Canadian Tire False Handcuffing

[[Jaysa]] was handcuffed and falsely accused of a crime that she didn't commit. They thought she stole the safe when she literally paid for it. She had disassociated walking past the security guard, and when she heard screaming, had a traumatic flashback to her mother screaming at her. [[Jaysa]] was walked into a side room where she was harshly interrogated. They said if the police was there they would have shot her dead. They said they would post her photo on the wall and ban her from coming to the store. They looked through her wallet and eventually found the receipt and let her go.

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Today Jan 18 2024 before 9:25 PM I was handcuffed and falsely accused for a crime that I did not commit. They found out I was innocent and released me telling me “it’s all good”, yet it was a traumatic experience. They thought I stole a safe, but I literally paid for it. I type this as I am safe at home. Let me explain.

I went to Canadian Tire and asked a worker there where I can find a safe. They pointed me to the section of aisles where I can get one. I then was thinking between one of a smaller vs a larger size and chose the larger sized one.

I was carrying this to the aisle and then heard a voice saying “brother” I think to me. And this triggered my gender dysphoria, so I walked past ignoring it. I was scared because, a while back, I went to this Canadian Tire and was pressured into getting a Canadian Tire Credit Card. The worker tried to get me to use the credit card to buy items before, but I didn’t want to have so much debt, since I just got a TD Credit Card that was grey recently, so I did not put the payment on the Canadian Tire Credit Card.

I went to the check out and I tried to use my TD Credit Card, but it did not work, so I used my TD Debit Card instead and the transaction was successful. I paid for the only item that I bought from Canadian Tire at that visit today, this safe. And then I walked out. And then all of a sudden I heard shouting.

I think my body got scared because of the abuse that my mother put me through, where she would yell at me. Like how I ran away from her before and went homeless, I was suddenly running as I was outside of the store in the snow. And then I had a person wrap themselves around me and I noticed that it was a security guard, I did not resist now and I stopped. I let them walk me back to the store where they brought me into a room on the side and closed the door.

I put out my hands and they got out shiny metallic grey looking handcuffs and put them on me. In my black winter jacket I was standing up while handcuffed.

There was another person, who had access to a computer with a set of videos showing what looked like different security camera angles. And they began to ask me questions. I let them look through my black bag.

I was asked if I had anything in my pockets, so I checked them. And then the security guard pulled out garbage from my left jacket pocket and I explained to them that this was litter that I picked up from outside. Sometimes when I go from place to place in the cold, I like to pick up garbage I see outdoors and throw them in the garbage.

They also saw a lightly pastel purplish pinkish T-Shirt inside my bag. This was Dept/Rayon 14 Style 045907 Type 8 Cat 0206 Size/Taille W1223. This was a T-Shirt for women that I had bought for myself since I am a trans woman.

“Stealing is stealing” explained the computer person, who told me that they would let me go, but that they could have called the police. And they told me to never come back to this store and that if I did it would be trespassing.

At one point they had found the receipt which was for Canadian Tire. It said REG #: 6 01/18/2024 20:00:37 TRANS #: 185 Operator #: 304 Float: 001

046-3522-2 MED FIRE CHST 0 $ 79.99

SUBTOTAL $ 79.99

5% GST $ 4.00

7% RST $ 5.60

T O T A L $ 89.59

DEBIT CARD #: [i censor this here]

CHIP CARD

Approval #: 00 238438 001

DEBIT TEND $ 89.59

DEBIT TEND $ 0.00

CHANGE $ 0.00

My CT ‘Money’ Account #: [i censor this here]

And other information.

The item was a SentrySafe Medium Chest Fire + water protection for letter-size papers. CHW20101

The computer person looked through my wallet and found my full Driver’s license and took it out of the slot. At one point I was told that I think they would have a photo of me.

Then the security guard wanted to talk to the computer person outside of the room, so I waited still handcuffed inside as they talked outside. I think I overheard one of them say something about a “false arrest”.

So then they both came back inside. At one point during this the computer guard saw that I had another item, which was a UGREEN USB External Stereo Sound Adapter in a white and green box. They thought I had two items, but I got this at Memory Express. I remember asking a worker at Memory Express for this and they showed me where it is. I wanted this for my remote call center work because my laptop it looks like it only has one headphone jack, but I might need to have a headphone jack for my headphone and another jack for my microphone, since I was listening to the Zoom Meeting I was in today with the speaker playing.

They told me that there would be other people who would try to steal things from their store. So when they saw me run they assumed I was stealing something, even though I was not. Apparently they asked to see my receipt, but I think because my mind was so negatively affected by the intense gender dysphoria that I was reminded of that I don’t specifically remember being asked to show my receipt. I didn’t even remember really seeing the security guard until I was outside in the snow and they were wrapped around me.

They said that it was bad to run and I agreed. I admit that running was a mistake on my part. The security guard asked me information about myself. I explained that my I was born here, that my father was born here and that my mother immigrated from the Philippines. This scares me though, because it felt like I was being controlled by my trauma.

I explained to them about how I was scared about the Canadian Tire Credit Card. I told them that my mother was abusing me and that I was scared and called the police. The computer person said that they were sorry. I asked about the trespassing thing and they said that it was all good. They saw my physical receipt which was proof that I purchased this item and that I did not steal it. The tension from the scene had lifted and I was cleared from this false accusation of the sin of stealing. I told them how scared I was while handcuffed.

At one point I told them that I needed therapy. [Backstory: The reason why I got this safe is that, since I’m planning to do DIY HRT I wanted a safe place to store medical supplies. My mother has come into my room and taken my stuff so I used a locking thing that I bought from this same Canadian Tire before, but I was told by a friend on Discord that there was some issues with the lock. ]. At one point I was explained that if this were the police then they could just shoot so I got lucky here.

The security guard then had a metallic key and used it to unlock the handcuffs and then removed the handcuffs from me.

I thanked them and I wish them a good day. And then I grabbed the safe and I walked outside of the store.

If I were to give advice, it’s to please have a printed receipt. I was incredibly lucky that I got a printed receipt here, it served as proof that I bought the item and saved me.