Chinese woman steals outfit but doesn’t like coat colour, so returns next day to steal another
Police who answered shop’s theft report recognise suspect on live surveillance
A Chongqing woman who stole a coat from a local store but was dissatisfied with the colour, returned to the same shop the next day to steal another, and was caught by police investigating the first theft.
The middle-aged woman tried on a black coat, black shirt and pair of black pants on Wednesday last week and left the store wearing them, leaving her own clothes in the shop’s fitting room, the Chongqing Business News reported. She returned the next day and attempted to take a red coat using the same method.
A shop assistant realised the three items, worth a total of 1,000 yuan (HK$1,138), were missing at the end of the day, and called the police the next morning.
As police were checking footage from the previous day to identify a suspect, the same woman showed up on a live surveillance camera.