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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.
The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.
“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”
Policy in most chains is to document and tabulate. It’s not worth it to prosecute until they have documentation that the amount you’ve stolen has reached the threshold of felony theft. Check the statutes in your area, the dollar value isn’t indexed to inflation, so the threat of incarceration to people just trying to get by grows every year.