When The 'Jig' Is Up: A Choose Your Own Adventure

Let's say you have a taste for earrings that run into high prices, a penchant for thieving, you don't know the value right off hand but you've recently stolen earrings from the storage area where items were being kept for a college fundraiser - do you bring them back to the same business that originally donated the earrings, in the original box, the packaging, everything?

Now, what if they tell you it'll take all day to do the appraisal and you leave the earrings with the business, along with your name and phone number. When they call you back to the store, saying the appraisal's finished, and willy-nilly, the police arrive -

Is there a possibility that the jig isn't up; can you talk your way out of this unfortunate series of circumstances? turn to page 23

Or is the 'jig' up? turn to page 31



page 23 "I found these in a dumpster on my way to work," you say. You smile, half-eagerly, wondering if now is the proper time to tell the police offers that you annually give money to the Police Officer's Association of North Dakota. Would that change anything? A heavy-set officer, stub-nosed, arrests you and your last thought as you are conveyed to the station-house, is wondering if you'll be on the news. And if so, is this a sort of fame, or is this, the constitution of small-time infamy; will you be the subject of the stupidest crimes of the year email forward? You've made the wrong choice. The 'Jig' was up. The End.


page 31 Brad Wimmer, the owner of Wimmer's Jewelry, in Fargo North Dakota:

"He knew the jig was up when police came in the store," Wimmer said.

Man Arrested in 'Goofy' Jewelry Theft (Washington Post)