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.
A future with Harpo Marx hair is not a future I want to be involved with.
I think we’ll need a +6 Jacket of Strait…