Better Ideas from the Netherlands: Give a Shoplifter More Than Fifteen Seconds of Fame

"10,000th Shoplifter Gets Parade"
The Consumerist (May 12, 2006)

"A Dutch store owner, sick of shoplifters, decides to give the 10,000th shoplifter a big prize, including party hat, cake and an in-store marching band."

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Kudos to the store owner, for a truly inventive way of dealing with at least one shoplifter. The publicity may have both drawn customers - and discouraged other shoplifters from seeing what he'd try next.