Preacherman
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Well, this ain't political, but it's certainly legal, so here goes... 
From Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155178,00.html):
Special in the Deli Section
Sunday, May 01, 2005
A supermarket shoplifting incident went hilariously awry, according to police in Slidell, La.
Cops say 19-year-old Devyn Coleman was the last customer in the Winn-Dixie (search) supermarket as it closed up at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Even though he'd been seen taking things off shelves, he strolled empty-handed through the cash registers.
Asked what happened to the items, Coleman took off running — and slammed face-first into a locked glass door.
Employees dragged the dazed man back to an office room and called police.
But before the cops showed up, Coleman allegedly climbed up into the crawl space above the store's drop ceiling.
Police arrived to find him scrambling around inside the 4-foot-high space, his feet punching through ceiling tiles as he failed to find his footing on the steel support structure.
"This is one of the funniest and most bizarre cases we've ever had," said Slidell police Capt. Rob Callahan. "One of the officers said it was like chasing a rat through an attic."
Coleman almost eluded his pursuers by smashing through drywall into a storage room, but he darted back into his hole when cops entered the room.
The chase ended when he finally fell through the ceiling and landed in an open meat case.
Coleman got up to run again, but couldn't get much traction on the raw steaks and ground beef, and was finally brought to heel by a police dog.
"With all those steaks and hamburgers and hot dogs, that dog must have felt like he was in canine heaven," said Callahan. "But he did what he was trained to do and clamped down on the suspect's right leg instead."
Police found $60.33 worth of supermarket merchandise on Coleman, including several packets of hair dye, six cigarette lighters, a few black markers and a night light.
He also had a glass pipe and admitted to having recently smoked methamphetamine.
From Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155178,00.html):
Special in the Deli Section
Sunday, May 01, 2005
A supermarket shoplifting incident went hilariously awry, according to police in Slidell, La.
Cops say 19-year-old Devyn Coleman was the last customer in the Winn-Dixie (search) supermarket as it closed up at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Even though he'd been seen taking things off shelves, he strolled empty-handed through the cash registers.
Asked what happened to the items, Coleman took off running — and slammed face-first into a locked glass door.
Employees dragged the dazed man back to an office room and called police.
But before the cops showed up, Coleman allegedly climbed up into the crawl space above the store's drop ceiling.
Police arrived to find him scrambling around inside the 4-foot-high space, his feet punching through ceiling tiles as he failed to find his footing on the steel support structure.
"This is one of the funniest and most bizarre cases we've ever had," said Slidell police Capt. Rob Callahan. "One of the officers said it was like chasing a rat through an attic."
Coleman almost eluded his pursuers by smashing through drywall into a storage room, but he darted back into his hole when cops entered the room.
The chase ended when he finally fell through the ceiling and landed in an open meat case.
Coleman got up to run again, but couldn't get much traction on the raw steaks and ground beef, and was finally brought to heel by a police dog.
"With all those steaks and hamburgers and hot dogs, that dog must have felt like he was in canine heaven," said Callahan. "But he did what he was trained to do and clamped down on the suspect's right leg instead."
Police found $60.33 worth of supermarket merchandise on Coleman, including several packets of hair dye, six cigarette lighters, a few black markers and a night light.
He also had a glass pipe and admitted to having recently smoked methamphetamine.
