"Daddy, you get badguy?"

[Chaerophon]

That's a good story, but a bad thief, eh? Congrat's on the catch though, and on the adoration! :)

Here's a couple of stories of my own:

The grocery store where I used to work was plagued by a group of organized, professional thieves who were all addicted to crack/heroin but who were all quite proficient. They had a scouting system, and we rarely caught any of them. On one occasion, I recognized the most prolific of them entering the store and followed him - I witnessed him lifting a bunch of non-prescription arthritis drugs (40+ bucks a bottle, should have been behind the counter) and thought that we had finally caught him. He had recently taken over 1500 dollars in merchandise in three days, so I was pretty pumped. I signalled to my manager, who didn't quite get what I meant at first, so he didn't get the far entrance blocked. The thief continued on down the aisle, flaring out his coat (so as to ensure that it concealed the merchandise). I was at the entrance to the aisle, he was nearing the end. He made no indication that he knew that I was there. He turned right, I crossed aisles to try to keep sight of him - but he wasn't there! He had cut back the other way and slipped out of the store. His bike had been left by the far entrance, and he slipped out. A real pro - he could have had a nice house with the amount that he stole. Instead, he spent it on drugs. Eventually, he got caught, but not for months. The police had followed him around for a number of days and only finally caught him stealing something near the end of the second day. He was that good.

Another time, I received word that assistance was going to be needed at the front of the store - we were supposed to block the entrances. I jogged towards the front, and I saw a cracked-out looking guy was running through the store. Before I could do anything / it registered what was going on, he dropped his shoulder and bowled right over a short lady standing in the entrance, and she banged her head on a pole, knocking her unconscious. Staff stopped to help her while myself and three other employees chased him out of the store, across a busy street (traffic stopped) and tackled him in a Tim Horton's parking lot, but not before he had thrown a few punches and told us all that we were dead numerous times. Security finally caught up, cuffed him / read him his rights. He had stolen some electronics stuff from Sears and was being pursued by mall security (who had lost him, but he decided that it would be best to keep running / assault someone). Earlier in the day, he had apparently stolen a t-bone steak from our store, which he had thrown aside during his attempted escape. On the way back to the store, a woman offered to pay for the steak if we would just let him go - after all, he just needed something to eat! I pointed out that there is a shelter and soup kitchen not two blocks down the road, and that the t-bone was not likely for his own enjoyment. Turns out that the guy was out on parole and was wanted for some violation of a restraining order. We made the paper and everything (no names were mentioned, of course). Most importantly, the lady turned out to be okay - the ambulance came, but they let her go. Actually, the lady claimed that 'she had been trying to stop him'! If it's true, she's an idiot, but she probably deserved the attention after the knock to the head. The store was absolved of responsibility - no one was chasing the guy when he knocked her down!

Anyways, those are my best stories!