'It was my personal bag and it wasn't for sale': Shoplifting Karen claims employee's handbag is hers after employee tells her she cannot purchase it

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    Rectangle - "She tells [the cops] that it's HER bag"
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    Font - Entitled customer goes nuts because we won't sell her MY purse Medium So for the last dozen years or so I have been carrying this gorgeous vintage designer bag I found online (I think I bought it in 2010). I love it and I will carry it until it falls apart. I get a ton of compliments on it. And it also caused this one crazy story.
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    Font - I spent 3 years working in an Ivy League college town upscale clothing boutique that catered to wealthy college students and their parents and tourists. We didn't sell anything like this bag but I suppose I can see where it would have fit in with the things we did sell.
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    Font - One afternoon I was getting ready to leave for my lunch break and I had put this vintage bag on the counter while I was putting my coat on. An expensively dressed woman who had just walked up to the counter picked up my bag and asked my co-worker who was at the register how much it was. I walked over and politely took it from her and said it was my personal bag and it wasn't for sale.
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    Font - She literally snatched it out of my hands and WENT OFF on both of us. The bag was sitting on the counter, it had to be for sale. It was obviously much too fancy and expensive a bag for a retail loser to own and oh, didn't we just wish we were Ivy League students like her precious babies. Which was actually funny because I didn't work there because I needed the money, I worked there as a favor to the owner who was a friend of the family, basically as a fill-in for one of her full time empl
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    Font - So yadda yadda yadda, this woman just kept screaming at us. She wanted that bag so badly! She absolutely refused to believe it belonged to me. Started screaming about wanting to see the manager or the owner, and didn't believe my co-worker when she informed the woman that she WAS the store manager. We finally told her if she didn't give me back my bag and leave the store we were going to call the police. She refused, so police were called.
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    Font - Police get there, entitled woman gets even worse and doubles down on her particular form of insanity. She tells them that it's HER bag and she'd brought it in with her and that WE were trying to steal it from HER. The cop took the bag away from her and opened it up and dumped all the contents on the counter. My cell phone, which of course I knew the passcode to and she didn't. Prescription medication bottles in my name. My checkbook.
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    Font - And everything else I carried on a daily basis. How she had failed to recognize just from the weight of the bag that it had stuff in it I don't know. You could see the fear creeping into her face as the cop came up with one item after another that proved the bag was mine. When he got to my wallet and pulled out what was clearly my license the woman jerked away from the second cop who had a hand on her arm and pretty much ran out of the store. I kind of wish they had gone after her but app
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    Font - She wasn't the only crazy entitled customer we ever got, but she was one of the most memorable. 189 Comments
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    Font - Still-Season 4 days ago Well now I gotta see this bag! 613 Reply Share
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    Font - There will be unforeseen sequent apathy_or_empathy 4 days ago The double-downers always blow my mind. I'm shocked she stayed long enough to see the whole cops thing through, that usually sends them running. Must be one O of a purse. 189 Reply Share ...
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    Font - techieguyjames 4 days ago From big box retail to fast f... It was obviously much too fancy and expensive a bag for a retail loser to own and oh, didn't we just wish we were Ivy League students like her precious babies. The absolute gall.
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    Font - dennismullen12. 4 days ago I would have chased her out of the store myself if the cops weren't willing to. You let her get away with this and she's just going to do it to another retail worker next week.
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    Font - 410 foxylady315 OP. 3 days ago Well except that this happened over a decade ago now. I was just thinking about it yesterday because I happened to be chatting with one of my coworkers from back then. The store hasn't even been in business since 2014 when the owner decided to finally retire at 70 years old.
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    Font - 784 mrsdoubleu 3 days ago Wouldn't it have been easier to just open it and show her your ID and stuff before calling the cops?
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    Font - AshuraSpeakman 3 days ago I'm always low key amazed at how people will edit reality in their brain to be what they want, even when it's crashing down around their ears. A Narnia you can't make accessible.
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    Font - Background_Newt3594. 3 days ago You should have at least had them go after her and tell her that she was not to set foot in the store again and would be arrested for trespassing if she did.

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