By now, most of you have either read about or seen the surveillance video of a bold unarmed grocery market thief who would not be deterred in his crime spree despite a face-to-face confrontation with the store manager. Even so, this story of the shoplifting dog, whose acute sense of smell led him directly to the pet supply section, is too good to be left out of my blog.
Here is one of the better accounts of this news event as reported yesterday by John Hollenhorst of Fresno's ABC30 Action News:
A four-legged thief struck quickly at a grocery store in Utah. It walked right into the store, grabbed a present (a $2.79 rawhide bone), and made a clean getaway. But not before leaving some incriminating paw marks.
At Smith's Food & Drug in Murray (a Salt Lake City suburb), a popular place these days is the manager's office, where they have the surveillance video.
"You had to see to believe it", said Tracy Jacobson of Smith's Food & Drug, "but it happened. So. It's crazy."
A suspicious character entered through the front door.
"I've never seen him shop in here before, brand new customer" said Roger Adamson, the store manager.
What happened next is already becoming legend.
"How likely is that, for a dog to walk into a store, go down the pet aisle, get his bone, and walk out?" Adamson said.
Let's reconstruct the crime a step at a time.
Entering at the checkout area he approached a young girl. At that point he had a decision to make. Left? No dog food. Right? Dog food.
He turned right and went straight to aisle 16. The dog food isle.
He grabbed a rawhide bone like this and headed down the aisle, only to be confronted by the manager.
"I looked at him, I said drop it! I decided I wanted to keep all my fingers. So, I didn't try to take it from him. He looked at me and I looked at him and he ran for the door and away he went. Right out the front door." Adamson added.
At last word, he was still at large, presumably enjoying his Christmas loot.
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