My favorite story happened on a very busy day at Sears. The store was crowded and they were shorthanded with employees, so the security guard who was monitoring the cameras upstairs also had to run the store intercom system.
A man came into the camera department, picked up an expensive camera, and slipped it into his right pocket. The security guard upstairs called one of the floor guards on his earphone and told him what had happened. The floor guard followed the shoplifter, who went to the escalator and started riding up to the second floor. This was a touchy situation. It was hard to see what a suspect was doing on the escalator, and if he moved the merchandise and the guard didn’t know where it was when he tried to stop him outside of the store, he couldn’t arrest him.
Sure enough, the shoplifter took the camera out of his right pocket and put it in his left. The upstairs security guard quickly grabbed the microphone to let the floor guard know about the move, but he grabbed the store-wide microphone by mistake. You can imagine the shoplifter’s surprise when over the intercom he heard, "The suspect has just taken the merchandise out of his right pocket and put it in his left." The shoplifter looked up at the ceiling in surprise, grabbed the camera, threw it down the stairs, then ran up the last few steps, across the floor, and out the nearest exit. They never saw him again, probably because he figured any store that had that good a connection with heaven was one store he would stay away from.
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