Watch: Man steals adult-store mannequin, returns for 'her' sexy lingerie

KOMO TV (Seattle) ^ | May 30, 2013 | Keith Eldridge

[Stoat]

SILVERDALE, Wash. -- A Bainbridge Island man is in jail for allegedly shoplifting a mannequin from an "adult entertainment" store and then coming back later the same night to steal sex toys and lingerie.

Lovers, formerly known as Lovers Package, claims to enhance people-to-people relationships, but one shoplifter wasn't interested in real people.

Instead, he wanted one of the store's sexy mannequins. 

"He basically just ran into one of the doors, tried to grab an entire mannequin and run off with it. Well, as he grabbed it the bottom half of the mannequin fell off. So he got the top half out the door with him and off he went," said Martin Walker, the store's marketing director.

Customers couldn't believe it when they heard about the brazen theft.

"That's pretty stupid," said customer Jessica Harris. "Why would you steal a mannequin? Go get the real thing. I guess he couldn't get the real thing."

But sheriff's deputies say the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Arthur Ray Brown, wasn't done yet. They say he came back later that night after the store closed. 

Wearing the wig he had taken from the mannequin, Brown allegedly smashed in the store's front window and stole some sex toys and lingerie.

Deputies arrived on scene moments later and found Brown riding his bike not far from the store. They say he'd left a trail of sex toys behind him.

Brown was arrested in connection with the burglary and is being held on $15,000 bail.

Lovers, which is based in Auburn, has 23 stores in Washington and Oregon, and Walker said the mannequins are simply there as props.

"Every once in a while we get people who come in and they kind of ask questions about the mannequin," he said. "But it's pretty strange that someone would go through that much trouble just to get their hands on one"

Brown reportedly cut his arm during the break in, but no one else was injured. 

Walker said the mannequins sell for around $600.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stoat]

Yes, there's a video report available at the original article link.

[Stoat]

Would you happen to know who is currently managing the "Lingerie Mannequin Kidnappers" pinglist?

[JohnBrowdie]

don’t you think he was actually looking for the bottom half of his new girlfriend?

[rockinqsranch]

Obviously a Liberal as he was into fantasy, not reality.

[Stoat]

don’t you think he was actually looking for the bottom half of his new girlfriend?

 

That's essentially the point made in the video report, and suggests that the perp may not know one end from the other.  Perhaps he'll get an education in such matters while in jail.

[KC_Lion]

[Stoat]

Obviously a Liberal as he was into fantasy, not reality.

 

Indeed, clearly a standard-issue obamavoter.  Perhaps the plan was to involve 'her' in some illegal-voting scheme....'she' has considerably more substance than a great many current Dem voters.

[tflabo]

You know the dating scene is rough out there when even the mannequins play hard to get.

[Stoat]

Deputies arrived on scene moments later and found Brown riding his bike not far from the store. They say he'd left a trail of sex toys behind him.

 

If you're going to use a bicycle as a getaway vehicle from a lingerie store heist, at least get a trailer of some sort to make the load more manageable.

 

[Army Air Corps]

What is that?

[Stoat]

You know the dating scene is rough out there when even the mannequins play hard to get.

 

And even half a mannequin and a few of her clothes nets you a $15,000. bail bill and some time in the.... errr....   pokey.

[tflabo]

This Beatles song comes to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tocAd0vA4

[KC_Lion]

That my FRiend is the Weighted Companion Cube,

He will never call you fat, threaten to murder you or stab you in the back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoYqPyOF18s

He is a Really Good Friend.

[BCW]

This would be harder to steal -- but might decrease sales...

[xp38]

[left that other site]

Somethin’ definitely WRONG with that boy.

[Slings and Arrows]

He'd heard there was a half-off sale.

[mylife]

"I could go for a little Doublemint gum!"

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Oh emm gee. Someone turned Chaz Bono into a mannequin.