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shoplifting
1. Then, after three peaceful weeks, the police chief of some town in Pennsylvania called to say that he had been picked up for shoplifting
2. They were usually pretty shitfaced by the time shoplifting
3. But why Zeno? Then he remembered it was Zeno who’d told Stephen that Irma had been shoplifting
4. Shoplifting is the theft or concealment of merchandise from a retail establishment without the intent to pay for it, such as placing items in one’s pocket and walking out of a store
5. states may punish shoplifting under their general larceny or theft statutes, many states have enacted statutes to specifically address shoplifting
6. Crucially, this means that in most states, one can break shoplifting laws without attempting to get out of a store with stolen goods
7. State laws vary widely in the severity of shoplifting charges
8. In some places, any shoplifting offense may result in a jail sentence
9. Because shoplifting poses a large threat to retailers, the issue of how far they can go in attempts to stop shoplifters has a long history
10. Though these laws vary, store owners and their employees generally are allowed to detain an individual when they have probable cause to suspect shoplifting
11. What constitutes probable cause to suspect shoplifting comes down to case by case specifics
12. Most states require that the store or its employees have evidence which would lead a reasonable person to believe that shoplifting had occurred or was in progress
13. If the store bases its detention of a suspected shoplifter on information from a non-employee informer, that informer must have a reasonable basis for suspecting shoplifting
14. Shoplifting is a type of theft involving the taking or concealment of items being offered for sale
15. Bartleby was so overjoyed that he didn't care whether or not he was being charged for shoplifting
16. In extreme cases shoplifting
17. But there is another potential problem having to do with shoplifting
18. We may also find another solution to shoplifting so as to not mess up our ordering system but what about in-store thieves? Specifically what I am referring to is the bag of chips, which accidentally winds up as damaged in order to satisfy the salt cravings of the stock clerks
19. “You know George McGuire, who is doing time at the Guilford County Prison farm because of a shoplifting charge, isn’t Butch’s real dad – don’t you? … He’s only Butch’s stepfather
20. As for the basic shoplifting tactic, I've discovered that you can jam
21. Being homeless, I met whole families that had made shoplifting a career
22. there, though is now in lock up for shoplifting
23. She was thrown in the slammer for shoplifting at that posh department
24. Stupid shoplifting kids, she thought
25. Shoplifting never appealed to you before
26. Remembering the time when she had her handbag stolen, she also realises that it is unlikely she will be arrested for shoplifting
27. This individual, who, either in his own person or in that of some member of his family, seemed to be always in trouble (which in that place meant Newgate), called to announce that his eldest daughter was taken up on suspicion of shoplifting
28. old I made the scones of course I had everything all to myself then a girl Hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand we were like cousins what age was I then the night of the storm I slept in her bed she had her arms round me then we were fighting in the morning with the pillow what fun he was watching me whenever he got an opportunity at the band on the Alameda esplanade when I was with father and captain Grove I looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go through me like all needles my eyes were dancing I remember after when I looked at myself in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was attractive to a girl in spite of his being a little bald intelligent looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like Thomas in the shadow of Ashlydyat I had a splendid skin from the sun and the excitement like a rose I didnt get a wink of sleep it wouldnt have been nice on account of her but I could have stopped it in time she gave me the Moonstone to read that was the first I read of Wilkie Collins East Lynne I read and the shadow of Ashlydyat Mrs Henry Wood Henry Dunbar by that other woman I lent him afterwards with Mulveys photo in it so as he see I wasnt without and Lord Lytton Eugene Aram Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford on account of the name I dont like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders a whore always shoplifting anything she could cloth and stuff and yards of it O this blanket is too heavy on me thats better I havent even one decent nightdress this thing gets all rolled under me besides him and his fooling thats better I used to be weltering then in the heat my shift drenched with the sweat stuck in the cheeks of my bottom on the chair when I stood up they were so fattish and firm when I got up on the sofa cushions to see with my clothes up and the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets I couldnt read a line Lord how long ago it seems centuries of course they never came back and she didnt put her address right on it either she may have noticed her wogger people were always going away and we never I remember that day with the waves and the boats with their high heads rocking and the smell of ship those Officers uniforms on shore leave made me seasick he didnt say anything he was very serious I had the high buttoned boots on and my skirt was blowing she kissed me six or seven times didnt I cry yes I believe I did or near it my lips were taittering when I said goodbye she had a Gorgeous wrap of some special kind of blue colour on her for the voyage made very peculiarly to one side like and it was extremely pretty it got as dull as the devil after they went I was almost planning to run away mad out of it somewhere were never easy where we are father or aunt or marriage waiting always waiting to guiiiide him toooo me waiting nor speeeed his flying feet their damn guns bursting and booming all over the shop especially the Queens birthday and throwing everything down in all directions if you didnt open the windows when general Ulysses Grant whoever he was or did supposed to be some great fellow landed off the ship and old Sprague the consul that was there from before the flood dressed up poor man and he in mourning for the son then the same old bugles for reveille in the morning and drums rolling and the unfortunate poor devils of soldiers walking about with messtins smelling the place more than the old longbearded jews in their jellibees and levites assembly and sound clear and
29. They would goof around, shoplifting from drugstores, magic-markering song lyrics on the boards surrounding demolition sites, and collecting discreet photos of the ratty kids you saw more and more on the streets of Manhattan, down where the grid went crooked, the ragged and dispofuckingsessed
