Theft Prevention, Why Did I Get Beeped AT?

[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!