A city dog groomer has warned businesses to beware of a 10-year-old ‘Oliver Twist’ type thief whom – he is almost certain – ‘relieved’ him of €700 in cash this week.
Jimmy Kennedy, who runs the Hounddog Dog Grooming business at Raven Terrace, suspects that a boy aged ‘around 10 to 12’ swiped the cashbox containing the money.
Shortly before 5pm on Wednesday, the youngster entered his premises and told Jimmy Kennedy that he was ‘waiting for his mother‘ to collect a dog being groomed there.
The boy – fair haired, about 5’ tall, with a freckled face and wearing a grey tracksuit – left shortly after, but when the woman later arrived to collect the dog, a twist in the tail emerged.
She told Jimmy Kennedy that she had no son in that age bracket, but the proprietor didn’t smell a rat until he went to get change for the woman from the cashbox under the counter.
“I couldn’t believe it. There wasn’t a trace of the cashbox. This was all hard earned money for the past week or so but it had just disappeared.”
For more on the daylight theft, see this week’s Galway City Tribune
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