We had this guy who came into our hobbyshop almost every day. He would reveal to us his past about being an addict, of what I don't know, and that he lived in a halfway house.
We started noticing stuff missing from the RC section that corresponded with his RC cars. He even brought back an item to return which he didn't have a reciept for. So, swordsman422 pulled up the item's history on the computer. Turns out we hadn't sold the item since 2004 and there was SUPPOSED to be one in stock...it wasn't. The owner took it back from him and said if he could produce a reciept for it, he would let him have it back. That was when we started suspecting him. We should have earlier, he was always bringing things back, like wrenches, that he had "accidently" left the store with.
Anyway, we started thouroughly investigating after 8 packages of glo plugs(need them to run a nitro rc) went missing. He was mad because his burned out before he got to run his car and we wouldn't replace it for him. It's not our fault. We looked on the camera, but the resolution wasn't great enough to accuse him of anything, but we knew it was him.
He proved it when he called up last Sunday, must have just gotten out of church, and confessed what he had stolen to the owner. He cried. He sobbed. He bawled. The owner was a little freaked out, but said that he had to pay back everything he stole before he could buy anything else.
Seriously, he cried. He is an adult. A full grown man with a wife and child. I don't know if he will pay us back or not, but we have all of his contact info in our system.
We started noticing stuff missing from the RC section that corresponded with his RC cars. He even brought back an item to return which he didn't have a reciept for. So, swordsman422 pulled up the item's history on the computer. Turns out we hadn't sold the item since 2004 and there was SUPPOSED to be one in stock...it wasn't. The owner took it back from him and said if he could produce a reciept for it, he would let him have it back. That was when we started suspecting him. We should have earlier, he was always bringing things back, like wrenches, that he had "accidently" left the store with.
Anyway, we started thouroughly investigating after 8 packages of glo plugs(need them to run a nitro rc) went missing. He was mad because his burned out before he got to run his car and we wouldn't replace it for him. It's not our fault. We looked on the camera, but the resolution wasn't great enough to accuse him of anything, but we knew it was him.
He proved it when he called up last Sunday, must have just gotten out of church, and confessed what he had stolen to the owner. He cried. He sobbed. He bawled. The owner was a little freaked out, but said that he had to pay back everything he stole before he could buy anything else.
Seriously, he cried. He is an adult. A full grown man with a wife and child. I don't know if he will pay us back or not, but we have all of his contact info in our system.
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