Store dressing rooms are meant to be a place where customers can try on clothes to see if they like the way they fit and look. While that’s how most people use fitting rooms, other people utilize them in less conventional ways.
There are plenty of horror stories out there about the misuse of fitting rooms. Some people mistake them for a toilet, while others use them as a place to experience a semi-private, yet semi-public hookup.
But one woman in California used a fitting room for an entirely different purpose…to help her get drunk.
Elysia Johnson was thirsty.
Maybe it was all that walking around the Target store in Lathrop, California, on Saturday.
After entering the store around 3:30 p.m., Johnson grabbed a shopping cart and a separate handbasket and made her way toward the dressing room where customers try on clothing for possible purchases.
It’s not known how many or which items might have caught her eye, but among those, she picked up inside the store was a six-pack of Stella Artois beer, according to Lathrop police.
Then she drank a second one. And a third. And a fourth. And a fifth. And, according to police, a sixth.
“She stayed in the dressing room for over an hour,” Lathrop police said in a news release posted to the agency’s Facebook page.
Johnson apparently had nothing to do, so she took her time downing the beers and spent over an hour in the dressing room before leaving with the merchandise that was never paid for, police said.
Comments on the department’s social media posts were largely sympathetic.
“She probably is having a rough time … give her a break,” one user said, “probably just needs help.”
“I don’t know what she’s going through in her life that led her to this point, but I hope she gets past it and turns things around,” wrote another.
“Very sad,” said one post. “But it could have been worse. At least it was a quality beer. STELLA!”
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Source: AWM