Waste money. Live worse. Wal-Mart.

Another day, another instance of Wal-Mart behaving as gutlessly as ever.

In Houston, a college student went to Wal-Mart to cash some money orders. The cash-strapped student had received the Wal-Mart money orders when she sold her car to pay for her education.

What happened when she tried cashing the orders? Why, Wal-Fart totally lost its shit. The store promptly accused her of passing bogus money orders and had her arrested for felony forgery.

The money orders were not only perfectly valid but had been issued by Wal-Mart!

As a result of this utterly bogus forgery charge, the young woman (who is a criminal justice major) was jailed for 2 days.

But that wasn't all! After the jail stay, Wal-Mart mailed her a letter accusing her of shoplifting and demanding that she pay the store $200.

Or else what? That letter is probably enough to have Wal-Mart charged with racketeering, I hope you realize. (The retail giant's suppression of unions is more than enough for a racketeering charge.)

Talk about corporatism being out of control! It's bad enough for a store to baselessly accuse someone of forging a money order. It's worse for the authorities to actually take someone to jail for what's clearly a sham accusation.

That's the world of Wal-Mart, I guess.

(Source: http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080610_tj_walmartforgery.1d77d917.html)