5. Shop-Lifters

1. Steven Kemble was arrested in St. George, Utah, when he tried to flee after shoplifting a CD. After being briefly detained by a store clerk, he broke free, dashed out the door, and ran into a pillar in front of the shop, knocking himself unconscious.

2. Roy Philips Downfall was a colour fellow. Appearing in court on shoplifting charges, he wore a yellow parka, yellow shirt, yellow pants, and a yellow tie. It was a similar dress that drew him to the attention of the store detective at a supermarket in Oldham, England, where everything he was after had a yellow connection; jellies, mustard, cheese, three pairs of socks, and two pairs of underpants, He was given a one-month suspended sentence.

3. In Johannesburg, South Africa, a shoplifter with a passion for cheese was caught for the sbcth time after stealing gouda and

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Cheddar, Cleopas Ntima told police he paid for his other groceries, but said Voices¹ told him to take the cheese.

6. Robbers

6.1- Mr. Wazir Jiwi was the only clerk in a Lite night shop in Houston, Texas, when he found himself looking at two pistols. "You don't need two," he told the bandit "Why don't you sell me one of them?" The gunman named his price at $100; Jiwi handed over the cash and was given the gun As he placed it under the counter, he pushed the button that locked the shop door. They then agreed on the price for the other gun. The outlaw grabbed the second bundle of cash, put his other pistol on the counter, and tried to leave. When he found he could not get out, Jiwi told him to bring the money back and he would let him go. And he did let him go, presumably guessing that anyone that stupid would get arrested soon enough anyway,

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   An armed man in Groinmgen, northern Holland, handed a shopkeeper a note demanding money. The man behind the counter took one look and then wrote his own terse reply: "Bug off" (or the nearest Dutch equivalent). And the gunman did, too, fleeing empty-handed.

3. When John Gregory came to trial, the tale that came out was one of high farce rather than high drama, Gregory and an accomplice had attempted to rob a video-shop in Feltham, England, but unfortunately they were so dense, they thought the shop's type­writer was the cash register and ordered the manager, at gunpoint, to 'open it up¹. Even after they'd spotted their mistake, they still managed to grab only five pounds before their shotgun went off accidentally, which scared them so much they fled, dropping the cash in the shop's doorway. The net return for the robbery was no money and 4 years* youth custody.

4. A robber armed with a sausage raided a shop in Graz, Austria, and escaped with 1,600 shillings- Storekeeper Rudy Buckmeister was hit over the head with the ten-pound sausage. "It felt like a baseball bat," he said.

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6.5. Clive Bunyan burst into a store near Scarborough, England, brandishing a toy revolver and wearing a crash helmet and a mask. He got the shop clerk to hand over 250 pounds and fled outside to his motorcycle. However, he'd forgotten that written on his helmet in inch-high letters was "CLIVE BUNYAN — DRIVER". He was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.