By Chris Morran
Holy cow!
An 18-year-old Virginia man was arrested earlier this week after somehow managing to slip past the Walmart greeters and loss-prevention staff with 26 gallons of milk -- all while crawling around in a cow suit.
"This is probably the most unique effort of shoplifting that I've ever seen," said Bill Kennedy, a spokesman for the Stafford County sheriff's office. "It might've been a prank that went wrong, but it isn't so funny when a suspect breaks the law."
While no one in the Stafford, Virginia Walmart did anything to stop the cow-suited culprit when he was strolling around the store on all fours, he was spotted near the store handing out the stolen moo juice to passersby.
The belligerent bovine was later spotted "skipping down the sidewalk" in the cow suit by Walmart staffers.
He was later apprehended, out of his costume, at a nearby McDonald's enjoying a Happy Meal. Police found the cow garb in the suspect's car but just to make sure it wasn't the world's biggest coincidence, they took the teen back to Walmart where he was identified as the suspect.
It was unclear Wednesday how he managed to get all of that milk out of the busy store on Garrisonville Road. Sadly, there was no surveillance tape recording the theft. Kennedy said the sheriff’s office was unable to get store video footage of the crime in progress, but said it "sure would have been interesting to see."
Concluding his remarks, Kennedy noted that , "I guess it would be fair to say that Walmart had a cow!" "Then again," he quipped, "why have a cow when the milk is free?"
