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Jason
12-03-2007, 05:05 PM
I was in a shop buying christmas decorations, the queue was massive, I was disheartened. Eventually I saw him. The devious looking chap near the till. He was at the counter, I was in the queue. The person he was with was paying for her goods he decided to pinch a bounty chocolate bar! How could this guy think he could get away with this?

I wasn't having none of this, why should he get one if I don't. I looked around the store to see if security were about to bust his ass. There was no movement. The guy was about to get away with his prize. I knew if he got away with this he would do it again, I waited till he was about to pull away from the counter and stepped in. I approach the woman next to him and say to her. "Excuse me, I think he has something he shouldn't have."

The guy knows he is busted, the woman searches him and slaps him. The guy gives me a look which says "How could you? I was so close!" But it doesn't phase me. Today I am a crime fighting mastermind. This shopping chain will not be the victim of theft when i'm around :).

This all sounds very impressive huh, I have left out a few facts. The 'devious looking chappy' was in fact a 5 year old boy in a pram. After being busted I heard him shouting 'but I want a sweetie.' Also my 'Excuse me..'line involved more sign language than words. In the excitement of catching a criminal mastermind at work I forgot how to speak heh.

Still it broke up the monotony of buying Xmas stuff.

Has anyone else busted anyone before?

warrick
12-04-2007, 09:37 PM
Hey Jason, great story and thank you for my first smile of the day. I havent ever caught anyone myself but my wife used to work by herself at a petrol station in a more poverty striken part of New Zealand. Catching shoplifting kids was a daily chore and she used to come home with stories about how the kids used to be in trouble with the parents, but not for the stealing. They were in trouble for getting caught and not bringing home the days groceries. It is indeed a funny old world that we live in.