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In Reply to: Right you are posted by Oldtimer on May 18, 2004 at 21:58:15:
Someone I know was telling me a few days ago about a situation his son found himself in.
The son is 20 years old. He has a job at a store that is part of a huge national office supply chain.
The loss prevention people busted a theft ring in the store that had been stealing merchandise into the six figures.
After arresting all of the people they knew to be involved in the ring, they sat all of the other employees down in a room and told them it was time for them to come clean. If they ever took anything from the store, they could confess now, and all the store would ask is that the item be returned, but there would be no repercussions.
The kid admitted to taking a video game from the store six months before. The LP guys followed him home, where he got the game and gave it to them. They took him back to the store and started questioning him, asking if he was part of the theft ring. When he told him he wasn't, they became more aggressive, saying they didn't like his answers, and that he had better admit that he was part of the ring.
He woudln't. So, they had him arrested for stealing the video game six months before, even though they said that wouldn't happen.
Of course, my friend complained to the police about the tactics used by the store, but they just laughed and said that it happens all the time.
I'm not sure why I'm telling that story here, except that this whole amnisty thing reminds me of it.
