug 03, 2007
any mistypes well you should be able to figure the words out i have a sticky keyboard caused by a pop spill so sorry for any misspelling
judy
Aug 09, 2007
saw the word texas… it was all i needed to know
Anonymous
Aug 30, 2007
I currently work for walmart. The LP guy had to go to the hospital once because these stupid asshole people who were shoplifting decided to beat the shit out of him. And then the head LP, told us we weren’t allowed to do anything but be a witness. But it was a good thing that the cart guy tackled the shoplifter that was being the lp up. There was once a lady who got caught and she decided she needed to use the restroom and while she was in the restroom she overdosed on shots of drugs. And the ambulance had to come out. That’s just some of the things shoplifters will do to get out of their situations. I don’t agree with how the people greeters treat the customers sometimes especailly the one in garden center. She’s horrible.
But anyways. I don’t really believe the story of shoplifters getting jumped by ten people let alone six. If the shoplifters are going to be obtained it’s going to be by the lp. Not the regular employees because we are always told we can not touch them. We are not allowed to do anything. If we see someone shoplifting we call a memember of management. That’s the rules.
Although I work for walmart and I would agree with our lp people.
I still think that in the community walmart doesn’t do any good. And they screw over associates time and time again. And if you get hurt on the job the doctors just jerk you around saying that this is wrong with you then oh no now it’s this. what the hell?
I couldn’t careless if walmart disappeared off the face of the earth!
Although the low prices are great and all, there isn’t that big of a difference in their prices and Targets and Kmarts. It would be nice if we could have a new and improved walmarts with employees that treat customers and associates a lot better then they do now.
I bet if Sam Walton was still alive half the shit that goes on in these walmart places would come to a stop. But the head corp. is all interested in the money for themselves.
poopville
Aug 31, 2007
fuck walmart, they’re greedy pigs. and those employees should be punished for that vigilantism… sure the guy was wrong to steal but who are they to kill him, fuck that shit
truthSearcher
Oct 20, 2007
F*@k walli-world! THEY are the real scum thieves. As we squabble over shoplifting THEY are fleecing Chinese and American workers of a decent living. Then they sell us inferior crap goods poisoned with lead because it’s so much more important to keep the wealth moving upward instead of looking out for their consumers. Screw corporate america! because brother you best believe they’re out to screw you!
wal mart hater
Oct 21, 2007
i asked my local police department in louisiana if i could taze a wal mart employee if the put thier hands on me and they said that was ok self defense
stealing is NOT deth
Dec 15, 2007
Penalty for stealing is not death, and those employees should have been arrested for manslaughter.
sue walmart
Dec 15, 2007
We should sue walmart $5M for all every single abused employee and sweatshop worker that walmart abuses. That’ll teach ‘em. Too bad only corps can sue corps.
wal mart sucks butt
Dec 19, 2007
I would like to rip out the hearts of those who like wal mart, and eat them.
wal mart sucks butt
Dec 19, 2007
…but then again, wal mart lovers are so disgusting that their hearts would probably make me puke.
bake
Jan 15, 2008
you know i bet this guy or nobody else in that town steals from walmart again – especially in the heat of the summer – bottom line “thou shall not steal” i write it up as bad karma
Jenni Jenn Jenn
Jan 17, 2008
I steal from Wal-Mart almost every single time I go in their. I have this certain pocket book that I use because it is very roomy and I just go in and fill it up with whatever my heart desires (well almost). If I can fit it into my purse, then I can steal it, no matter what it is. Just as long as it fits in my purse. In the past, I’ve even taken my son in their with an empty diaper bag (a big one) and filled it up too. And then their was this one time when I was shoplifting, and I accidentally forget to check something for a security strip before putting it in my purse and when I walked out the alarm went off and I was stopped. I had a purse and diaper bag full of crap and a few bags of stuff that I had to purchase because their was no room to steal it. Well, when the alarm went off, I just casually kept walking like nothing was wrong. The lady called me 3 times before I turned around. I just remained calm and smiled at her. She grabbed my walmart bags and walked back through the detectors (meanwhile, I stood in the lobby) to see if something was tagged. Nothing happened. Well, instead of asking me to walke back through with my personal bags (to see if I had stole something), she just put my walmart bags back in my buggy for me and said that someone else walking out at the same time as me probably set the alarm off. She apologized for the inconvenience and told me to have a nice day. I couldn’t believe it!
So I’m wondering, how does Walmart even catch shoplifters? I mean, obviously the security cameras are just for looks. I do understand that majority of the time, shoplifters are caught by the way they are behaving (running around in circles, looking over their shoulder, just acting suspicious) and not everyone is able to remain cool, calm, and collected like myself. But what about all of the shoplifters like myself, that are able to steal something so easily even when there is an employee standing only 2 feet away? (Man, I could tell you some crazy stories about how I stole from Walmart).
Scooter
Feb 21, 2008
Jenni Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenn,
I heard about the time you stole a ham by sticking up your poopchute. That was awesome! I bet you can get a microwave next time!
Later Jenni Jenn Jenn Jenn Jenni Jenn