License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver by Rick Harrison

Author:Rick Harrison [Harrison, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2011-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

We have a way of dealing with people who steal things. Corey’s pretty good at stuff like this, and one day someone reached over the counter and stole a Rolex. We caught him red-handed, dead to rights, stealing a Rolex out of the case.

It’s one of those things where you can call the cops. They’re going to give the guy a ticket or take him to jail. If they press charges, he’s not going to show up in court. This whole ordeal is likely to waste six months of my life.

Someone in the shop—I won’t say who—asked the guy, “So, you want an ass-beating or you want to go to jail?”

Well, any self-respecting criminal will take the ass-beating any time. This guy was no exception. So this unnamed employee walks up on him and spits in his face. Then the unnamed employee says, “Wipe that off your face and I’ll break your nose.”

The guy just stands there, and the unnamed employee says, “OK, now give me your driver’s license or ID.” The guy starts hemming and hawing—“No, don’t do that.” The employee looks at him like he’s going to make good on his promise to break the guy’s nose, so the guy reaches into his wallet and gives him his driver’s license.

The employee calmly walks behind the counter, to the wall near where Old Man sits, and pins the driver’s license to the wall.

“Oh, no, man,” the Rolex-stealer says. “You can’t do that.”

“I can’t? Why don’t you call the cops and tell them that?”

“Oh, man, now you’re going to make me go to the DMV?”

We figure it’s worse to go to the DMV for six hours to get an ID than it is to go to jail. Most of the guys we’ve caught stealing seem to agree.

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