How much would you pay for free stuff? If you are a shop-lifter, the answer is probably... not much. After all, why steal if you have to pay anyway? It sort of violates the very basic definition of "free".
Unless you absolutely must have that 40-inch plasma television set at all (or no!) cost.
Or that enticing packet of meat!! One shop-lifter in the Netherlands decided to renounce his own son for a measly packet of food. I guess the drugs are so easy to get, that thieves must aim higher for the challenge of it all. Read on (courtesy of Reuters)! As the economists like to say, there is nothing called a free lunch.
Fleeing shoplifter forgets son
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence -- his 12-year-old son.
In his haste the 45-year-old thief made a solo dash to his car, batting away a supermarket worker who had flung himself on the vehicles' bonnet in a bid to stop the escape.
Police in the southern Dutch town of Kerkrade said they managed to contact the thief via the boy, but he had refused to return and collect his son. The man told officers to get hold of the youngster's mother instead.
The thief later turned himself in Thursday, a police spokeswoman said.
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