Best Buy Employee Canned for Tackling Laptop Thief

At most freehanded retail merchant , shoplifters are allowed to run free , because any attempt to adjoin them brings up the terrifying prospect of a lawsuit . But a Montana Best Buy employee was n’t have got that , taking down a stealer . Now he ’s fired .

The newly - unemployed computer section here , 51 - year - old Roger Kline , jump into natural process as the thief was about to sprint out of the store : “ As he stand up , I grabbed a detention of him and throw him to the background . ” Kline ’s manager told him he had to get off the dented outlaw , which he did — letting a Best Buy shopper take over the job of keeping him pinned until fuzz rolled up .

Kline then spent the next month in limbo , knowing he ’d likely be fired for wittingly plunder the store ’s insurance of shoplifting non - intervention . So what go him ? “ Someone steal from you , you hold on them , ” Kline explains . “ That ’s the way I was brought up . I feel like the hombre was stealing from me , not just the company . I guess I took it a little personal when I examine the guy run out of the store with two calculator . ” Bummer . [ billing Gazette ]

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