On March 28, 2024, a former Olympic athlete named Meaggan Pettipiece had her life completely flipped upside down by a traumatic experience with a Walmart self-checkout machine in Indiana. You really shouldn’t trust those stupid machines. The pimply-faced teenager or the slow geriatric woman scanning your groceries might be annoying, but at least they won’t ruin your life like a self-checkout machine can.
Pettipiece had collected all her items into her cart and made her way to the self-checkout lane. She scanned her items, which totaled $176. But some items in her cart didn’t get scanned, like ham and asparagus, which totaled $67. Walmart security called the cops, who then arrested Pettipiece for grand theft ham like she was some broke teenager.
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As the police officers were searching her, they found two blister packs of an antinausea medication called Zofran, along with three disposable vape…
