So on October 16, a 19-year-old man in Niigata Prefecture’s Nagaoka decided instead to target a “recycle shop,” a store that deals in second-hand goods of just about any nature. His plan started out strong, as he entered the shop at around 11:40 a.m. and pretended to browse the wares. Taking advantage of a moment when the employees’ eyes were off him, the man slipped a speaker, which the store was selling for 18,252 yen (US$165) into his bag and nonchalantly making his escape by strolling out the exit.
So far so good, but now he needed to convert the hot speaker into cold cash. The obvious way to do this, of course, would be to sell the speaker to a recycle shop, since the second-hand merchants are accustomed to purchasing items without documented proof of ownership and generally pay sellers on the spot, in cash, thus minimizing the paper trail.
Ready to move into his endgame, the man removed the price tag from the speaker and headed for a recycle shop…or perhaps we should say he headed for the recycle shop, as in the exact same store he’d stolen the speaker from just seven minutes ago.
The man walked up to a clerk and said he’d like to sell a speaker. The clerk, showing off his completely ordinary memory capabilities, recognized it as having been in the shop until just a few minutes ago and promptly called the police, who came and arrested the man on theft charges.
Obviously a future Darwin Award winner that one. Good luck
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