What do you think he was going to do with it?

The most likely reason is that he hoped to sell them but other reasons might include getting a 'high' by inhaling the solvent or extracting the nitrocellulose in order to make an explosive device. I always find it incredible that people still try to steal from stores which almost always have security cameras installed.

I have no idea what someone would do with that much nail polish. I did read the comments section after the article and the few comments about flea markets sounds the most accurate.

Perhaps he was going to get really really really really high. That or open his very own drag queen school.

Wow that is a lot of nail polish! How in the world did no one notice him taking the time to steal 102 bottles of nail polish? That is crazy to need that much. I think you are right about reselling it. As sad as it is, people are getting desperate to support themselves. Costs keep going up for everything.

Where do you think much of the merchandise those flea markets or discount stores comes from? It is a huge business to lift items from pharmacies for resell... "huge" as in being part of a multi-million (or is it now billion?) business of organized crime. Something for "bargain" hunters to consider the next time they are buying their super cheap razors or deodorant...

Maybe he has a thing for nail polish, and he wants to bathe in them! I know that I like the smell of it, I just don't know how much I like 102 bottles in total! Almost $8 per bottle? Those are expensive nail polishes!

I was thinking he was going to sell it too. Or maybe he's an artist and he was stealing supplies? :D

Maybe he's giving his house a bit of a makeover and fancied something a little different to ordinary paint?

Wow! That is a lot of nail varnish! I think it anything, he was more than likely going to sell it and try and make the money on it all but, then I guess we will never know what his plans were!

No telling,, he sounds like one of the many looney tunes that's out here running around. People are just scary when u see the news & see what crazy things they do.

I think that he was probably going to sell it. Where we live people do stuff like that all the time...they call them "boosters". The company my husband works for they had people stealing Tide laundry detergent. The thieves would turn around and sell it for a much cheaper than any store...Tide is pretty expensive if you ask me. The sheriff's officers in our area said they had regular "customers" to sell to.

First thing that I thought of was .... Flea market! I often wonder how people get the items they sell there. Maybe this is one answer? LOL

I only reason I know possible is that he is going to sell it to make money. Now a weird thought just popped out of my mind....maybe his wife is into collecting nail polish that he wanted to please her but got not money to buy her even a bottle.

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probably sell it.they busted people here stealing things to sell at yard sales/flea markets..

Over here, we have glue sniffing addicts and when they cannot get the glue they will look for alternatives like nail polish or nail polish remover. I doubt he is an addict of this sort but I am open with this. The other thing I can think of is that he may have a psychological breakdown of a personal kind where he thought that by getting all 102 bottles of nail polish, he will be able to please or win back somebody's heart like maybe his wife who had suddenly left the house or departed suddenly. It sounds more like the latter than trying to sell it.

I guess you are right. He have done that because of shortage of budget in his salon if he have one business like that or it was just his inborn illness which is "kleptomaniac".