I keep setting off those store security detectors... why?

i'm not stealing anything. I set them off when I WALK IN. I'm used to it now.. .but omg... i'm afraid that they'll come and pat me down....

Does anyone know why this is happening? i don't have any metal in me...

Those security detectors are very poorly made, and tend to go off for a lot of people. When it happens, you are not required to stop. If they pat you down, stop you or in any way touch you, without evidence that you boosted something, sue them for assault, false imprisonment and anything else your lawyer can add.

Now, having said that, and assuming that you are a nice person who believes, as we are increasingly taught, that we should always obey anybody with delusions of authority, stop and let them look in your packages. Never let them touch you.

Then demand to see the manager and chew her/him/it out for not keeping their equipment in proper working order.

Cell phones have been known to set the alarms off on occasion.

Either that or you may have an electronic protection device hidden in your purse or something you wear that the store you bought it from forgot to deactivate it.

It if is the same store, it could be a problem with their systems (which happened to me once).

The same thing happened to me. At first I thought it was something I was wearing, then i thought my shoes, wallet etc. None. I even called a manufacturer of the security devices, they said if I did not have one of their chips the alarm should not go off.

This has happened to me twice, each time consisted of about 2 months straight of alarms going off. I do have a s.s screw in my body but I was told this would not do anything.

Strange.

maybe some of your clothing still contains one of those security sensors that the stores bury in their clothing?

maybe you stepped on one of the security tags and it's stuck to the bottom of your shoe?

maybe the security detectors are wolf whistling in the only way they know how?

Each time this happens do you have a common element (i.e., are you always carrying the same purse, etc.)? If yes, perhaps there's a security tag on it that wasn't taken off when you bought the item. Sometimes they're not in the obvious spots or are tiny.

Have you recently bought a new wallet? This has happened a few times to myself and some people I know. There's a thing like, hidden in there that sets off sensors all of the time

you got a sensor somewhere on you. clean out your purse and see if there is anything in there that contains a sensor in it.