Posted on 03/15/2022 10:53:12 AM PDT by simpson96
SEGUIN, Texas – Now you see him now you don’t. Seguin Police Department is on the lookout for a magician who pulled a trick right up his sleeve to several employees at a Walmart making them believe that they have given him the wrong change.
Police seek magician who tricks Walmart employees into giving wrong change (SBG San Antonio)
This magician has played this trick on two different occasions at the Walmart in Seguin, Texas, on January 10 and again on February 12.
While using a sleight of hand trick, the suspect would count the change in front of the employee and show that he was short-changed, while using the other hand to pocket a portion of the money. But that’s not all, the suspect had another outfit ready to repeat the same trick to the Walmart employees.
If you have any information or recognize this magician, you can contact Detective Schramm at 830-379-2123.
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I just rewatched Paper Moon this week.
This hustle has been going on for as long as there has been money.
He’s going to make his freedom disappear with a trick like that.
are we sure he wasn’t short changed. Math is hard.
That’s why you need cashiers who can actually calculate change, instead of depending on the register to tell them the amount, and then count it into the customer’s hand.
Don’t some walmarts usually allow 60” tv’s and shopping carts full of groceries to just walk out the door?
Don’t they have insurance?
Harry The Hat Lives!
“are we sure he wasn’t short changed. Math is hard.”
I often use $2 bills just for fun. Can’t even say how many times some young know-it-all has taken my $2 bill and paid me back change for a $20.
Wow. At the time when shoplifters are stealing at will, the cops are trying to find a man who made off with 79 cents...
That’s only allowed for certain demographics.
Why would he waste his skills at Walmart?
He could do a lot better on Wall Street.
This sounds different from the old countdown scam, in that the crook is actually removing some of the money instead of getting the clerk to believe that $10 is part of the crook’s money when he’s already used it to pay for the purchase.
When I was working as a convenience-store clerk, 40-some years ago, someone would try it every couple of weeks. As you say, it goes back a long time before then.
So, how much did this sleight-of-hand cost Walmart? Fifty cents? Three bucks? Ten bucks? Twenty? Whatever it was, it was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket compared to all of the theft and shoplifting that goes on every day, and which goes unprosecuted. And don’t get me started about BLM’s massive shoplifting.
So there were 2 incidents which presumably were not detected until they counted the till. Then they examined the surveillance tapes and found the same guy twice. That is a lot of effort, unless of course they have some tech that can do it automatically. Impressive.
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