An Arkansas waitress was stunned to receive her very own credit card from a customer after her purse was stolen two days prior.

Flora Lunsford, who works at Shannon's Restaurant in Pine Bluff, was ready to run the bill for Shamon West after his meal on Wednesday when she spotted her own name on the card he gave her, Arkansas Online reports.

Reportedly “having no desire to pay for the fellow's meal,” the 58-year-old woman instead phoned the police, who arrested the 21-year-old on the spot. Authorities soon found that West also possessed Lunsford’s driver’s license, social security card and other credit cards, Fox 59 reports.

The trouble initially began on June 16, when Lunsford’s car was broken into at the United Filling Station, two blocks away from Shannon’s Restaurant, KATV reports.

While Lunsford was inside the gas station’s store, surveillance footage later detailed a suspect breaking into her vehicle, stealing her purse, and getting back into his own car. Authorities say the suspect proceeded to drive to the side of the gas station and pick up a man who had shoplifted a drink. Together, the pair drove away.

It is not immediately clear at this time if and what role West played in the theft.

Arrested on charges of forgery, theft by receiving, and three additional outstanding warrants, West was booked into Jefferson County Jail.

Police remain perplexed as to how West thought he could pull off the stunt of paying Lunsford for his meal with her own credit card in the first place.

"As a side note, the driver’s license, as all do, had her picture on it," law enforcement officials told KATV. "Therefore, you would think he should have known what she looked like. Yet, he still handed her own credit card to her."


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I'm guessing that we all look alike to the thief.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
"As a side note, the driver’s license, as all do, had her picture on it," law enforcement officials told KATV. "Therefore, you would think he should have known what she looked like. Yet, he still handed her own credit card to her."

The thought probably never even occurred to him. He probably never looked at the name on the credit card to see if it was a male or female card holder.

Certainly not the brightest bulb in the pack.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
"As a side note, the driver’s license, as all do, had her picture on it," law enforcement officials told KATV. "Therefore, you would think he should have known what she looked like. Yet, he still handed her own credit card to her.”

I don’t look anything like my driver’s license photo. I’ve had a few jobs where I had to card people and have seen a lot of ID’s where the photo doesn't look anything like the person presenting it, but they had secondary ID’s that checked out. I mean, it happens.

He was stupid for stealing, and stupid for trying to use the card. I’m glad the waitress was the one to get her own card back and call the bastard in. That’s the noteworthy part of the story, imo.

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and three additional outstanding warrants

You don't say?

She learned why you don’t leave your purse/wallet/whatever in your vehicle and likely in plain sight. Glad the thief was an idiot.

Flora Lunsford:

Oh, wait! No! That's not her!

Navin R. Johnson: "Ya, that's fine. We take Mastercharge... Wanna fill-up, uh, Mrs. Nussbaum?"

Punk: "Oh, I'm MR. Nussbaum."

Punk #1: "Ya, that's his wife's card."

Navin R. Johnson: "Wife's card, huh?"

Punk #1: "Ya, I'll vouch for him."

Navin R. Johnson: "OK! As long as we have a voucher!"

Thank you, Mr. Acavano!

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Shamon

There's the first clue.

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Arkansas thief tried paying waitress with her own stolen credit card

It takes a special kind of stupid... which unfortunately is no longer found only in Arkansas.

There was a similar kind of stupid a while back where a thief tried to sell a person their own stolen bicycle. It turned out about like you would expect...

HaHa, reminds me of my buddy, a Ft. Worth Police officer, who left his personal vehicle in the shop for some minor collision repair. Couple of days later, about 25 miles away from the shop, he's driving down the freeway in his patrol vehicle and a shop employee passes him driving HIS (the officer's) PERSONAL VEHICLE. I mean, really, who passes a police car on the freeway!!

I made a OMVI arrest one night and locked up the dude. After going back into service, I was sent to look for a vehicle that was involved in a gasoline theft from a BP Station. And I found it. After I stopped the car, the driver gave me his license. And it was the license of the guy I had just locked up.
Double bonus points!