Well, the ones that are caught are. How about those whose crimes are not even suspected?
He wanted 3 hots and a cot with the least effort.
The amount of time a person holds an item in their hand at the store might be more than when they get it home and place it away.
Why is it, these days, that the word “gentleman” is only used in relation to a criminal - and more often, a despicable one?
Democrat.
Let me see, I guess the motel he was at was not a Holiday Inn Express.
I had to deal with a shoplifter once, and it ended up being a reasonably fun experience (for me, anyway). I worked at a department store in the mid to late ‘80s and had just arrived at work. There were others in my department, mostly milling around since we weren’t busy. The code for a shoplifter came over the loud speaker for a door right next to us, and one of our guys says something like, “what’s going on; that’s the third one today.”
The dude had taken a walkman like tape or CD player, walks outside, gets confronted, DROPS the device, and starts running. I saw others running after him, so I decided to join. Across the parking lot was a tire/car repair place, and then across the street was a string of mostly restaurants. He clears the parking lot (running really fast), goes around the first restaurant, and disappears! The guys I was with keep running but I had a suspicion he had ducked into the Chuck E Cheese type kids pizza place, so I go in there. I look around, and see the door to the men’s room closing, so I go in to check it out. The guy is trying to crawl up into the ceiling to hide!
I grab his legs to prevent his escape and he gets loose and kicks me in the chest — which hurt! So now, I’m pretty mad and throw a punch right into the last area he wants a punch thrown into, and he drops down. I drag him out the back of the restaurant and somehow the cops are just driving up. They handcuff him and put him in the back while reading him his rights. I told them he’d be using the right to remain silent for a few minutes, anyway! I never did figure out how the cops and I timed our meeting so well.
Now, the cops won’t respond at all or if they do, they’ll write a ticket.