Moment ‘wiley burglar pretends to be a clothing MANNEQUIN in shop window before stealing jewellery after closing time’
THIS is the hilarious moment a man posed motionless in a shop window in a cunning ploy to trick shop staff he was a mannequin.
He could be seen on CCTV striking a pose and holding a bag in a window of the store in Warsaw.
The creative thief is also accused of stealing items from a second mall and and faces up to 10 years in prison for burglary and theft.
The trick payed off as Warsaw Police said that staff and shoppers failed to notice anything untoward as the man stood frozen in the window and tried to blend in with the other mannequins.
The cops said that he was still until he thought the coast was clear and then casually browsed through various departments after closing time – before helping himself to jewellery.
Despite thinking he had got away with the stunt the man was eventually busted by security staff.
He is also accused of two other similar sneaky crimes.
In the first, police say he dined late at a restaurant in a second shopping centre and waited for it to close.
They said he then entered a clothing store and “exchanged his clothes for new ones”, before returning to the restaurant for second helpings.
He was caught on CCTV slipping under the clothing store’s partially open shutters.
Robert Szumiata, a police spokesman, said that in a third incident the man waited until after closing time before he struck under the cover of darkness.
He said the man “took money from several cash registers and tried to steal other items”.
Police have released pictures of the suspect‘s eventual arrest.
A man aged 22 has been remanded in custody for three months, prosecutors in Warsaw said.