A California woman told the Internet exactly how much she claims to have stolen from Target, and somehow that’s not even the strangest part of her video. What she says next about walking into a different Target, one she is technically still allowed in, is what’s really bizarre.
The woman, who posts under the TikTok handle @sxarrrollls, says she is currently banned from every Target location in Los Angeles County, California, and claims she is serving overlapping probation sentences tied to two separate theft cases involving the retailer.
In the video, she claims her total haul from a single Target location adds up to roughly $500,000 stolen over three years, and says her restitution on the more recent case is somewhere around $200,000. She admits she isn’t sure whether she actually owes it.
She explains the bans stack on top of each other – one year for the earlier case, another year tacked on for the newer one – meaning she is looking at roughly two years total before she can legally set foot in an LA County Target again. None of these figures have been independently verified, and the video represents her own account of her legal situation.
The bulk of the video, though, isn’t about the theft itself. It’s about what happened afterward. She says she recently visited a Target outside LA County, where she isn’t banned, and was overcome with nerves the moment she spotted a loss prevention employee near the entrance.
She described years of run-ins with Target’s loss prevention staff, admitting that “they all expletive hate me, for good reason.”
Yet being back inside a Target apparently felt almost nostalgic. She described smelling the store, getting excited, and repeatedly reminding herself that she was actually allowed to be there.
“I love it. I love it. I love Target, even though they expletive hate me so much,” she said. “I love it, and I will always love it.”
‘Why Would You Post This?’: Viewers Stunned by Target Theft Confession
The clip quickly drew reactions, with some viewers stunned by how openly the woman discussed her alleged theft history. One commenter interpreted her willingness to share the story through a racial lens, writing, “Ladies and gentlemen: white privilege.”
Another zeroed in on the recklessness of the confession itself, writing, “Bragging about theft and filming while driving at high speed is wild,” while a third argued more broadly that “California is too soft on criminals.”
Other viewers did the math out loud. One pointed out that her claimed haul works out to “an average of $13,000 a month in theft over 3 years,” and asked how that’s even logistically possible. A few reactions were pure secondhand embarrassment, as one person admitted, “I feel bad using the bathroom at Starbucks without purchase. Damn.”
Others couldn’t get past the decision to post it: “Why would you post this???” and “Couldn’t have waterboarded this out of me on here. What the heck.”
California’s shoplifting laws have been politically contentious for years. Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014, generally classified theft involving $950 or less as a misdemeanor. But voters changed the landscape again with Proposition 36 in 2024, which increased penalties for some repeat theft offenses.
The newer law also allows prosecutors to combine the value of merchandise taken during multiple thefts when determining whether the $950 felony threshold has been reached. That makes the woman’s claims particularly striking. If her account of repeated thefts and prior cases is accurate, California law is far more complicated than treating every alleged theft under $950 as an isolated misdemeanor.
For now, the staggering dollar amounts, probation terms, and Target bans remain the TikToker’s own account of her legal history. But perhaps the strangest part of her story requires no complicated math at all. After everything she says has happened between her and the retailer, she still walked back through those red doors and reached one conclusion: “I will always love it.”
