They spot a shoplifter.
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The young shoplifter was only13 years old.
A shoplifter shoplifted and left the lift of the shop.
they'd rather marry a shoplifter or a blind person than someone who was fat.
A persistent shoplifter has been banned from every shop in town.
The shoplifter stole hundreds of dollars worth of jewelry from the store.
The shoplifter screams in shock as policemen speed towards him, grab his arms and legs, lift him up and drag him away on roller-blades.
The store detective told the shoplifter that the game was up and that there was no point in making any fuss.
"I was getting abuse every day," says Mr. Duckworth, who left his job due to a knee injury inflicted by a would-be shoplifter.
German shoppers sprang to the help of shoplifter who was being detained after trying to steal clothes at a department store, wrongly assuming she was being attacked by strangers, police said.
Police in the western city of Bielefeld said the shop owner recognized the 20-year-old shoplifter because the white shoes and sports jacket he wore were available only in his shop, and had been stolen just two days earlier.
"I was getting abuse every day," says Mr. Duckworth, who left his job due to a knee injury inflicted by a would-be shoplifter. Customers are "getting ruder and ruder," he adds. "The level of respect in society has just gone."
