At 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 13, Sid Fox was found attempting to smuggle 27 textbooks from the USU bookstore. Fox was quickly apprehended by volunteer policeman, Dwight Newt.
“The sheer fact that he thought he could get away with it under my nose is probably the most ridiculous part,” Newt said.
“Well I was on duty in the bookstore,” Newt said of the encounter, “And that’s when I saw Fox attempting to steal all those textbooks. He wasn’t even conspicuous about it either. He had a stack of three small books in his beanie, about 10 in his large shirt, and the rest were in his over-sized sweatpants. What an idiot.”
Fox had duct taped the textbooks to his torso and legs in order to hide them in his clothing. Newt said Fox looked “like a guy who was trying to steal a bunch of books. I guess the only other thing he could have possibly looked like is an idiot.”
A bystander, Tim Halbert, noticed Fox’s strange behavior before he committed his crime.
“Yeah, he was acting really shifty and was trying to hold up his super baggy pants,” Halbert said. “The biggest giveaway that he was up to something was when he saw me looking at him he said ‘I ain’t stealing nothing. Go Aggies!’ Yeah, that was a bit bizarre.”
“My lawyer told me to say nothing so I don’t look 100% guilty,” Fox said. Fox will appear in court next month, the same day as Tristan Gunter, who started underground trade of campus store supplies.
