How did that happen

I just read an article from our local news saying that police are investigating the theft of a TV from our local mall. What is so amazing about that? Well, it was a 42 inch plasma screen TV that was taken in the middle of the day from the front desk of a portrait studio. Whoever did this was able to successfully unplug all cables pick up the TV and walk out of the mall without being noticed. This is was the quote from the employee at the studio: "I realized that it was gone when my boss came in and said the monitor was gone. And I said the monitor was gone? So I just jumped up and saw that the monitor was gone. That was pretty much it. I was in the back putting plain t-shirts in a box."

I don't know how this person got out of the studio without being noticed, but once he/she hit the mall it was easy. Mainly because the police officers that are assigned to our mall are jokes. They spend most of their time hanging out with employees of the mall. I used to work for Chick-fil-A in our mall, and the police officers at that time would come and flirt with the 16 and 17 year olds all the time. At one point, one of the officers was hanging out with us when the other officer called over the radio to tell him to come to another place in the mall to check out a girl. These were men in their thirties (old enough to know better), and way too old to be flirting with teenagers. This behavior has not changed throughout the years, and I guarantee is the reason someone was able to walk right out of the mall with a 42 inch plasma screen television. It really is ridiculous.


Just to put it in perspective, this is a 42 inch plasma screen television.