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A woman charged with stealing 905 designer handbags worth over $218,000 over a period of three years was sentenced today in the UK. The bags included Mulberry, Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior and Burberry brands, and her prosecutor explained that "her usual method of theft was to go into the store without a bag, pick up one from the display, walk around with it on her shoulder for a while, then simply walk out of the store." [BBC]