Thief Forgets Child At Crime Scene
Posted March 20, 2008 12:00 pm.
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Before you commit a felony, call a babysitter.
A shoplifter looking to make a quick escape from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left a crucial piece of evidence behind – his 12-year-old son.
In his haste the 45-year-old thief made a mad dash to his car, batting away a supermarket worker who had flung himself on the vehicle’s hood in an attempt to stop him.
Police in the southern Dutch town of Kerkrade said they managed to contact the thief via the boy, but he had refused to return and collect his son. The man told officers to contact the youngster’s mother instead.
The thief later turned himself in Thursday, according to police.
It turns out his boy may be the one thing this thief shouldn’t have taken.
