Experiences
May, 1974
It sounded like another crazy story out of Lotusland: Crooks--albeit reformed ones--teaching store clerks the elements of shoplifting? All under the approving eye of the law? This, we reasoned, had to be seen to be believed. So we sent our roving-eyed--but, as far as we know, not light-fingered--Bay Area reporter, Herbert Gold, to investigate. Here's his dispatch:This is the theater of the abhorred--a long and funny lesson in how to thwart the junkies, dipsos, whores and the merely greedy, demon...
