5 Gallon Shoplifter

Tue, 09 February 2010 Courtesy of: Ananova

A US man was arrested and charged with shoplifting after he was caught with 75 bottles of body lotion stuffed down his trousers.

Chamil Guadarrama, 30, was caught after a brief chase by store detectives at a shopping mall in Springfield, Massachusetts, reports "The Republican".

Sgt John Delaney said Guadarrama was wearing ordinary trousers but had string tied around each ankle to keep the bottles from falling out.

"They could not fit Mr Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over," he said.

A clerk at the Bath & Body Works store had spotted Guadarrama slipping bottles of lotion through his zip, and alerted security.

Guadarrama was challenged and told to stop but tried to make a run for it - despite the five gallons of body lotion in his trousers.

Sgt Delaney said Guadarrama "had a hard time running and was extremely bowlegged".

Guadarrama's legs were also "extremely chafed" when he was taken into custody following his run, Sgt Delaney added: "He needed the use of some of the stolen items."