An American couple who recently became Hawaii residents from California was arrested at a Safeway store, being accused of stealing two sandwiches that cost $2.5 each.
The couple with their 2-year-old daughter went shopping and ate the sandwiche while putting other groceries in a cart. They of course saved the wrapper to get scanned for ringing up later. They must have been too hungry to shop.
But they forgot to pay for the sandwiches, and that short amnesia resulted in a traumatic catastrophe for the daughter as well as the couple.
Safeway security guards detained the family until the arrival of police officers who booked the couple on charge of shoplifting. More surprisingly, a Child Welfare Service worker took the baby girl away. The girl had never been separated from her parents before, who cried her heart out in a state of separation phobia. Worse, the wife was carrying a 30-week-fetus.
Such procedure to get Child Welfare Services involved in is normal if a child is present when both parents are arrested, according to the police.
After the story broke out, a countless number of news agencies covered the incident, siding with the underdog couple and reporting such as:
1. American society has lost all common sense.
2. Safeway has no heart and no sympathy for human beings.
3. Corporations are evil.
Safeway security guards detained the family until the arrival of police officers who booked the couple on charge of shoplifting. More surprisingly, a Child Welfare Service worker took the baby girl away. The girl had never been separated from her parents before, who cried her heart out in a state of separation phobia. Worse, the wife was carrying a 30-week-fetus.
Such procedure to get Child Welfare Services involved in is normal if a child is present when both parents are arrested, according to the police.
After the story broke out, a countless number of news agencies covered the incident, siding with the underdog couple and reporting such as:
1. American society has lost all common sense.
2. Safeway has no heart and no sympathy for human beings.
3. Corporations are evil.
No doubt that the case has newsworthiness, armed with tearful, sympathetic, heartbroken, poignant, and touching elements.
Not even single report, however, shed spotlight on some shoppers' lawless shopping behavior: eating stuff at grocery stores before buying it, and then they say when they get caught, "I forgot."
There no longer exists such as objective journalism.
Not even single report, however, shed spotlight on some shoppers' lawless shopping behavior: eating stuff at grocery stores before buying it, and then they say when they get caught, "I forgot."
There no longer exists such as objective journalism.
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