Two people learned the hard way that leaving your wallet in a store is an invitation to disaster, according to reports filed over the last week with the Commerce Police Department.
A 24-year-old white male told police that while using his debit card to make a purchase at Presto’s convenience store, South Elm Street, he inadvertently laid his wallet aside and left it on the counter when he departed.
At home, he realized what he’d done and returned to the store to find the wallet gone.
The store manager let him look at the video surveillance system, which showed a white female behind him at the checkout. When he left, the woman asked the clerk about lottery tickets, and when the clerk turned away, the woman slipped the wallet off the counter and put it under her arm.
The wallet contained the victim’s driver’s license, a copy of his Social Security card, a credit card and other materials.
The perpetrator is described as a white female with dirty blond hair, who told the clerk “she was doing windows downtown,” the report said.
In the other incident, a 31-year-old white female reported that she left her wallet in a shopping cart at Tractor Supply Company, Homer Road.
When she realized what she’d done, the store had already closed. The woman said that the store manager told her an employee had seen “a couple checking out in possession of the wallet,” according to the report.
The victim asked to see the store’s security tapes, only to be told that the cameras in the store are fake.
The victim said she lost $800 in $100 bills, debit cards, a driver’s license and a Social Security card.
An addition to the report said that the victim called police later to inform the officer that the store manager had called to tell her the wallet was found near some bags of feed and that the manager wanted her to cancel the police report. There was no indication whether the contents of the wallet were intact. The officer said he turned the matter over to the investigative department.
They don't give a rat's a-- about their customers or they'd have a real survelance system. I say, thanks for outing these @#$%^.
Their bullsh--t security system is an insult. What's with being really cheap?
I don't believe that. You mean to tell me that the woman phoned the police department to tell them that the store manager contacted her to let her know the wallet was found amongst some bags of feed, and the first question that was asked was NOT, "Okay Miss; you say the wallet was recovered, well what about it's contents?" And furthermore, if we are reading the accurate version of this story above, that most certainly would've been the first question the victim asked the store manager when she phoned(you would think anyway); I mean surely, right? Yet there is no mention of these critical details and even if the store manager asked her to cancel the police report, I can't see the woman being too eager to do so UNLESS the $800 dollars and all her other belongings were found and safe in her hands(but if this was the case, a happy ending, there would be no reason to turn the matter over to the investigative department would there? IDK though?).