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Idiot Shoplifter
By Loco | August 1, 2008
This particular idjit I had the pleasure of seeing personally. A guy came into the store I work at and wandered around a bit, he kept looking at the counter and we quickly got the whole ‘this guy’s going to steal’ vibe from him. Sure enough, he bent down behind a shelf for a moment at which point one of the counter girls called over to him “Can I help you sir?”. He stood back up right away and said no, he was just browsing. He finished his walk around the aisle and promptly left.
Thinking that something was amiss I went over to check on the stuff he had walked past and after several minutes figured out that something was in fact missing. I went down to the office to review the security footage and sure enough, at the time when the girl shouted over to him, he was in the middle of putting a box into his jacket, but he put that back on the shelf. The item he stole, he stuffed down his coat sleeve, was a 10 pack of blank cassette tapes. Yep, it’s hard to enough to believe that we still have such a thing in stock let alone someone wanting to steal them.
After being picked up 20 minutes later by the police, stolen goods still in his possession, he even said to the cops “yeah it was pretty stupid to steal that, I should have taken something better..” My immediate reponse to that was “He shouldn’t have been stealing anything in the first place!” What an idjit.
Topics: Customers, Retail, Thieves |