MirrorUK: A gang of crafty thieves pretended to be mannequins when a department store was locking up for the night – before they made away with £10,000 worth of designer clothes.
They posed as dummies at a Beales store in Worthing, Sussex, alongside the real models on display.
As soon as staff had shut up shop , they browsed the stock at their leisure picking out what they wanted.
Sussex Police were baffled as to how the gang – who are still on the run – got in without setting off alarms at the upmarket store. read more
Beales gets stiffed.
Sounds like they weren’t the real dummies, after all.
“Sussex Police were baffled” by department store dummies!
Inside job. Crooks knew there were no motion detectors in security system.
Can’t imagine the feral pavement apes around here thinking up this one.
Or standing still with their pants up for more than 2 seconds.
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