Theft Prevention, Why Did I Get Beeped AT?

[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.