Concealing stolen items beneath apparel is a common form of shoplifting. Kids will put packs of chewing gum in their pockets. Some will put everything from film and batteries to candy and other small items under their clothes and walk out of the store.

As a counselor for both in-class and online stop theft classes I have heard of just about everything that has been hidden beneath clothing in order to steal – until now! As reported in www.dailymail.co.uk.

A woman has been arrested for shoplifting after walking out of a store with a color TV between her legs. Yes, you read that right, a LCD flat-screen TV! Care to guess the size? 26 inches? Not even close. Try 42 inches!

Police apprehended the woman - accompanied by her boyfriend - after she hobbled to the exit from the shop in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The TV cost £3,000 (or about $5,000USD). The TV was wedged between her thighs under her skirt!

The woman was able to carry the widescreen television clasped between her thighs to a nearby bus stop. She was caught when a suspicious store employee called police who arrested her on the bus.

The woman, nicknamed ‘Thunder Thighs’ by one Norwegian radio station, is 31 years old and still in custody being quizzed about possible other thefts in Norway.

Believe it or not this might not be the strangest Scandinavian shoplifting tale. In Sweden in 2005 a gang of dwarves were busted after it was discovered they were loaded on to long-distance buses in “holdalls” only to emerge in mid-journey to steal from suitcases before zipping themselves back in their hiding places.

Even Scandinavians could use a 8 hour shoplifting and theft class.