Flimflam at Super Fresh on West Bridge Street
By Linda Seida, Staff Writer
NEW HOPE — It’s an old con, a flimflam that short-changes a store clerk.
It has been around for generations because it works.
A cashier at the Super Fresh on West Bridge Street was conned out of $100 at 1:39 a.m. Saturday after a black man paid for a 99-cent drink, according to New Hope police Chief Michael Cummings.
The customer paid for the drink with a $100 bill and received his change. He then proceeded to set down another bill, and another, asking for more change, confusing the cashier until she had given him $100 more than he was entitled to, according to police.
”It’s an old-time skill,” Chief Cummings said. “The gift of gab, switching things and confusing people. Oftentimes they’ll approach somebody younger. They rush them and get them confused.”
Police did not know the age of the cashier.
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