MAN CUAGHT WITH 177 CIGARETTE PACKS IN TROUSERS

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Man Caught with 177 Cigarette Packs in Trousers

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested a shoplifter who aroused suspicion by waddling through a supermarket with 177 cigarette packets in his trousers.
"He'd filled his trousers in the truest sense of the word," a police spokesman for the western town of Olpe said Friday. "They were so full of stolen goods he could hardly walk."

The thief, in his twenties, was helped by three accomplices who formed a protective shield by holding newspapers in front of the man and his bulging trousers, police said.

Staff alerted police, who arrested the four as they attempted to transfer the loot into their car.