THIRTEEN seconds. That’s all it took for a woman to steal a flast screen TV from an appliance store. What’s more the theft was caught on CCTV footage. Watch it below.

The incident occurred in Costa Rica and police are looking for the woman and her accomplice.

A similar incident occurred in Lusaka, Zambia last year which was also caught on tape. The woman managed to sneak a Samsung flatscreen TV under her skirt in similar circumstances.

There has also been some brazen robberies in North Durban. Two years ago, a local man used his 14-year-old niece to steal R20 000 from a Gateway tobacco store.