# Shoplifter sprints for freedom. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651 "2013-08-19T18:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/1 "2013-08-19T18:35:03Z")
Academy Sports & Outdoors store security chases her. She takes off right across 6 lanes of traffic.:eek: > **[WATCH: Texas woman runs across highway after alleged theft from sporting...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/08/19/watch-texas-woman-runs-across-highway-after-alleged-theft-from-sporting-goods-store/)** > > Stupid is as stupid does. It wasn’t quite Forrest Gump, but a Texas woman took off running and even crossed a busy highway on foot after allegedly stealing from a sporting goods store in Corp… Big risk for such a minor offense. Geez that girl must play frogger all the time. > [@](#): > > “One of the suspects took off running out of the store,” Lt. Robert Alvarado of the Corpus Christi Police Department told the station. “The loss prevention officers were pointing to her, so one of the officers gave chase. As she got toward the freeway and show[ed] her intentions of crossing the freeway on foot, the officer disengaged his foot pursuit so he or she wouldn’t get hurt.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/2 "2013-08-19T19:29:22Z")
She must’ve been coached by [George Costanza](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-FbktgqCqY). ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/3 "2013-08-19T20:27:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Big risk for such a minor offense. I’m bettin’ this ain’t her first rodeo. On another note; DAMN - girl can book! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/4 "2013-08-19T21:11:55Z")
I am a little curious why the camera was available. It was clearly across a major street from the store, so it’s doesn’t seem like it would be a connected private security system. Do Cops have eye in the sky systems in Texas? After the pull out that one seemed very high mounted. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/5 "2013-08-19T21:49:02Z")
It was a TV station’s tower camera (for live weather, traffic, and scenic shots), not anything police or security related. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/6 "2013-08-19T22:23:28Z")
Cute but stupid. Drat. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/7 "2013-08-19T23:44:33Z")
I see the news story has been updated to include her name and a warrant is out for her arrest. She’ll probably face a stiffer charge for fleeing than for the shoplifting. I guess her friend/accomplice ratted her out. Thats the only way they could have gotten her name so fast. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoplifter-sprints-for-freedom/666651/8 "2013-08-20T01:39:00Z")
Wa-hey! That’s my town! Never expected the story to get picked up outside of S. Texas. 🙂