Man’s Card Repeatedly Declined at Store, So He Returns With Cop to Buy the Same Shoes

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From the archives: This story was last updated in May 2019.

What would you do if you were out shopping but your card kept declining when you tried to pay? Most of us would probably leave the store empty-handed and in embarrassment. But for one man, he went out and came back with a police officer, startling the shop employees.

Alicia Danielle, who was working at a pawnshop, had a customer who wanted to buy a pair of shoes, but his card kept getting declined. Danielle could see that the man needed the shoes badly, as the ones he had on his feet were “literally falling off.” Though the card declined, the man refused to give up and returned to the shop 15 minutes later.