Sticky fingers, or something like that anyway.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/359770p-306402c.html

Come on. This is pretty ridiculous.

A literally sticky-fingered bandit who used a stick and double-sided tape to fish cash out of an upper East Side church collection box was busted by a cop posing as a parishioner, authorities said yesterday.
Police believe Gilbert Alicea, 41, was ripping off the St. Vincent Ferrer Church for months before a 19th Precinct plainclothes cop nabbed him on Oct. 19, sources said.
Since the summer, Alicea spent hours at the Lexington Ave. church, kneeling in prayer and schmoozing with priests, while his female accomplice pretended to pray the rosary and act as a lookout, sources said.
When the church was relatively empty, Alicea dipped a stick with double-sided tape into the donation box slot - labeled "For the Poor" - and snared cash, authorities said.

What more can be said. It can happen to you. I’ve known individuals that could use tape and a pen to steal bills through holes not much bigger than the pen in tamper-evident bags. That would be those bags that seal up for one-time use, typically for bank deposits from commercial locations.

Since these poor boxes are generally not accounted for at the time of collection this type of theft would be relatively hard to detect. So be aware.

Rob
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