CCTV at Nepal Bazaar

I popped into Nepal Bazaar this morning for a quick browse, and got talking to the lady in charge. Outside, a couple of chaps were climbing about, fixing a new CCTV camera over the front little courtyard. They used to have one up there before, but every time they put the canopy over, it blocked the camera's view - which was obviously not ideal. In the summer they have quite a lot of clothes, cushions and rugs out there, out of sight of the counter. "It's not really a problem," the lady said. "Anyway, it's not the locals that are the trouble - it's the visitors."
She told me about an incident last summer, when two young men were keeping her talking at the desk while a third was trying jackets on outside - and she just happened to notice him stuff one of the jackets under his own coat. She ran outside, and leaned over the railings to catch him as he came down Backfold. "Here - that's my jacket you've got! I want it back!". She held her hand out to take it - and to her surprise, he gave it back to her. Then he and his friends ran off. When she talked to the police later, she found that there were actually five of them going round - which would have given her pause, if she'd known at the time - and they'd taken stuff from several shops round Hay over the day.