Taking pictures in a high crime area at night is a good enough reason for me. I'm glad when they are on top of things and ask.@walesmaven wrote:
Police would have to convince me that they had a need to know, not just tell me they wanted to know why I was there. Private security guards, not so much !!!
@teriraia wrote:
If a police officer approached me I would have no problem telling him I was on a mystery shop and would happily show him the paperwork.
@Jeffpeds1 wrote:
@teriraia wrote:
If a police officer approached me I would have no problem telling him I was on a mystery shop and would happily show him the paperwork.
The best response on the entire thread.
@thefoxbox wrote:
I was at a testing facility shop where I was required to cheat... and the employee threatened to call the police on me. Had they arrived, I most certainly would have told the officer (and only the officer) that I was being paid to be there.
@thefoxbox wrote:
I was at a testing facility shop where I was required to cheat... and the employee threatened to call the police on me. Had they arrived, I most certainly would have told the officer (and only the officer) that I was being paid to be there.
That's funny. That's actually what I had written down was a grocery list. I tried my best to remain calm... I told her, why are you wasting everyone's time trying to call the police? She finally gave me my ID back and gave me the key to get my stuff... after ten minutes of holding it hostage. Yeah, never going to do one of those again.@retrodaddy wrote:
@thefoxbox wrote:
I was at a testing facility shop where I was required to cheat... and the employee threatened to call the police on me. Had they arrived, I most certainly would have told the officer (and only the officer) that I was being paid to be there.
That's funny. I've done the same scenario, and the test center folks were very courteous and calm with me after I was busted.
I wonder on what charge the employee thought you might be arrested or removed from premises. Smuggling grocery lists?
@thefoxbox wrote:
That's funny. That's actually what I had written down was a grocery list. I tried my best to remain calm... I told her, why are you wasting everyone's time trying to call the police? She finally gave me my ID back and gave me the key to get my stuff... after ten minutes of holding it hostage. Yeah, never going to do one of those again.@retrodaddy wrote:
@thefoxbox wrote:
I was at a testing facility shop where I was required to cheat... and the employee threatened to call the police on me. Had they arrived, I most certainly would have told the officer (and only the officer) that I was being paid to be there.
That's funny. I've done the same scenario, and the test center folks were very courteous and calm with me after I was busted.
I wonder on what charge the employee thought you might be arrested or removed from premises. Smuggling grocery lists?
I've done these before where I didn't have to act like a cheat, and everyone was pleasant before. Honestly, everyone was pleasant except the one woman freaking out. She was frantically reading through a PDF file on her computer like she had never encountered the situation before. It was pretty disturbing.@retrodaddy wrote:
@thefoxbox wrote:
That's funny. That's actually what I had written down was a grocery list. I tried my best to remain calm... I told her, why are you wasting everyone's time trying to call the police? She finally gave me my ID back and gave me the key to get my stuff... after ten minutes of holding it hostage. Yeah, never going to do one of those again.@retrodaddy wrote:
@thefoxbox wrote:
I was at a testing facility shop where I was required to cheat... and the employee threatened to call the police on me. Had they arrived, I most certainly would have told the officer (and only the officer) that I was being paid to be there.
That's funny. I've done the same scenario, and the test center folks were very courteous and calm with me after I was busted.
I wonder on what charge the employee thought you might be arrested or removed from premises. Smuggling grocery lists?
I've done this shop with and without the cheating scenario. I've also taken an exam locally at a location I didn't shop. At all three locations the personnel were very professional. I'm not gonna try to talk you into doing that shop again, but I'm very surprised an employee wigged out on you like that.
Most companies have private parking lots. It’s rare for the parking lots to be public, which is why police officers cannot issue citations for people who run stop signs or speed in those parking lots.@eodermatt wrote:
If you were standing on the sidewalk, not on private property, no one has the right to know why you're taking photographs except for a judge in court or Congress in a hearing. You have a First Amendment right to take photographs or record video in public. Period.
@thefoxbox wrote:
Most companies have private parking lots. It’s rare for the parking lots to be public, which is why police officers cannot issue citations for people who run stop signs or speed in those parking lots.@eodermatt wrote:
If you were standing on the sidewalk, not on private property, no one has the right to know why you're taking photographs except for a judge in court or Congress in a hearing. You have a First Amendment right to take photographs or record video in public. Period.
if on the sidewalk in front of the building between the parking lot and the store that is private property. Either way it isn’t illegal to take a photo in public and courts have defended people who take photographs in public places with no expectation of privacy for anyone.@dawnhu wrote:
It was a parking lot of a grocery store..but I was on the sidewalk????