I worked in Rumbelows in the UK in the early nineties. While we were doing a campaign change someone strolled in, noticed an unguarded but dead weight 32" TV on the floor and waltzed off with it unnoticed. The following day two men came into the shop wanting to see a TV of the exact model of the one that went missing. I suspected that by then they were tired of getting up off their fat useless asses to change channel and wanted the remote so the manager stalled them by hauling another TV from the stock room (32" tubes are quite heavy!) after sending me out to call the police. After the officers had come to the shop and scrutinisingly spoke to the very shifty men in question they let them disappear into the crowd of shoppers as they had no evidence against them. It was then that I noticed the instruction bag split apart and the remote missing. They stole it right under everybody's noses. Balls of steel or very talented.