Walmart Humiliates Houston College Student, Then Bills Her For It

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Such was the fate that befell Texas Southern University student Nitra Gipson, who made the noble decision to sell her car in order to pay for her final two terms at school. Having been paid with perfectly valid Wal-Mart money orders ("good as cash", according to the company), Gipson went over to her neighborhood big box store and attempted to convert the checks into legal tender.

The store manager, suspicions raised due to the large amount of currency being converted, called shenanigans and contacted the police. Gipson attempted in vain to prove that the money orders were authentic; the implacable manager refused to listen and, in an absurdly depressing turn of events, Gipson was arrested and slapped with a felony forgery charge.

Only two days later was she finally released from jail, after submitting the original purchase receipts used to acquire the money orders.

"Humiliating is not the word for it," said Gipson to KHOU. "I was horrified. I think they singled me out because of the amount of money that it was and (thought) I was trying to get over on them."

Despite her already harrowing ordeal, Wal-Mart still wasn't done exacting revenge on its former customer: Gipson later received a bill in the mail from the company demanding a $200 payment to remedy the "shoplifting" charge.

Company officials are said to be "looking into the case."

In other news, another Texas Wal-Mart employee recently stabbed a teenage customer half a dozen times in the face, though it appears this was a personal conflict over a girl.