# Did you witness shoplifting?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 21, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-witness-shoplifting/954714 "2021-11-21T12:36:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-witness-shoplifting/954714/22 "2021-11-22T15:49:02Z")

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From several years back:

> [@I helped a guy steal a vacuum cleaner this weekend.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-helped-a-guy-steal-a-vacuum-cleaner-this-weekend/677479):
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> Crazy afternoon on Saturday. Wife and I went to the vacuum cleaner store to get parts for…our vacuum cleaner. We walked into the vac store, and the sales guy was talking to a scruffy-lookin’ dude. When we set our dead part on the counter and asked for a replacement, the sales guy walked into the back room to get it. As he walked back out with our part, he yelled “HEY!” and I turned around just in time to see the scruffy-lookin’ dude running out the door with a boxed $600 vacuum cleaner unde…

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