We had a couple come through not too long ago. They were clearly high on something. He apparently dropped trou in the men's dept and put on a pair of our shorts as witnessed by AP through security system, then managed to grab one of our t-shirts and get that on, too, although that wasn't on film. He came into the fitting room with a bunch of swim trunks, left fairly quickly but ended up handing me back a pair of shorts that were not ours. I guess they were the ones he was originally wearing. Just because it was so strange, I went into the fitting room and found the tag from the shorts he had lifted on the floor. In the meanwhile, his wife has their toddler and she is screaming at the kid - so much so that folks were coming out of the aisles to make sure she wasn't abusing the little girl. Then the guy takes over for his wife and starts racing up and down the aisles pushing this child. He was going dangerously fast. I'm trying to pick up clothes off the floor and wife sees a dress I'm holding, comes over touches it and remarks "Ohhh....pretty!". Good clue that she was wasted. Meanwhile, hotdog is running through the store yelling wife's name so loud that again, people are coming out of nowhere to see what's going on. AP finally gets hold of them, tells them they have film showing theft but couple keeps denying. We get their address and they peel out of the parking lot at break neck speed. I called for AP to let him know about tag I found but was told he was busy. I didn't realize he was in the process of showing these people the door. I finally catch up with him, give him the tag and apparently that's what they needed to verify that film was valid. Police are called and they go pay a call to the couple. Turns out they were high on meth, might even have been making some. Little girl was taken by Division of Family Services and placed in foster care. From what I heard, it wasn't parents' first offense, so the outlook for the two of them wasn't real good. It was a very interesting afternoon.
