FOR those of a certain vintage, the name 'the Wet Bandits' will bring back memories of the 90s hit movie Home Alone - now pharmacy staff in Niagara Falls have foiled the Shampoo Bandits.
Employees at Pine Pharmacy identified a man who entered the store and smuggled up to 30 bottles of shampoo inside his jacket, before making a clean getaway with the hair products.
Using CCTV local police were able to link the not-so grubby crook to "a multitude of shampoo thefts" in the area - but while cops thought they'd found their man, Pine Pharmacy fell victim to a second raid, with a review of security tapes revealing another shampoo bandit was on the loose pinching eight bottles of shampoo.
Both suspects are still on the run, with the public urged to be on the lookout for a man and woman with 'fabulous' hair.
Meanwhile, a pharmacy in the Canadian town of Barrie fell victim to a sweet-smelling thief, who pinched a bottle of perfume.
BarrieToday.com reported that the male criminal, who was wearing beige pants, a baseball cap and green/yellow/red striped sweater smuggled the products out of the store under his top.
Police believe the man may have been accompanied by a woman in her 40s who left the store a short time later, setting off the security alarm as her purse contained some make-up which she claimed had been given to her as a gift.
Could these scented international crimes be the work of an international grooming operation?
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