Making the rounds on social media this July 12, 2017, is a super high-definition video showing a woman in office attire allegedly shoplifting from a pushcart located in the Central Business District area on two separate occasions:

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Here's a translation of the Chinese words at the start of the video:

20/06/2017

(She) came to my store and stole a watch.

10/07/2017

(She) came and stole a watch again. This is too much.

I heard she's called Anne, and works nearby at the Raffles CBD area. She looks classy, but her inner character is xxx. For her to have stooped so low, I think she must have been highly educated.

If you are her friends, colleagues or family members, I hope you could persuade her to come back....

Thank you for sharing.

Video indeed shared widely

The video has been shared widely mostly because the woman's brazen shoplifting antics were caught on camera clearly, together with her facial features and all, making her highly recognisable.

This, in turn, generated a considerable number of comments.

These include:

1. Not judging a book by its cover

2. Highlighting how cheap the watches are in the first place

3. Suggesting the woman might be a kleptomaniac

This last comment is perhaps an issue that has recently been well-documented in the press.

In April 2017, a Nanyang Technological University (NTU) professor admitted to stealing items worth more than S$450 in total from petrol stations, including pineapple tarts, toiletries and electronic accessories.

In May, 2017, a serial shoplifter and former engineer facing eight charges of theft and one of fraudulent possession was found dead at the foot of a block in Sengkang a day before her pre-trial conference for her latest theft spree. Her past cases went all the way back to 2005.

People suffering from kleptomania have a recurrent urge to steal, although not for greed.

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