Handcuffs Speak For Themselves
I worked at a pawn shop for a couple of years. We had a customer pawn a chainsaw, which turned up stolen and was confiscated by police, which causes the store to lose money and police to be aware that he is a known thief. He came back something close to three months later to pawn something else. I didn’t recognize him right away.
I asked him if he had pawned anything before and he said yes, so I asked his last name and entered it into our computer system, which promptly said STOLEN. First I thought, “Really? You came back here?” I gave my boss—it’s literally a two-person store—our not very frequently used signal to discreetly call the police.
Meanwhile, I started acting like I was working on his loan and stalled a bit. Just a couple minutes later, a couple of police cars pulled up and officers quietly walked in and he immediately gave up. I didn’t really have to say anything to him. The handcuffs spoke for themselves.
Story credit: Reddit / notsurethepoint