Only 27 More Shoplifting Days Left Til Christmas

The day before Thanksgiving is often spent making last minute preparations cleaning the house, hiding that bottle of gin from your reckless Uncle Phil, hiding that Victoria's Secret catalog that suspiciously found its way into the bathroom, etc. However, there's always that small percentile of people who embark on one last desperate act of stupidity and find themselves in handcuffs. This was the case this past Wednesday evening at a Walgreen's in the Gold Coast.
 
A handful of Police Officers were walking their posts when a male subject bolted out of a Walgreen's and was being apprehended by the store manager who was yelling, "stop, thief!"
Officers pursued the subject across a very busy intersection risking life and limb against traffic and hopped a large wall chasing the man into a darkly lit yard. Allegedly,the offender quickly pulled from his jacket a shiny metal object and looked directly at the officers chasing him. It remains unclear what transpired here but one of the officers drew his weapon and pointed the barrel at the offender. It turns out the shiny metallic item was nothing more than a curling iron which the offender just stole from the store. End of pursuit, offender in custody. No shots fired. This time.

This could have turned out very ugly. From this account, the officers may have been completely justified in lighting this jerk up. I wasn't there but if I was, this idiot, whose only excuse was that he wanted to buy his kid some food (sure, pal), would have died from lead poisoning. This store had been the target of shoplifters 3 times earlier the same day. Thieves: you are being put on notice. Come hell or high water, cops are tired of being on the defensive and targeted for frivolous lawsuits and we will smoke your asses.