marty
01-20-2008, 02:46 AM
This is from a friend; she called and related it because she couldn't quite believe it.
She works at a Halmark and her fiance works at a Gamestop two stores down. That sets the scene.
The characters have little dialogue, so need no names besides our main protagonist, B and the fiance, P.
B gets a call at the registers from the guy watching the security tape, and tells her that the woman that just walked out the door stuffed something up her shirt. He adds that B should go after her and ask to look in her bag. B sighs, since the guy is in charge, and pursues the woman, asks her to hold on one minute. The woman replies, "I don't have time for this shit!" and then jumps in the passenger side of a nearby car. The driver nearly runs B over backing out, but she gets their license plate number and, thoroughly shaken, goes back inside and calls P.
"Hey, that sounds like a woman that was in my store about an hour ago," says P, and, upon reviewing the tapes, sure enough, it was the same woman. P's tape reveals that the woman was traveling with two others (one of whom I'm sure was the driver). They came in together and left together.
Here's where it gets stupid. One of the woman bought something at P's store and used a debit card, with her name on it. The other one wrote a check with, not only her name as we all know, but her address and driver's license number as well.
Now, if you're going to shoplift from a store, why would you leave so much information at a store two shops down? Typically, when one place in a shopping center gets stolen from, they let everyone else in that center know, particularly if they're smaller shops. Why would you bother giving one of those stores so much information about yourself if you plan on stealing some of those stupid overpriced Vera Bradley bags two stores down?
They called the cops, and I bet those morons are thrown in the clink by the time I'm eating breakfast tomorrow.
She works at a Halmark and her fiance works at a Gamestop two stores down. That sets the scene.
The characters have little dialogue, so need no names besides our main protagonist, B and the fiance, P.
B gets a call at the registers from the guy watching the security tape, and tells her that the woman that just walked out the door stuffed something up her shirt. He adds that B should go after her and ask to look in her bag. B sighs, since the guy is in charge, and pursues the woman, asks her to hold on one minute. The woman replies, "I don't have time for this shit!" and then jumps in the passenger side of a nearby car. The driver nearly runs B over backing out, but she gets their license plate number and, thoroughly shaken, goes back inside and calls P.
"Hey, that sounds like a woman that was in my store about an hour ago," says P, and, upon reviewing the tapes, sure enough, it was the same woman. P's tape reveals that the woman was traveling with two others (one of whom I'm sure was the driver). They came in together and left together.
Here's where it gets stupid. One of the woman bought something at P's store and used a debit card, with her name on it. The other one wrote a check with, not only her name as we all know, but her address and driver's license number as well.
Now, if you're going to shoplift from a store, why would you leave so much information at a store two shops down? Typically, when one place in a shopping center gets stolen from, they let everyone else in that center know, particularly if they're smaller shops. Why would you bother giving one of those stores so much information about yourself if you plan on stealing some of those stupid overpriced Vera Bradley bags two stores down?
They called the cops, and I bet those morons are thrown in the clink by the time I'm eating breakfast tomorrow.