Stop, thief!

On Saturday I was so busy blogging about the Puy de Dôme (it's just one post earlier) that I forgot about an incident that happened earlier that day. I was in a small shop (Maison de la Presse, for those who have seen it before), and as I was paying, one of the cashiers (I call them cashiers for lack of a better word, "workers" doesn't seem so nice) suddenly dashed towards the doorway. She grabbed a teddy bear (or some big plush toy, about 40cm tall...I didn't notice exactly what) from a man who was leaving, saying "I'll take that back". Seems that the guy was leaving with that toy tucked under his arm, without paying.

The cashier who was serving me burst out laughing, and kept saying "Il fallait le faire!" (literally "(Someone) needed to do it!", but in this context it's more like "What a thing to try!") Really, I was pretty astonished as well. What audacity...maybe because the 3 cashiers were all women...he knew he'd get away...with or without the teddy bear.