Theft Prevention, Why Did I Get Beeped AT?

[lukevanoort]

Y'know, this gives me an idea of an excellent prank to pull on my older brother. Anyway, I've never had this happen to me, but I wear shorts year round, so there aren't any folds or such in them for a security tag to hide in, however when my brother and I were leaving Home Depot with the compound miter saw we got my Dad the security system did go off, but that was because the register/barcode scanner screwed up.

[Greg Needel]

good story for this thread. I was in the target by my house in Maryland a few years ago eating a pretzel at their little food shop when a family walked out of the store. The alarm went off and the security guard went and stopped them and went through their bags. After a few mins they found nothing but as they went to leave again the alarm went off again. The security guard went back up to them asking to search the purse of the woman. She let the guard yet they still found nothing. The went to leave and it still went off so the guard asked all the members of the family to go out individually. One by one they went out and the alarm went off when the youngest son went through. The mother checked his pockets...nothing. Well it turns out the child had stepped on one of the sticky tags and it was on the bottom of his shoe. The family was probably only held up for like 15 mins of this but i was thinking at the time how funny this was, and now i have some relevant place to share my story.

[Bcahn836]

At staples we have these little "easy tags" that go on anything and everything worth stealing. Anyway we get these little tags in sheets, one day a fellow employee thought it would be funny to put them down so others would step on them and get them stuck on the bottom of people's shoes. So every 10 mins the anti theft thingy at the door would go off. It got annoying after while although it was quite amusing, the guy almost got fired over it.

[Cuog]

Hilariously those little security devices(the ones that look like a giant stamp at least) can boost your cell phone signal, I have one without the center section where the RF thingymajig is stored removed and placed in my cell phone so where i normally got 2 or 3 bars i was getting 4 or 5 its pretty neat.

[team222badbrad]

Here is some information on the tags I found in my jeans.

Shoplifting Tags

Upon looking inside the rented DVD's they have the exact same type of tags.

Oddly enough they say "Be Kind Please Rewind", no joke!

I can just imagine walking into Old Navy with those same jeans on and the alarm going off, that would be bad. Sir, were is the receipt for those jeans you have on?

I am also curious as to how the tag became reactivated?

Did I get to close to a scanner/enabler when checking out?

If it did become enabled inside a store, apparently it did not set off the alarm.

[KenWittlief]

One of the best practical jokes Ive ever heard:

when a friend of mine was in college he use to study with a group of 4 other guys at the university library. Once, when one of them went to look for a book, he grabbed a book off the shelf and stuffed it in the bottom of the kids backpack.

When they walked out the alarm went off, and this 18 year old girl calls them all back to the check out desk. I wont say what the title of the book was (to avoid offending anyone - use your imagination :^) but when the girl pulled the book from his bag and told him "its ok, you can check this out and nobody will know" he just about died from embarassment

and the rest of the guys just about died laughing!