“Hey! You! You can’t just walk out of my store with a big screen TV! You have to pay for that!”
“No, I don’t.”
“Yes, you do.”
“Nah, I’m crazy. I can just take this now. The police won’t touch me.”
“That’s your plan? That’s your Get Out of Jail Free card?”
“Yup.”
“Well, that’s crazy enough that it just might work. Go on. It’s yours.”
In California, theft has to amount to $1,000 dollars before the police will be even come out. Businesses report criminals bringing in calculators to keep the theft under $1,000.