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Slow Learner

Security officers at a grocery store in Downers Grove, Ill., were watching as a man loaded $11,422 worth of items into two gift bags in his shopping cart — and then headed toward the exit without paying. David Morelock, 25, was quickly apprehended. Morelock is well known to the chain’s security guards: he has been charged in three previous shoplifting cases from stores in the chain, in the amounts of $301, $1,185, and $1,499, and is suspected in several others. After his arrest, he told police that had he known he was going to get caught, he would have run. Prosecutors, however, refused to press charges in the latest case: he was grabbed before he made it outside the store. (RC/Chicago Sun Times) ...Well sure: that’s when he would have run.