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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

He seems all right to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

He’s all right, I guess

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Probably gonna sell them on onefoottwoshoes.com

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is he has a new romantic interest who is one legged that he's trying to impress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Is her name Peg?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Invite a lot of really bad dancers to buy all the left shoes for cheap

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

What are you gonna do, chase him? With only your left shoe?? This guy's smart

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If it’s wrong to take the right shoes, then would it be it right to take the left shoes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

It would be right to take the wrong shoes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

There was an old wacky-crooks story about a one-legged man who kept getting arrested stealing display shoes from shops when they matched his remaining leg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I'm just saying, renaming your store to "53 Shoes" after this would be really funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

These shoes will claim they're victims of a crime and they're right!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, stealing all the right sided shoes from a shoe store just to irritate Barry Allen is absolutely something Thawne would come up with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

This sounds like leftist propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

also could be the plot of a Phineas and Ferb episode.

BEHOLD, MY RIGHT FOOT SHOE STEAL INATOR

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

If you only take what is right then you will never be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Well we do have a sense of humour

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

What did he do with the wrong ones?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

In B4 someone blames the Left

[–] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Bet the store owner was hopping mad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

There must be something wrong with this man’s sole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That joke was already made in the article.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

I didn't read it as it's the Daily Heil.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

There's an article?

[–] [email protected] 134 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

If he stole all of the right shoes, that means everything's left.
And if everything's left, did he take anything?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There's plenty left: all the wrong ones.

Seems pretty sinister of him...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You looking for a job as his attorney?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Prosecutors hate this one weird trick!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

(☞゚ヮ゚)☞

[–] [email protected] 60 points 22 hours ago

He seems like an all right guy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

If the shoe don't fit you must acquit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

He's too far into the far-right spectrum!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

A righteous man, I see.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I wish that I could say that it isn't right, but.....

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

In fact, it seems it was all right

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

All that was left was left.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

….why? Was it just the display shoe or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I wondered too and bravely ventured onto the dailymail website when the comments left me hanging. Your hunch was right, the only this i can add is that he walked out

seemingly unaware that they were not matching pairs

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago

There’s an old myth about a shipment of playing cards. The guy buys a whole container of playing cards, but removes the same card from all packs. The shipment is confiscated and later sold for almost nothing because the packs are all incomplete. He then buys the shipment and restores the packs. All this was cheaper than paying import duties.

Maybe this guy is playing a long game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago