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A Family That Steals Together ...

By Alex in Crime & Law on Jun 20, 2009 at 3:20 pm


Quick: what do you usually do on a family outing? Do you go to the movies? Maybe eat out? How about steal together? That’s exactly what one family did in Boerne, Texas.

Kim Fischer of WOAI reports:

Boerne police said that they’ve never seen anything like it. A family stealing items right off a store counter. Then, caught on surveillance video, a child walking out the door with them.

Wal-Mart camera saw it all. First a man cases the jewelry section. Next, he brings in a child to cover him as he steals an entire carousel of jewelry worth $1,600. Then police say the adult let this small child do the dirty work. "She was the one who pushed that grocery cart out the front door …"

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  1. health
    Jun 20th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    You is doin' life wrong! Don't be teachin' yer kids to do life as wrong as you you been done!

  2. J
    Jun 20th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I worked at a big retail store for 3 years and it was quite shocking to see how often families stole together, and more often then not they had the children steal.

  3. Foreigner1
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 4:24 am

    ...Elena you by any chance also doing that Cougar-thing als a family-thing...?

  4. Alex
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 7:39 am

    spam deleted - which may explain Foreigner1's comment.

  5. Shanelle
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am

    "Never seen anything like it before"? I guess they've never worked retail. I only worked retail part-time for one year, and I saw it. A lot.

  6. LisaL
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Wow...... some people should not be allowed to breed.
    *waits for the idiotic nazi comments*

  7. Idil
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    haha thanks for clarifying, Alex, i thought Foreigner1 had gone a little insane...

  8. Noelegy
    Jun 21st, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    *waits for the anti-Texas bigotry*

  9. ted
    Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 am

    This is a pretty sad state of affairs, and is nothing new. Happens all over the world.

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