They really thought this would work. The dumbest scams caught by staff.

Years ago I worked at a Walmart and this guy came in trying to return his Wii that apparently doesn't work.

I just kind of bought this for my kids last week and it's already broken, but they won't take it back because I lost my receipt.

The Wii in question was the most beat-up and disgusting-looking game cube I've ever

seen, like he found that in a landfill or something. I should also point out that I wasn't

working the return desk or even a cashier. I was stocking the food department. Turns out he was

trying to talk every employee in the store into either giving him a refund or a Wii. Years ago I worked at a small hardware store where they were constantly getting huge rolls of

copper wire stolen. One day this guy and his girlfriend came in to return a roll.

I was a few months in on the returns counter. They had no receipt and when I scanned the item

for the return, it was only doing the price per foot. I couldn't figure out how to get the price for the whole roll. I called the manager, and he comes out and right away knows there's no way these people bought a roll and returned it. So he asks when they bought it and they say two weeks ago, the common response. And my manager tells them, oh really, because the last time we sold an entire role was over three months ago.

The guy starts to get brave and tells him,

So, you're saying I stole it?

And my manager says, yes.

They end up leaving and left the roll behind.

Before they leave the store, the guy says, I'm coming back and bringing the cops.

Manager says, go ahead, that way you can explain to them how you stole the roll. My company

strings miles of copper wire and has lots of it stolen. We got calls from the local scrapyards asking

us to send our police over, because our crap has the company name stamped into the copper every

10 feet, and the company offers a reward to the scrapyards returning in thieves. You'd think people would learn, but we get one every few weeks.

Worked in a bottle shop.

One afternoon, a shady character entered and spent 10 minutes browsing the liquor section.

I stayed at the checkout and watched him on the CCTV.

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