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(KMOV) - An unusual crime in Jefferson County has many laughing including both police and the victim.

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Vicky Gaines

Fish's Quick Stop is a place where people in DeSoto, Missouri can get just about anything.

Store Clerk Vicky Gaines got more than she ever bargained for.

"Basically, a guy coming in, standing there naked and doing the hula," Gaines says.

It was all caught by the store's video camera at 5:30 a.m. August 18th.

As bizarre as it sounds, police say the naked man was part of a team that was out to steal beer.

The thieves plan, according to police was for the naked man to distract the store's clerk while another young man went to the back and took a case of beer.

As it turned out the clerk wasn't distracted.

"He was just standing there and saying, asking if you'd like some of this, and I told the cops, I have a naked man in my doorway with a mask on can you come up here," Gaines says.

The whole episode ended in a matter of seconds.

The naked man fleeing to a car along with the second man with beer in hand, and a customer running out to get the license plate number of the car.

A few days later they were caught, leaving Gaines with a vivid and humorous story to tell.

"They want to know if I got anxious over it or got a thrill out of it and all of that, but it didn't bother me a bit and I'm not thrilled about anything anymore," Gaines says.

Police say they did catch three men, two of them 19 and one 23.

They face charges of shoplifting, minor in possession of alcohol and indecent exposure.