ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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The Real HustleThey exposed this as a pretty effective scam, slightly different though. It went like this;
Person A enters store, finds some nice expensive saucepans or something and pays, gets a reciept and a bag and leaves. Once outside, shows Person B the stuff, and then puts it in the car.
Person B enters the store, finds the same items, but instead of going to the till, hides them somewhere in the shop.
Person A then reenters with the reciept and bag, finds the two items that have been hidden, walks up to the till and asks for a refund, because he'd had a misunderstanding and the wife had bought one from another shop at the same time.
Then gets a refund on the items that never actually left the store and makes off with the items he originally bought, for free!
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