If she didn't leave the house how could she steal anything? It'd all still be inside...
If you take an object and put it in your pocket (or purse), you can be arrested in a store. You don't need to physically leave the store. Same would go for homes.
No you can't, actually. You have to wait until that person walks out the door before you can arrest him.
Many clerks and security personnel will not, however, apprehend a suspected thief until that person has actually left the store. The reason is not that they lack justification before that moment, as just explained. Instead, they simply want an open-and-shut case. It will be difficult to argue that one intended to pay for the goods when one has walked out without doing so; on the other hand, defendants who are apprehended pre-exit may be able to convince the jury that their actions were consistent with an intent to eventually pay for the merchandise before leaving the store.
And as soon as they get away with it you are liable for a 'false' arrest, since you just proved they didn't do anything wrong in court. You want proof? Wait until they're out the door.
See this is what really confuses me, how do you prevent people from just wandering in, eating stuff, and leaving? It can't be a big problem or they would have to have more security etc. I know dinning and dashing is a thing, and I have seen people arrested for it (although again, not exactly sure how they can really protect themselves from it), but at least in that case they have a ticket order, and plates with food that was eaten etc, as proof.
For dinning and dashing though, why wouldn't people just get up to use the restroom etc, and then leave from there, especially if they didn't finish all the food etc? I would imagine it's almost impossible to actually stop people from doing that, but then you have like 200+ people in my area standing around with signs asking for money for food etc.
So yeah, why would they stand for the whole day, begging for food, if they could literally just go into any resteraunt, order food, eat it, then leave without paying.
I for instance often just leave my money on the table and leave without waiting for someone to come (since I don't want change anyway), never once have I been asked to wait or anything.
I could probably have not paid for like 80% of the meals I have had and gotten away with it, just by not actually leaving money behind (I'm impatient and when I'm done eating I don't like sitting in front of dirty plates).
There has to be SOMETHING that prevents this from happening regularly. I mean, even if you went to jail for a night or two or something, if you g ot a super delicious steak dinner with lobster/shrimp etc out of it....I could see alot of homeless people being down for that.
There is. You get banned from the establishment and they will no longer serve you, plus they will probably call the police to have you arrested for your prior crime. Unless you literally never stay very long in one place and always go to a different restaurant each time you eat you will run out of places to dine and dash from pretty quick. ---
Que sera, sera. Whatever happens, happens. ...and he was never heard from again.