> And there are always enough people willing to try stealing something if
> they think they can get away with it.  Back in the late 80's when I
> worked retail in a mall, I had a onetime friend try to steal something
> from my store *while I was on duty* (and when the alarm went off, he
> returned the item and claimed he was "just testing" the system - hence
> the "onetime friend" status).  On a second occasion, we caught a guy red-
> handed using a bag with a shoebox in it (with the end cut off) to dump
> expensive merchandise in and had him hauled away by the cops.

And if you wrap a few layers of tin foil around the inside you don't 
even need to worry about removing the security tags in-store :-) My 
sister works in retail and has seen all this sort of stuff too, it's 
amazing how ingenious the thieves are.

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