I'm a criminal - At least with my FOB

That's weird. I always carry my fob and never set off any alarms in stores.

 

Me neither and I ALWAYS seem to have my fob in my pocket (even when I'm driving another car).

 

I wouldn't think that should happen. Why don't you try carring the other FOB and see if it does the same thing. There may be a problem with some kind of spurious emissions from the FOB causing it to trigger the security systems. Did you ask the store security people if they had ever seen the problem before?

 

That only stops the honest people. I don't steal. I just keep walking when they go off. Either their systems messed up or they worker didn't take the secuirty thinggy off right. Its not worth my time because they buy crappy systems.

 

Never had the FOB set off the security alarm. By the way what does FOB stand for?

 

It's a word, not an acronym.

This is how it is defined on dictionary.com:

 

I'm sure that, legally, you have the right to keep walking as long as you've not stolen anything. But on the other hand, if a security guard were to run out and tackle you, the court might well rule that he had probable cause.

I set off the alarm once because the clerk had forgotten to remove the security device from one of my items. I went back in and she was very sweet and apologetic about it. Didn't hurt me to go back in. What's the point in getting hostile about such a little thing?

But my fob has never set off an alarm. In the absense of other similar reports I'd suspect a defective fob.

In the Oaxaca (Mexico) airport on my way to Guadalajara, about half the people that went through the security gate (including me) set off the alarm, and the guard just waved everybody through without checking anybody. This would have been '95 or '96.

 

I'm sorry. I don't get hostile. And if someone asked me to stop I would. It is that I know I did steal anything and it is their fault. So it is not worth my time to go through the hassel because of something that is their fault. I've had one go off several times. It happens often. During the winter I usually wear a long black trench coat. So I do stop when I have it on. At that point I undrestand that some guy in a trech coat sets off the alarm...ok that looks fishy.

 

That has happened to me several times at the local Ralphs. I never occured to me that it might be FOB related. I wasn't stealing anything and I never stop.

 

Not sure about the law in other places, but if a security guard were to tackle me going through a tripped security gate. He'd get charged with assault and then unlawlful confinement if they kept me there. Unless they see you actually steal something, they have no right to detain you or search you.