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    I thought I'd share this tale with you as I responded to a 'Ever Foiled a Crime' thread in another forum. I was working in a hardware store years ago (anyone remember Shergolds?) I was trying to fix the staff loo as it wouldn't flush, so I stood on the seat and lifted the cistern top and found a package of bank notes (about £200) wrapped in a polythene bag stuffed inside. Thinking that someone must have been on the fiddle in the store which only had 4 employees and so I quietly rang head office who advised me to put it back, go home as usual and say nothing but not to come in the following day.
    So the day after that when I went into work the 2 other sales assistants were all excited as they said the police had been in the previous day and arrested the manager in the shop and led him out in handcuffs as it turned out he had been nicking stuff for months not only from the till but taking shit loads of things like drills and resalable electrics which had been found filling up his garage at home. I was promoted to assistant manager for my efforts but within months the shop/company went bust and the building became an amusement arcade.

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    • I should add, it also turned out the manager was the son of the owner of the company Big Boss Shergold himself!Gardener
    • Can't believe you grassed him up to his dad.
      Lol      PhanLo
    • apparently he had a massive gambling habit, the police must have gone into the shop and grilled the staff and he'll have broken under interrogationGardener
    • You could have asked for a cut. You didn't have to do him like that.palimpsest
    • it's theft!Gardener
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