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This Was The Way... Or, Fun With Shoplifters

 This morning on the national news, there was a segment reporting on the soaring levels of shoplifting in the U.K (the secret is to make the shops out of heavier materials of course) and I had a flashback to my time running (later owning) Dungeons & Starships in the 90s. We had very tight stock control, and so I can be pretty certain that we had two - yes two - instances of shoplifting. In both cases, the goods were recovered - but in different ways as I shall relate here. A few weeks after the store opened a young lad decided, one Tuesday morning to try and make off with a few packets of the new (this was the start of that particular scourge that is CCGs) Magic: The Gathering cards, but was caught, given the fright of his life and let go. 'Let go?' I hear you say. 'By YOU?' you rightly cry out. Well you see, I'd seen the lad passing by a couple of times with his grandfather, a very stately and proud Indian gentleman of the old school, in I'd say his 70s. So...