8:18 am on Friday February 27, 2009
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
Local Wal-Mart heist: Too obvious to be a crime?
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The Post and Courier has a great little story about two people that dressed as Wal-Mart employees and, essentially, just tried to walk out the door with thousands of dollars in electronics from the Summerville store.
Dressed in the standard-issue khaki pants and blue shirts they managed to get into the storage area, load up a cart, and nearly get it to their truck, until a suspicious employee encouraged their flight from the store. -- Apparently it's not the first time the tactic has been used at area stores.
Update February 27, late afternoon: ABC News 4 has a few more details.
h/t to The Charleston City Paper.