Here's a risky thing to do for a day's pay: An employee of a Rainier Valley store followed a shoplifter to the sidewalk and was threatened with a knife, but he continued to follow the shoplifter anyway, according to a police report.

It began last Wednesday around dinnertime, when a man working for Stewart Lumber, which sells construction supplies and tools (as a side note, employees there actually know stuff about construction and are super helpful), spotted a man with duffel bag in the store. The man wasn't attempting to buy anything, the duffel bag was full, and items the employee had just stocked on shelves were missing. When asked what was inside the bag, according to the employee's statement in a police report, the man simply replied "Fuck off."

The man left, but the employee tailed him down Rainier Avenue South for one block, until the man with the duffel bag turned around. The police records say that the suspect "pulled out a knife," pointed it at the employee, and told him to "stop following him.... Though scared, [the employee] continued to follow (at a greater distance)." When police arrived, they arrested the suspect and found $500 in goods labeled exactly as described by the employee, later corroborated by security footage from the store, showing the man taking the goods from store shelves.