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    I just thought this was kind of funny

    I did not even know walmart had tv for $4.88? So how you can do a bate and switch of a price is beyond me. I think most people would have gotten away with it though.
    MONROE, La. - While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of felony theft.

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    According to police reports, Simms carried a 42-inch Sanyo Plasma TV to a self-checkout aisle after switching the original price tag of $984 with one for only $4.88. Wal-Mart Loss Prevention officers witnessed the alleged transaction and called police.

    When the store officers stopped Simms on his way out the door, he produced a receipt for a television purchased at the West Monroe Wal-Mart, authorities said.

    Simms told officers that he purchased a TV from the West Monroe store and planned to returrn that one and keep the one he purchased for only $4.88 from the Monroe store. He was then arrested and booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center.
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    People just make me sick sometimes, always trying to stick it to THE MAN.

    DH works @ the local mall and you wouldn't believe the people who steal. He'd have a nice older couple in and he'd ask how they were doing and the woman would say "I'm Blessed." Then she'd make off with 2 pairs of shoes.
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