Tasting the grapes was not what got her arrested, the officer merely asked her to stop. It was not giving the proper respect to a law enforcement officer(big no no) and assaulting the officer (supreme no no, dont ask me how I know) that landed her a stay in jail. Often times one needs to be incarcerated to learn the humilty needed just to be an ordinary law abiding citizen instead of running around behaving like a rabid howler monkey on crack.

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I better watch my back next time before muching on the grapes! Guilty? You bet.

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It sounds like she deserved a ton more than something as simple as 4th degree assault.

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Rabid howler monkey on crack? Stephen, you've made me laugh out loud. A nice way to say goodnight!

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The problem is that grapes, like other produce, are sold by weight... so if you eat them all before you get to the checkout, the cashier has no way to charge you. So it is theft.

When I was a cashier, some lady brought me a banana peel and told me her kid was starving and so she gave the banana to him. Okay...I really couldn't charge her for the banana since I didn't have the accurate weight! If you or your kid is starving, open something that's charged by UPC, like a box of crackers.

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I saw what sounds like the opposite of this woman. A (possibly drunk) man was waving a handful of cherry stones at the cashier and insisting that he pay for the (6 or so) cherries he'd eaten. It was a busy Saturday morning and a line was building up, so she was trying to tell him to just let it go, but he was insisting that no, it would be stealing if he didn't pay for them. The argument got quite heated, and in the end they had to get security to throw him out.

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People who eat food before they pay for it is one of my biggest pet peeves. As a former grocery store peon, I can't even remotely count the number of times I've been handed empty bags; seen people letting their kid eat bananas, apples, or grapes; or picked up empty wrappers all over the store. It was in a poor area, so a lot of people would eat half of something and then hide it on a shelf. I guess some people think stealing is only when you remove it from the store...as opposed to putting it in your belly. *rolls eyes*

Many of the HEBs and HEB Central Markets around me now have special scales that generate a price tag. You weigh your food, stick in the code, and generate a tag to stick on your produce or bulk items. Totally on the honor code though; dishonest people could easily grab organic food and label it with the cheaper versions.

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Wow, my mom always did this to see if they were sweet!

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