Not me shoplifting, but a few weeks ago
I was just going past our local Netto when I saw a lad come belting out with a large flat box under his arm, followed a few seconds later by the sound of an alarm ringing. He tore across the carpark, jogged across the main road then stopped 40 yards further on and rested the box on a wall and bent over double, obviously knackered.
By this point 4 workers who were built like shithouses had run out, scanned the carpark and then set off after him.
The shoplifter saw them and set off running uphill to a block of flats, but he was slowing fast - they were still in full speed chase mode. They were just like that police officer terminator!
He got to the block of flats and staggered inside, followed about 30 yards later by 4 blokes intent on capture.
I had to drive on at this point, so never saw the outcome, but was pissing myself for ages at the thought of someone being stupid enough to....

a - rob from Netto in the first place....Christ he must have nicked something worth about 4 quid max.
b - Plan a getaway when you can only run for 20 seconds without having to throw up.
c - Give yourself 3 seconds to hide in a block of flats with only one entrance/exit.
(turtles head is touching cloth poked a dwarf on the forehead at, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 7:52, Reply)