But they are likely to pay a price for ignoring store's surveillance capabilities
Cavity searches would appear to be in the futures of a trio of alleged thieves who police say were caught by surveillance cameras extracting $1,300 worth of toothbrushes from a Massachusetts pharmacy.
When I first spotted the story, my initial reaction was a question: How could anyone steal enough toothbrushes from a pharmacy to make the haul worth $1,300?
Turns out they’re electric toothbrushes, and, never having owned one, I didn’t know they can go for more than $100 (are they worth it?).
Anyway, two women and one man are being sought by police in Wayland, Mass., for having allegedly pilfered a dozen of these devices. And these three suspected members of The Toothbrush Gang are clearly not smarter than a fourth grader.
The particular fourth-grader I have in mind is my 9-year-old daughter, who can’t walk into a store these days without spotting and pointing to the surveillance cameras. Since she is inquisitive, she knows why they are there. And, should it ever become necessary, I am hoping that this knowledge will help dissuade her from a life of crime.
Such has not been the case for The Toothbrush Gang, as they apparently exhibited no awareness of – or at least no respect for – the security cameras in that CVS Pharmacy, the same kind of cameras that have become as ubiquitous in retail establishments as cash registers and lottery tickets. Consequently, the trio’s photographs are now on the Internet for all to see.
And someone to rat them out.
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