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- From: jung@base.bellcore.com (Eric Jung)
- Subject: Re: Eating before paying - (Was: Can a landlord refuse cash?)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:53:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.175318.29830@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- |> A while ago, someone, (probably Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
- |>
- |> >There's no debt because they're not
- |> >your Chee-tos yet. (BTW if you ate them before paying you
- |> >have committed retail theft, for which you may be prosecuted).
-
- Well, this depends on your local law. I was a store detective for a few
- years in New Jersey. There's no such thing as "retail theft" in NJ; it's
- just plain old shoplifting. The shoplifting statute in NJ (2C:20-11)
- states that one must have intent to commit shoplifting. It also states
- that concealing something is shoplifting, but I'd never pick anyone up
- for concealment without having something real solid to prove intent in
- court.
-
- I think walking around a grocery store filling up a cart while eating
- your Cheetos is quite innocent. Then again, you'd have to convince a
- judge or jury -- not me.
-
- Eric
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