Funny Thing Happened On My Way Home...

Today, as planned, I reviewed video of the shift before, hoping to acquire a good shot of the movie thief. As luck would have it, I have plenty of footage of him buying his ring, and wandering around the store looking for the bathroom, but somehow, he, like an odd number of the bandits I deal with, avoids every camera like the plague. He walks right under several of them, but each time he is either looking down, or away. So, we have to pass on the photograph idea.

I spend the rest of the day relaying the story to employees who weren't there and those who heard about it and came to me for the juicy details. By the time the end of my nine hour shift arrived I had just about forgotten about the movie thief. Walking to my car in the lot I noticed the sun wasn't all the way down yet. I thought to myself, it will be nice to get home while the sun is still in the air. Before I left the lot, I decided to do a lap around the building. This is recommended by the higher ups, because sometimes they are able to catch an unsuspecting thief walking out the rear doors, or in the back hiding items in the bushes, etc.

I lap the building every time I close the store for the night, but when the store is still open, I don't usually make the trip around the building. For some reason, I decided to do it this evening. I checked all of the fire exits and found each one clear. I turned the last corner and was approaching the last door before I peeled away from the building and headed home.

Mounds of snow sat melting nearby. As I passed the last one, something caught my eye. Something in the snow was reflecting from the sun and shining at me. I slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car.

Sure enough... there sat the three discs I told the Police Dispatcher the thief would have in his pockets. One by one, I dug them out of the snow.
First, "The Marine," then "The Proposal" and ironically, thirdly, "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

Something he was not.

All that effort for nothing. Case closed...advantage...me.