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Texas boot thief rustles $10,000 pair

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SAINT JO, Texas, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Police in a small Texas town are on the lookout for a shoplifter who helped himself to a pair of handmade cowboy boots valued at a cool $10,000.

Famed boot maker Carl Chappell reported the footwear missing from his shop in Saint Jo, apparently taken by a young customer while his apprentice was on the phone, The Dallas Morning News said Saturday.

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The boots feature ostrich hide and hand-tooled scenes of cattle drives and bronco busting, the newspaper said. They won a prize at the annual boot and saddle-maker trade show in Wichita Falls in 2003.

Chappell has posted a $1,000 reward for the return of the boots. The culprit’s name isn’t known, so he is referred to on the posters as a “piece of trash,” the Morning News said.

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