Lots of restaurant operating systems will have "reprint" or something similar on copies printed after the first set. Assuming that, it could be very easy to sort through the receipts quickly and find the potentially suspect ones. Since we're making assumptions.
As to the sharing of information, our county's newspaper comes out once a week. It has an entire page dedicated to records. Every speeding ticket issued that week is in it. Your name and the speed you were going, in black and white. Every ambulance call, complete with the address of the house they went to is in it. Every marriage license issued, everyone who filed for divorce, every bad check written with amount and place you wrote the check to. Name changes, actual crimes, protection orders issued, child support orders. Omg, everything. It's all in the records section every single week. So no, nothing is secret in small towns.
My BFF from elem - H.S. would go spend some of her summers in her grandma's hometown. Pop 3000ish? She would mail me the newspaper clippings of the police blotter and they were JUST like this. "Mrs. Johnathan Rossmans reported someone pointing a laser light in her bedroom window on the evening of April 3rd". "Mr Bryan Stowe's hardward shop on Sycamore Ave was investigated on April 5th for a broken window. Mr James Jacks accidentally misfired a .22 hand gun inside the storefront and broke out the window. He was fined $17 for illegal discharge of a firearm and will have to pay Mr Stowe to repair the window".
I was shocked people found this newsworthy but I did end up going on one of these trips when we were 16. HOLY CRAP there was nothing to do there.
As to the sharing of information, our county's newspaper comes out once a week. It has an entire page dedicated to records. Every speeding ticket issued that week is in it. Your name and the speed you were going, in black and white. Every ambulance call, complete with the address of the house they went to is in it. Every marriage license issued, everyone who filed for divorce, every bad check written with amount and place you wrote the check to. Name changes, actual crimes, protection orders issued, child support orders. Omg, everything. It's all in the records section every single week. So no, nothing is secret in small towns.
My BFF from elem - H.S. would go spend some of her summers in her grandma's hometown. Pop 3000ish? She would mail me the newspaper clippings of the police blotter and they were JUST like this. "Mrs. Johnathan Rossmans reported someone pointing a laser light in her bedroom window on the evening of April 3rd". "Mr Bryan Stowe's hardward shop on Sycamore Ave was investigated on April 5th for a broken window. Mr James Jacks accidentally misfired a .22 hand gun inside the storefront and broke out the window. He was fined $17 for illegal discharge of a firearm and will have to pay Mr Stowe to repair the window".
I was shocked people found this newsworthy but I did end up going on one of these trips when we were 16. HOLY CRAP there was nothing to do there.
When we lived in CT, there was a teeny town in Litchfield county whose blotter looked like this. I went looking online for info about the town and found the police blotter online. One was, I shit you not, "Mr Pierce heard a noise outside his window and called the police. Turns out it was raccoons getting into his trash."
Post by gibbinator on May 12, 2016 18:38:08 GMT -5
This reminds me of my home town's newspaper. The most memorable police call was something like "RCMP called to investigate suspicious package on roadside at x address. Package turned out to be carrots". The police report section only got printed once a month because the population was only around 1000.
Yeah guys, small towns are a special breed. There are no secrets.
I know I'm late to the game, but as a point of clarification- theft is theft. At least in CA and under federal law, there are not normally more serious consequences for forging someone's signature to steal $5 than there are for just stealing the $5.00. I mean, maybe the law is different in other states, and the forgery can satisfy other elements and stuff,, but it's really not like the law views forgery as some special subset of theft that's especially heinous. All theft is considered moral turpitude.
Also, I'm still on team calling the police was excessive.
Post by cookiemdough on May 13, 2016 5:17:22 GMT -5
This article showed up in my feed. I think it gives some perspective why I am somewhat wary of police involvement. Yes, it does mean that I am going out on a limb and assuming an adult pizza driver with two kids is likely not middle class. If she is rich and doing it for funsies then of course the article below would not apply.