Local Man Arrested for Merchandise Tampering at Area Walmart
by Trailer
countrycalifornia.com
August 4, 2011
Local country fan Reginald Spears was arrested over the weekend for merchandise tampering at the new Super Walmart out on the bypass. The details of his infractions are unique, to say the least.
Third-shift electronics cashier Lena Johnston first noticed Spears rifling through the country CD section and filling a grocery cart with at least 100 discs before leaving the department. She thought he was just a rabid music fan until he returned 15 minutes later with the same cart and began slipping CDs back onto the shelves while looking around suspiciously.
Johnston walked over to Spears and asked if he”™d decided not to make the massive music purchase. Spears responded “Yeah, yeah uh, yes ma”™am” and began sweating profusely. He became spooked shortly afterwards and haphazardly threw the remainder of his CDs on the shelf before walking away.
Johnston investigated the country section and noticed that it was full of unwrapped, well-worn CDs that Spears had apparently brought from his home. Spears was apprehended by security, mostly without incident, before leaving the store.
“I looked on the shelf and where Rascal Flatts was supposed to be, that scruffy looking man had put Flatt & Smugs or something like that”¦ and where Taylor Swift had been, he”™d replaced it with Tanya Tucker. I guess he”™d stole all them new CDs and tried to replace “˜em with his old junk,” said a perplexed Johnston. Continue reading “Walmart Music Critic Faces Misdemeanor Charges”