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Old 10-28-2024, 10:56 AM
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If it was a controlled substance the pharmacist may have not refilled it until the following month. Just keep that in mind.
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Old 10-28-2024, 11:03 AM
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She has your personal information.
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Old 10-28-2024, 11:54 AM
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Don't be silly. What could go wrong Dr. JECKYL? 🙂🤢👹
The pills are very distinctive and dissolve quickly when in the mouth.

I do not think they were tampered with but will check each one I use .
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She has your personal information.
And have the Good Samaritan's but not that of the pill thief. Even though he/she or they were just looking for a free dinner or lunch.
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If it was a controlled substance the pharmacist may have not refilled it until the following month. Just keep that in mind.
Not familiar with the letter of the law, but I'm pretty sure as long as you return the original pills, they would replace them as an even swap. Whether or not you would have to pay again, IDK, after all, it's not Publix's fault.
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Old 10-28-2024, 02:40 PM
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Not familiar with the letter of the law, but I'm pretty sure as long as you return the original pills, they would replace them as an even swap. Whether or not you would have to pay again, IDK, after all, it's not Publix's fault.

The pills are fine. Tampering with pills would be a very serious crime. I do not think any average Villager would alter medications and then drop them on the street with all the personal information there . Unless there were a lot more to the story. I do not have good reason to be paranoid.

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Old 10-29-2024, 04:49 AM
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Maybe while you were returning the cart a Bird or Squirrel got into the cart and took the bag and then dropped it.
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Old 10-29-2024, 05:46 AM
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First, I hope person was Good Samaritan
Second I would never meet a stranger anywhere but public place.
Third if you have a back of hair feelings about this person don’t put anything from them in your mouth. Remember the Tylenol poisoning from the 80’s.
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Old 10-29-2024, 05:52 AM
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And you don’t know that a”bad” person stole from your golf cart now. Wind, traffic and other factors could explain why your light cloth bag was off route. Be thankful someone was considered enough to care and make things right
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Old 10-29-2024, 07:06 AM
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I put my meds in my purse when the pharmacy gives them to me
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Old 10-29-2024, 07:24 AM
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This is a reality check.looks to be the norm.
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I went to a local Publix to get a prescription as well as a few groceries. I had maybe three bags of items as I was leaving. I got home but could not find the Publix pills. Checked the golf cart and the various bags but could not find the pills. I had returned the grocery cart and left the golf cart unattended.


I soon received a call from a Good Samaritan who said she had the pills and would like to arrange to give them to us.

I got her location and drove to her place which was on the opposite side of Publix from we live. You have to turn right from the Publix to get to her place .

She came out of her house to greet me carrying the Publix bag. It is one of those colored cloth ones. And in it were the pills and the various bags the Pharmacy gives you along with the instructions.

She said she found the bag in the street and turned right to get home. I had turned left and there was no practical reason the green bag would be on the opposite direction to the one I took.


I figured that a Bad Samaritan had taken the green bag out of the golf cart while I was returning the shopping cart . And then threw away the pills when he or she or they did not have any use for the bag they had snatched while my back was turned.


In the almost twenty years I have lived in the Villages I have never had someone steal stuff out of my golf cart while I was returning the shopping cart .
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Old 10-29-2024, 07:38 AM
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True .

There was a man in the passenger seat of a golf cart about ten feet from where I had been parked. He would have seen what happened unless he was taking a nap . Or ....

I do wish Publix would get some parking lot cameras, or, at least put up some signs saying the parking lot is being monitored even if that is a bluff.

Even if the cameras do not work they do deter as the thieves do not know that.
They do have parking lot surveillance cameras, at leat at the Mulberry location.
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Old 10-29-2024, 08:20 AM
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And you don’t know that a”bad” person stole from your golf cart now. Wind, traffic and other factors could explain why your light cloth bag was off route. Be thankful someone was considered enough to care and make things right
Pillnado?
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Old 10-29-2024, 08:58 AM
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Pillnado?
I had that golf cart door shut when leaving and the bag was found at least 30 feet from where I had turned to go in the other direction. It might have been further away when the Good Samaritan picked them up .
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