I'm going to assume you're on the up and up about this. I mean, what do have to cause doubt? Nothing, right? So, now that we've got all the uncomfortableness out of the way let's go.
I did a quick search and found this at the
Beginner's Guide to Shoplifting Funny how they have whole pages devoted to this shit, but, hey, what can you do?
On another page he suggests the simplist matter in which to remove the security tag is to stick it in the freezer to freeze the ink. Then you can just pull of the tag however you like and avoid spilling the whole mess on your shirt.
I don't have any personal shopping gone wrong experiences myself, but I was about 40 feet away from this poor lady who got trampled at Wal*Mart last year on "Black Friday." And, yes, it was because of a DVD player. She managed to grab one and then the crowd beat her down. Someone finally called the paramedics and they took her to the hospital. I was standing at a couple of clothes racks that weren't 40 feet away from the DVD pallet when it happened and I didn't see a thing. I didn't know what was going on either until the ambulance arrived. That's how crazy it was.
The sad thing about the entire venture is that she managed to grab a DVD player, but when she left in the ambulance the Wal*Mart guy in charge (suit, tie, general smirk) made her leave the player there at the service desk because she hadn't paid for it yet. Wait it gets worse. When she came back to claim it, they wanted to charge her full price for the thing instead of the $39 sales price because she didn't actually purchase it while it was on sale.
I hear she's got a nice big lawsuit against Wal*Mart, although, I seriously doubt she's ever going to see any money.