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Chairs don't tend to move of their own volition, so the officers naturally became suspicious

Boston Police report officers investigating a break-in at a Back Bay convenience store early Sunday morning "noticed a chair, tucked in the corner behind the register, slightly move."

So they moved the chair, inside the Quality Mart, 21 Mass. Ave., some more and found Michael Galloway, 42, of Milton, behind it - along with "a pair of gloves, a black and yellow handled screw driver and a black bag [and] two 1.75 liter bottles of gray goose, 27 boxes of Newport cigarettes and 3 men’s Speed Stick deodorant sticks."

Coupled with the shattered glass all over the floor from the store's front door, that was good enough to put Galloway under arrest for breaking or entering a building or ship, intent to commit a felony and, of course, possession of burglarious tools.

Later, police say, officers matched the car keys they found on Galloway with an Accord parked in front of a hydrant by the store - inside of which they found "a brown box containing an orange container and a white trash bag full of scratch tickets."

Officers returned the vodka, ciggies, deodorant and scratch ticket to the store; they kept the screwdriver and gloves as evidence.

Innocent, etc.

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He's old enough to know better.

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when has that ever stopped anyone?

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At least he took personal hygiene into account.

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I wouldn't go so far as to call for the execution of a 42 year old for the crimes listed here, but I read the post about "old enough to know better" and that reminded me to update the list.

EDIT: I had a whole list, but somebody would probably point out an exception to me, and honestly, I don't feel better for having posted it. Don't worry, be happy.

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Can you really steal scratch tickets in bulk?

Why wouldn't they be locked up in a safe? And if you could snag them, I would think the state lottery would be smart enough to refuse to pay out a winning ticket if it hadn't been properly sold by a machine.

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