Q. What do you do with 16 deodorant sticks and a ladder?

A. If you've just been nabbed by Boston Police after walking out of a Walgreens with them without, allegedly, paying for them, you hand them over to be used as evidence against you.

Sure, that's no secret, but a Dorchester man now faces charges of larceny and shoplifting (and presumably a ban on entering the store) after an incident at the Walgreens at Warren and Quincy streets in Roxbury yesterday afternoon. He allegedly told officers it was a mistake to take the ladder because it slowed him down by a considerable degree.

Fresh as a daisy until proven to stink.