One thief planned to fake a heart attack at a Florida Walmart, so in the meantime a friend of his could take a cart full of toys. Were they successful?
The entire plan got recorded on surveillance camera and it was all so orchestrated that it wasn't hard to figure the two of them were together.
The event took place on Tue. as the two men got arrested. They were 30 year-old Tarus Scott and 27 year-old Genard Dupree, according to ABC News.
In the shopping cart they took, they had: a motorized power wheel Barbie car, Leap frog tablet and a Barbie Glam vacation house. All of it made $369 of merchandise, Fox News noted.
The two men have prior arrests. Scott served a 10-year prison sentence for robbery at the Everglades Correctional Institute and Dupree has 24 prior arrests and is on probation for theft, at the moment.
The plan they had, apparently, was for one of them to fake a heart attack inside the store. As this happened, the other one left with the merchandise because costumers would be distracted with the "heart-attack."
This actually worked. What didn't work was the fact that they were caught on camera, so their faces are pretty visual. Also, the thief who had the "heart-attack" got up immediately after the friend left with the cart.
He did not only get up, but walked out of the store as if the heart-attack had passed in less than a minute. Now, the problem is that actual heart-attacks don't get miraculously solved.
In addition, authorities mentioned the fact that the "heart-attack" thief clutched his chest and fell immediately to the floor. An actual heart-attack doesn't work like that either. The person suffering it falls "progressively," to put it in a way.
Basically, the trick of these two thieves trying to fake a heart-attack to take toys with them didn't exactly work as planned.
