WFAA Rewind: Strange targets for thefts in North Texas

The holiday season brings out the Grinchy side of people. WFAA's Chris Sadeghi checked out the lengths people would go to steal just about anything.DALLAS — Holiday shopping is just around the corner, which means thieves of all gifts and goodies will no doubt be looking to steal Christmas.show the ever-changing methods and targets of thievery. Some schemes of the 1970s were the common copping of hub caps and CB radios.

That explanation did not suffice for one victim who promised a lot more than prevention if she caught the culprit. “I would have grabbed my butcher knife if I had seen them and then you would be calling the homicide department.”tried to catch thieves in a less violent way. The WFAA crew left a shopping bag filled with packages sitting by itself on the concourse of the Town East Mall to see how many shoppers would stop to pick it up and, more importantly, what they did with it.

To the surprise of the reporter, most were good, honest people who took the bag to the information desk. However, the same could not be said for a young boy who picked up the bag and left the mall with two women.WFAA Rewind: The style revolutions that lasted. And those that did not.

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