Goat Friday

More than mere goatery, the following would seem an example of what’s sometimes called reverse Darwinism in action...

A bungling German thief stole a pair of shoes in two different sizes and was caught when he went back to the shop to fix his mistake, decked out in the clothes he had also stolen, authorities say.

Police in the western city of Bielefeld say the shop owner recognised the 20-year-old shoplifter because the white shoes and sports jacket he wore were available only in his shop, and had been stolen just two days earlier.

I’ve printed out a copy of this story to give to my father-in-law, who has a rather similar story about a mate of his in London (circa early 1960s), called Wally.

The story goes that Wally one night forced entry into a shoe store by way of a skylight. He collected all the shoes in the display window into a sack and made good his escape. Upon examining his loot, he discovered that all the shoes were for left feet.

Wally then hatched a diabolical plan to liberate the matching right-footed shoes. He returned to the same shoe shop the following night... Entered through the same skylight...

And suddenly found himself in custody of the local constabulary, who were there waiting to ‘nick’ him, of course.

Poor old Wally, says my father-in-law, shaking his head.

 
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The above ‘welcome party’ of stuffed toys, etc., has been put together by some of us at the office to welcome back one of our colleagues. He is returning after ... having taken an RDO yesterday.

Yep, just a bit of Friday goatery, folks.