I'm wandering around a major shopping mall in Toronto, and as I pass by the entrance of a major department store two casually dressed men wearing black leather gloves and headsets walk up to an unassuming teen aged (I think, I'm bad at guessing ages) girl with a backpack who seems to have just purchased something from the store (there's a bag of merchandise in her hand). The two averaged sized men swiftly came beside her and stop her. One looks inside her bag of merchandise, and the other grabs her arm and holds onto it while he looks inside her backpack. It looked like a pretty routine, "the alarm beeped when you walked out of the store, so we must have forgotten to take the tags of your merchandise" kind of stop, except for I never heard any beeping (maybe it happned before I arrived on the scene) and of course there were the fancied up men. Still grabbing her arm, they take her back into the store, and towards the escalator. Being the nosy girl I am, always wanting a piece of the action, I decide to follow them in. They go upstairs and take her into some back room (I wasn't following close enough to really see where they went). All the employees are staring and whispering, but none of the shoppers seem to notice that anything's up.
I wonder what happened in this story half and hour before and after my rendition of it...
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A short while later, in the same mall, but in a very different department store, a well-dressed man walks by, whispering into a walkie talkie "yup, I just walked by them...the two of them". I looked over to see who he was refering to hoping for some more excitement in my day. The walkie-talkie man kept walking and by now has disappeared, whereas I casually loiter around the "two of them" but don't seem to see anyone else who is as interested in them as I am...but I'm sure they're around. After a little bit, nothing seems to happen, and I make my departure. A lady can only loiter so long in the Men's Department.
I wonder what happened in this story half and hour before and after my rendition of it...
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