I have to post this. Talk about a stupid person. My only concern is for the child involved. It's a sad and a very stupid thing to have done makes one feel sorry that a Father would stoop to the level of stealing food but then it also makes one wonder how desparate the Father must have felt.

Shoplifter forgets son!
Posted Mar 20th 2008 6:52PM by Jennifer Jordan
Filed under: Health and Safety, Dads, 10-12 years, Stores and shopping, Outings, Weird but True


Gee, how embarrassing. You go in for one thing, leave without another, and it turns out to be your child. Oh, and you were too busy shoplifting to remember to get him on the way out!

A shoplifter in Amsterdam five-fingering a pack of meat accidentally left his twelve-year-old son in the supermarket he stole from. The thief was, naturally, traced because of his son. When contacted by authorities he refused to claim his son and asked that they call the child's mother instead.

Eventually, the shoplifter did turn himself in. Not only was he setting a bad example for his child, but my guess is that in addition to shoplifting charges he could face abandonment, endangering a child and a bunch of other things too.

Stupid, stupid, stupid...yet, true, true, true. Thankfully the son wasn't charged as an accomplice or anything.

Supermarket pic by hellochris.