The Female Impersonator Who Could Afford To Steal
Atlanta, GA
At Phipps Plaza, someone called police and said a man dressed like a woman walked into Barney’s New York and wrote a bad check for some items. Two officers scoured the mall and found the female impersonator, who was now standing with a 33-year-old male magazine editor. The female impersonator took off running. Police detained the magazine editor and determined he had nothing to do with the bad check. According to the police report, the female impersonator wrote a bad check for $274.32 … and the female impersonator also left behind his purse, which contained $306.52 in cash. (Note: For those of you who despise math, the female impersonator apparently had enough cash on him to cover whatever he bought with the bad check.) His purse also contained more fake checks and a fake North Carolina ID, police said.
Found in Creative Loafing
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
Well, DUH! Why use cash when you’ve got a purseful of bad checks and fake IDs?! Besides It’s no secret that most shoplifters are carrying enough money to cover the purchases. Why should check-passers be any different? The motivations for these crimes seem to be more about the thrill of the act, or the desire to have the item and the money too, rather than the desire to have an item one cannot afford. But a man in a dress is probably too conspicuous to get away with either for long.