MURRAY, Utah - A thief remains at large after pulling off a daring heist - in the pet food aisle.
Surveillance video at a supermarket in this Salt Lake City suburb caught a dog shoplifting, KSL-TV reported Wednesday.
The video showed the dog walking in the front door of Smith's Food & Drug in Murray, and heading straight to Aisle 16, the pet food aisle, where it grabbed a bone worth $2.79.
The thief wasn't even perturbed by a face-to-face confrontation with store manager Roger Adamson.
"I looked at him. I said 'Drop it!'" Adamson said. "He looked at me, and I looked at him, and he ran for the door and away he went, right out the front door."
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« Reply #1 on: 2008-12-27 19:33:34 »
"What are you doing here?": man asks wife at brothel
Source: Reuters Authors: Chris Borowski (Writing),Matthew Jones (Editing) Dated: 2008-01-09 Dateline: Warsaw
A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.
Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.
"I was dumfounded. I thought I was dreaming," the husband told the newspaper on Wednesday.
The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
"What are you doing here?": man asks wife at brothel
This sounds so much like an urban legend I had to check snopes, but so far just some discussion there and at Museum of Hoaxes. Indeterminate.
True. I suppose the fact that Reuters cited a Polish tabloid, would cause one to ask how much fact checking was actually done. It seems like a plausible story, however. Just as a clever dog who has learned your basic snatch-grab-run skills necessary for some shoplifting thievery. Indeed it causes me to wonder if these kinds of things don't happen more frequently, just not always on a slow news day so we don't hear about them. Who knows how much of this kind of stuff we missed right after 9-11? Perhaps that's when this dog was picking up his new theft tricks while we were all distracted gazing into the shiney globes. . .
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« Reply #4 on: 2008-12-28 21:34:16 »
Given that a near perfect morality tale nearly a year old was among the most read items on Reuters today, I did all the same checking before posting it. I rated it borderline but funny enough to post here.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
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« Reply #5 on: 2008-12-28 21:37:21 »
Of course there are competing claims from other shoe companies, which the article includes, but then the real funny meta-story is how once again economics doesn't lie. Apparently whether this guy made the shoe or not, he was among the first to effectively market that he did which probably speaks even better to his overall mental quickness than his craft. All the same, I'm finding myself wanting a pair of these in a men's 14 medium . . . in case anyone was considering a New Year's gift for me - or even a belated Solstice/Xmas.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - For the past 10 years, model 271 has been the bestseller of Ramazan Baydan's Ducati line of shoes. It's got all the attributes of a workhorse – affordable and durable, chunky, yet presentable. To these winning qualities, now add another one: throwable.
According to Mr. Baydan, it was a black pair of his shoes that Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi threw at President Bush during a Dec. 14 press conference. Mr. Zaidi now stands accused of "aggression against a foreign head of state during an official visit," an offense that carries a prison term of between five and 15 years under Iraqi law. His trial begins Wednesday.
"I have seen this shoe for 10 years. I know it very well," says Baydan, during an interview in his small shoe factory, located in a scruffy neighborhood on the edge of Istanbul.
"I have a sensitive relationship with this shoe. I designed it myself, so it's like a father and a child. I was very happy when I saw it on the video," he adds.
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