Walmart security tries to take baby away from Mom...? (correct link)

[FormerDittoHead]

...and you thought asking to see your receipt was intrusive!

MySpace entry:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=48433983&blogID=308642870

"...The next thing I know a security guard is asking me to hand him Ava. Evidentially someone in the store had their baby in a cart and someone rolled the cart away. Moron parent if you ask me if someone can just roll your child away from you and now you've misplaced your baby..."
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"They are trying to tell me that Ava is not my child. She started fussing so I began taking her out of the seat. The whole time this security guard is asking me to "give him the baby". FUCK YOU! There was no way I was handing her over! I tried to walk away, leaving her car seat, the diaper bag, even my wallet...they blocked me!..."

[uppityperson]

1. bad link.

[FormerDittoHead]

12. Link now correct - sorry n/t

[NV Whino]

2. Oh boy

Can I hide all future threads on this topic right now?

[Beaverhausen]

3. BOYCOTT WALMART.

oh wait, we already do.

[1monster]

4. Link is bad. Here is the correct link. (take the "Original" off the end of the linnk)

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=48433983&blogID=308642870

[MonkeyFunk]

5. So...

a baby was missing in the store, and a customer tried to leave with a baby about the same age as the missing baby? And she got offended when she was stopped?

Stupid stupid woman.

[1monster]

6. Read the article. The woman didn't even know that a baby was missing.

Other mothers with babies were allowed to leave.

If, indeed, there was a suspected kidnapping, the whole store should have been locked down, not just one mother with a baby.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. I did read it

nowhere do I see a reference to other people with children leaving.

If a one-year old white girl was missing, and somebody tried to leave the store with a one-year white girl, the store was right to stop her.

[uppityperson]

14. Were they right in demanding she hand over her baby?

There is a right way and a wrong way. This was the wrong way. That is the issue.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. I'd like to know more

about what actually happened. Right now all we have is her near-hysterical account.

[uppityperson]

21. Did you read her comments later in the comment area?

[1monster]

19. Read further down in the comments section. She told more of the story

there. And that is where she stated that other mothers with babies were allowed to leave.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Uh, I'd read her post before calling her stupid. nt

[MonkeyFunk]

9. I did read it

before calling her stupid.

[uppityperson]

13. It was HOW they did it, trying to TAKE the baby.

How about taking her and the baby, NOT trying to take the baby. I won't snark. Am tempted, but won't.

[Warpy]

10. There was a right way to do that and a wrong way to do that

and "gimme the baby" was the wrong way!

A security guard worth his minimum wage paycheck should have explained that there was a baby missing in the store, and could she please wait until the mom determined that baby wasn't hers?

I think most moms will respond well to that since most moms can identify with the fear of having your child stolen.

I hope the dummy who "lost" the baby got it back and learned a very hard lesson in how to be more careful.

[KingFlorez]

11. The whole thing was approached in the wrong way

It is not that hard to comprehend from that situation was handled wrong, yet you call the woman stupid.

[gollygee]

15. She got offended when some rent-a-cop tried to take her baby away from her

If they thought she'd kidnapped a baby, they should have called the police. If they wanted the mom who lost her baby to take a look at that one, they should have diplomatically asked her to stay. Most moms will understand something like, "A mom with a baby the same age as yours has lost her baby in the store, so we need moms with babies that age to wait in the store for a few minutes." Most moms will freak out from here to next week if someone tries to grab their babies away from them. This is understandable and very predictable.

[opihimoimoi]

16. I guess DIPLOMACY was not on his list of classes in school....forget good communication...

[gollygee]

17. Diplomacy should have been part of his training by Wal-Mart

which is why Wal-Mart was quick to try to diffuse the situation by giving the woman her items without her paying for them- they know they didn't train well enough and that's what caused the problem.

[opihimoimoi]

20. Then they have to fire his manager...lol