I work in a mini-market type thing, like Spar in the UK or Apu's from The Simpsons in America. My brother was dropping me into work a few days ago. Just before he drove off he spotted a suspicious gentleman. Deciding the suspect had something under his jacket(apart from his torso obviously), my brother went up to the shop office to check the cameras (he works in the same shop as me, he's not just a gung-ho vigilante with a passion for street justice). Sure enough he saw the guy had taken a can of pringles from the shelf before hiding it under his coat and making a sharp exit.
Strangely the shoplifter was caught about twenty minutes later across the road. We had spotted him sitting on a wall across from the shop eating the pringles quite candidly. So the boss called Finnbar(the local garda i.e. police officer) and told him. Naturally your man was arrested...well not quite. See the wall opposite our shop was in fact the wall of the courthouse. The very same courthouse the guy was about to go into to be charged. On the day he had been summoned to court for charging, he shoplifted the shop next door to the court, then flaunted the fact right in front of both the court and the shop. Naturally shoplifting was added to his charge sheet, twenty minutes before he went in front of a judge.
Next time I wonder 'can someone really be that stupid?' I will remember this story and think 'yes, absolutely'
Strangely the shoplifter was caught about twenty minutes later across the road. We had spotted him sitting on a wall across from the shop eating the pringles quite candidly. So the boss called Finnbar(the local garda i.e. police officer) and told him. Naturally your man was arrested...well not quite. See the wall opposite our shop was in fact the wall of the courthouse. The very same courthouse the guy was about to go into to be charged. On the day he had been summoned to court for charging, he shoplifted the shop next door to the court, then flaunted the fact right in front of both the court and the shop. Naturally shoplifting was added to his charge sheet, twenty minutes before he went in front of a judge.
Next time I wonder 'can someone really be that stupid?' I will remember this story and think 'yes, absolutely'