Woman Accused of Trying to Shoplift 418 Items

By John Farrier in Everything Else on Dec 6, 2009 at 11:15 am

She was not very subtle about it. At the Lewis Drug Store in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a woman was arrested for hauling 418 items out to her car:

Police say an employee of the Lewis store at 10th and Cliff in Sioux Falls noticed her acting suspiciously.

She was apparently filling up a bag with items and then went outside without paying.

The employee confronted her and called police.

Police say she had stolen 418 items from the store, simply by filling up bags with merchandise, and taking them to her car.

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Tags: shoplifting

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Bad Criminal
Dec 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I’m at 420… Items that is.

Shhhh…
Edward
Dec 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am
So, if she had stopped about 350 items, could she have driven away with her ill gotten gains? I suspect that a Lewis employee was helping her.
enemyswim
Dec 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Hahahahahahahaha. I live in Sioux Falls, and that store sucks (as does Sioux Falls). I can’t imagine finding 5 things worth stealing in Lewis, let alone 418.
Hamlet Hamster
Dec 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
ow many items to be stolen by just one person during just one shopping-trip are currently mentioned in Guinness’s Book of Records?
Manticore
Dec 6th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Looks like you forgot to close an italics tag. Whoooooole page is in italics
ReverendTed
Dec 6th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Fortune favors the bold, but…dang.
Alex
Dec 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Should be fixed now, thanks Manticore.
Dave
Dec 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Sounds like a good tactic, especially with the ‘green’ shopping bags that are so popular these days; stroll through the store & fill the open bags in the cart, then walk out the door as if you’ve already paid.

And enemyswim… I too live in SF, and it’s a great place to live & raise a family. With an attitude like that about this fine city, your roots here can’t be so deep that you can’t pull up & move. It’s a free country; check it out, and make SF better with your absence.
Paulo
Dec 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
The article leaves so many questions. It sounds like maybe she was mentally ill. I want to know that the store sells.
Lea
Dec 6th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
But did they actually press charges or just take back the stuff?

I used to catch shoplifters all the time and they never pressed charges so now I just try to do my best to prevent the items being taken if I can (it’s a small store).
Bolton
Dec 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
lmao i live near su fu… thats funny, i dont have cable so i didnt hear about this and thats really funny… i googled ” fucking lame ” and this blog popped up and so i started reading it, never expected to see stuff like this..

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