We Were Caught Accidently Stealing!

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The title says it all. We were in Sears, just shopping around, and my Papaw was loading up the buggy with tools that he needed. As he was grabbing a table saw, he noticed a marked down wrench set on another shelf. There were supposed to be 8 wrenches in the package, but because one was missing, it was marked down to $5. He tossed it in the buggy, and forgot about it as he went to grab other stuff. We go to check out, and the total was a whopping $350. As we go to leave the buzzer things go off and two men come over, and bring us to lost prevention. Turns out, the wrenches accidentally got shoved, out of view, under the metal child seat which had a blanket over it for my sister who was sitting in it. Loss prevention called the police, even though we offered to pay for the product 500 times, and told them we didn’t mean to do it. I mean, come on! There were $200 worth of power tools, and $150 worth of other tools that we already paid for. Why would we try to steal a $5 wrench set with a missing wrench? The police came, they thought it was ridiculous too, but my grandparents still had to go to court for it. They won the case though. So what’s your, “I got caught stealing” story? Do you think loss prevention has gotten out of hand?