Mall marauders

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"It's a faceless crime," says Mike, Rebecca's husband, who asked that their last names not be used. Or it was, until Target let Mike look at its surveillance photos of the couple who tried to buy the iPods. "They're not kids," he reports, "probably thirty to fifty; the male was Caucasian, the female, hard to tell...dressed fairly nicely." While Rebecca and Mike didn't have to pay for the stolen items, they were stunned to learn that not one salesperson asked the crooked couple for identification. So when their new Visa cards arrived, they didn't sign them. Instead, on the signature line, they wrote an instruction: "See ID."   

[Originally published in December, 2009.]