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What does it mean when a shop displays this notice? Isn't it up to the CPS? Do shops without such warnings just let you off?

Also, what kind of items have invisible things that make the barriers beep at the doors? In a bookshop, when they do the magic thing that prevents the beeping, are they just taking the piss? I mean, there's nothing there! Do they somehow magnetize the paper?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 18 January 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they put metal strips in some of the books. when they sell you the book, they put the book over a thing which will demagnetise the strip, if there is one there.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 18 January 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the signs that say "Bill posters will be prosecuted".who is Bill Posters?And what has he done that is so bad?

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 19 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

they put metal strips in some of the books. when they sell you the book, they put the book over a thing which will demagnetise the strip, if there is one there.

So they say. I tend to think that 99.9% of the time such anti-theft devices have about as much practical use as one of those flismy little locks that one puts on ones suitcase. They're just there to MINDFUCK you!!!!

― , Sunday, 19 January 2003 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Today at the bookstore the cashier had to de-mag my stack of crap about fifty times because it kept beeping and beeping and beeping (they have a detector at the register to make sure everything is properly untheftproofified) which got seriously annoying while waiting for my visa to clear

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 19 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, there is a very non-mindfucky strip usually embedded in the spine. This is in addition to chain bookstores slipping their own tags into expensive things / things that get stolen a lot.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 19 January 2003 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i find that usually [in the case of waterstones, anyway] they only tag the book at the top of every pile and the really expensive or much desired ones like harry potter, visual basic, etc. they never tag poetry. hardly ever.

― Dave (Dave), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting. More shoplifting tips please!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i once ordered a book mail order from Forbidden Planet (Mr Punch) and then took it to be signed the following week only to have the alarm go off on the way INTO the shop. most annoying.

also, the pass i had for the doors at work used to set off the Covent Garden Rough Trade Shop alarm (which is actually in the skate board shop above). luckily it seemed to be a regular thing so they dealt with it easily.

andy

― koogs, Monday, 20 January 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Shoplifiting Tip Number 402: Line a bag with tin foil, it stops the strip setting off the detector, apparently.
(My aunt used to be a store detective, I don't have a dodgy criminal past, honest...)

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Does that work? It sounds like something you'd try in a comic.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never tried it so I can neither confirm nor deny.

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

fuck these brazen cunts with a red hot fucking piston-propelled blunt instrument imo

― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

could have confronted them, didn't want to risk health

― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

― goaty (harbl), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

would be easy to do, thoroughly unethical and immoral tho' and i ain't biting the hand that feeds

― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

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