Former Olympian turned softball coach's life is destroyed after she forgot to scan asparagus and ham at self checkout

A erstwhile Olympian has spoken astir however her beingness was destroyed aft she forgot to scan asparagus and ham astatine a Walmart self-checkout machine.

Canadian jock Meaggan Pettipiece, 48, was arrested connected March 28 successful Indiana for theft, possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance.

The charges person since been dropped, but Pettipiece mislaid her prestigious occupation arsenic a effect and says her vocation and estimation person been ruined. 

Her downfall began aft Walmart information reported that the US assemblage softball manager had failed to scan a mates of nutrient items during a market haul astatine a self-checkout machine. 

Police searched Pettipiece and recovered 3 disposable vapes successful her purse, on with 2 unopened blister packs containing anti-nausea medicine Zofran.  

The charges were dropped against the jock from Blenheim, Ontario connected September 19 - but she said the incidental 'changed everything'. 

'It is bittersweet,' Pettipiece told National Post. 'I'm happy, obviously, the charges were dismissed. 

'The bittersweet portion is the harm it did to my career. It has changed everything successful my life.

'It's been 5 months, a surviving nightmare. I mislaid my career, I mislaid my job, the beingness I was gathering and it's been truly difficult.' 

Pettipiece resigned arsenic caput manager of the NCAA Division 1 softball squad astatine Valparaiso University successful Indiana soon aft the Walmart incident. 

Police detained the softball manager astatine the supermarket and recovered that $67 worthy of items, including asparagus and ham, had not been scanned. 

She paid for different items worthy $167, according to section quality reports from March. 

It was during the apprehension and consequent hunt of Pettipiece that constabulary uncovered the vapes and nausea medication. 

'It was truthful ridiculous,' Pettipiece said, adding that she didn't recognize the self-checkout scanner hadn't work immoderate of the items. 

The erstwhile jock added that the vapes did not incorporate nicotine oregon THC, and the pills were a medicine belonging to an adjunct manager who asked her to look aft them erstwhile they headed to a softball game. 

'We some forgot astir them,' she said. 

The Valparaiso Beacons softball squad confirmed that Pettipiece resigned connected April 1. 

'The softball assemblage is simply a tightknit radical and it (the news) went done similar wildfire,' Pettipiece told National Post.

'You truly bash larn who the radical are that truly judge successful you and spot you and are genuinely a person for you.'

In the aftermath of her arrest, the tribunal proceedings were delayed, until her lawyer's petition for a dismissal was approved. 

Judges reviewed Pettipiece's relationship of the incident, impervious of her assistant’s medicine and quality notation letters earlier coming to the decision.

Pettipiece played softball for Canada astatine the 2000 Sydney Games and was an alternate for the 2004 Olympic team.