two wealthy California women, former dentists, arrested for serial shoplifting

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3. Kleptos are kleptos -True story

My mother’s close friend’s daughter came to Jamaica to study medicine in the late 70s - pre cameras and security folks in stores.
Both of her parents were surgeons - she was by no means poor. I didn’t know her but mum asked me to show her around.
I took her to the campus bookstore and discovered later that she had more high end medical books than she paid for. Then days later I took her to a pharmacy. She walked through the aisles singing ‘this I’ll pay for, this I won’t’. I told her I’d wait for her outside. Enough of her shit.
Told mum sorry, I had no plan of being seen with her in public. She was a genuine kleptomaniac - eventually it led to her divorce - the poor man couldn’t handle it. It was always settled discreetly.