MONROE, La. - While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of felony theft.

According to police reports, Simms carried a 42-inch Sanyo Plasma TV to a self-checkout aisle after switching the original price tag of $984 with one for only $4.88. Wal-Mart Loss Prevention officers witnessed the alleged transaction and called police.

When the store officers stopped Simms on his way out the door, he produced a receipt for a television purchased at the West Monroe Wal-Mart, authorities said.

Simms told officers that he purchased a TV from the West Monroe store and planned to return that one and keep the one he purchased for only $4.88 from the Monroe store. He was then arrested and booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center

Big brother is watching you idiots. :lol:

Even the stupidest cashier would pause at a $4.88 price tag on a 42-inch plasma TV. Let's hope the only TV he sees in jail is a 13-inch b&w with rabbit ears and gigantic knobs that never quite get the picture in focus. :lol: What a MORON this guy is! :brent

oh come on....he could have switched it with a more believable price than that.

oh come on....he could have switched it with a more believable price than that.

Seriously!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Even the stupidest cashier would pause at a $4.88 price tag on a 42-inch plasma TV.

That's why he went to a self-checkout.

I'd like to know how he got that TV anywhere without an associate. Not like they keep the TVs out on the floor. And last time I checked, Wal-Mart didn't have flatbeds.

That's why he went to a self-checkout.

I'd like to know how he got that TV anywhere without an associate. Not like they keep the TVs out on the floor. And last time I checked, Wal-Mart didn't have flatbeds.

:yeahthat

They don't just magically get into the carts. :lol:

When I worked in a sporting goods store in High School, people used to try that crap all the time.

I'm sorry sir, but I'm not going to sell you a pair of $119.99 Air Jordans for $9.99.

I may be a teenager, but I'm not stupid.

;)

Wow, this guy had some nerve didn't he?

Now that's some brass ones. :lol:

Now that's some brass ones. :lol:
:rofl:

:lol: thats hilarious!!

Another candidate for World's Stupidest Criminals... :lol:

There's a such thing as self-checkout?

There's a such thing as self-checkout?
Oh yes. It's especially popular in the supermarkets...you run your own things through the self checkout line and pay by debit or credit card. You don't have that in Canada?

Oh yes. It's especially popular in the supermarkets...you run your own things through the self checkout line and pay by debit or credit card. You don't have that in Canada?
Not around here anyway. :confused: We get actual people to scan our things, then we pay by cas... I mean, credit or debit card.

Forgot there's no such thing as cash anymore.