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May 19, 2007
Saturday
 
 
Second life?
Guy Herbert (London)  How very odd!

On the same day that the news widely features the very boring (if believable and justified) complaint from British shopkeepers that fixed-penalty notices are not sufficient to deter common shoplifting, comes this illustration that stealing from shops need not be mundane, but that it does not pay to be different:

A lab technician who dressed as a female elf to steal lingerie at knifepoint was jailed for two years today.

Robert Boyd, 45, donned a blonde Harpo Marx wig, glasses and a beanie hat to hold up a female staff member at a lingerie store in Belfast.

He claimed to have been involved in a futuristic fantasy role-playing game at the time of the robbery in December 2005.

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A future with Harpo Marx hair is not a future I want to be involved with.


Posted by zeno at May 20, 2007 08:52 AM

I think we'll need a +6 Jacket of Strait...


Posted by Just John at May 22, 2007 10:39 PM
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