Wrong place, wrong time

This dude is one very, very unlucky thief:

A woman whose purse was stolen and the thief who took it inadvertently stood next to each other at a Prescott [Arizona] bookstore _ she to complain about the unauthorized use of her credit card, he to get some cash.

The 59-year-old victim went to Hastings Books and Music on Tuesday to tell the store that someone had stolen her purse and used her credit card to buy $200 in DVDs.

Minutes later, while the woman was standing there, a man came up to the counter and tried to return eight DVDs in exchange for cash. The two didn't recognized each other, and the woman even politely made room for the man when he walked up.

When the manager came to handle both transactions, she connected the dots.

It was "as if the world had stopped," said Susan Murphy, another customer who had been browsing through magazines.

The manager "looked at the receipt, looked at the elderly lady and then at the young man standing next to her and said, 'This is the transaction,'" Murphy said. "It just blew us all away."

The cops caught his unlucky ass and he admitted to using her card to rack up over $700 in charges. Which, I guess, means that Arizona cashiers aren't too stringent about checking for ID on credit card transactions. Unless the guy's name actually was Edith or something like that.