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Tesco subject mother to humiliating search

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bkgirl · 17/08/2011 11:36

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8704861/Tesco-blogger-becomes-internet-sensation-after-false-shampoo-accusation.html

The poor lady, at the very least why can't a female carry out the search an do they have to scare the children with such heavy handed tactics? The apology and compensation is just pathetic. I think I will avoid the store completely.

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HerdOfTinyElephants · 18/08/2011 10:47

IIRC the thing about "assault and false imprisonment" is that you can refuse to accompany the security guard anywhere; if you refuse and he/she then physically compels you or otherwise restrains you and it later turns out that the theft they are concerned about did not take place (i.e. no one had stolen any shampoo) then you have a case for false imprisonment. If you accompany them voluntarily then that doesn't apply. Although that's based on very rusty remembrance of what I was told twenty years ago, so I wouldn't suggest anyone's relying on it.

She does sound like an arse on a number of counts.

I have occasionally stuck my phone on vibrate into my bra if I have no pockets and am out in the evening with the DCs at home with a sitter, though. But only in a dark room, and never in the supermarket.

missorinoco · 18/08/2011 10:56

HerdofTinyElephants - you only put your phone into your bra when in a dark room and onto vibrate? This thread could take a whole new turn. Grin

I once put a jobs list into the top of my bra at work when I had no pockets. Not sure my poor boss ever recovered.

HerdOfTinyElephants · 18/08/2011 11:02

If more women's clothes were made with sensible pockets there wouldn't be an issue, certainly.

In my younger days I once owned what was marketed as a "clubbing bra" that had a small pocket just big enough for a credit card and emergency £20 note sewn into the chest band on one side.

GenericNameChange · 18/08/2011 15:49

What a vacuous self important twat.

I googled her name and this came up. She thinks chubby girls (the pictures aren't even of chubby girls) are hilarious.

And apparently she is actually only 29. Hmm

Collaborate · 19/08/2011 07:31

Just returned to this thread. Would like to respond to those querying my earlier post.

I suspect Herd is like me recalling her law degree lectures from many years ago (hiding stuff in your bra? Were you in the Cabin club in Liverpool in December 1987? Long blonde hair?) Wink. Wondering whether the law has changed since then, I turned to trusty google and came up with this discussion between store security guards. Interesting.

www.securityoracle.com/security_forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1483

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