Things didn?t go according to plan for the man who snatched a pair of boots Saturday from a store at Walt Whitman Mall. Foot Locker manager Leonard Owens says he witnessed 26-year-old Christian Vitale snatch a pair of construction boots. Owens says a store employee also witnessed the theft and the two men started chasing Vitale through the mall. Police say Vitale ran across the parking lot, scaled a fence topped with barbed wire and attempted to swim to safety through a drainage sump. When Vitale emerged from the edge of the sump, police were waiting to arrest him. Vitale was charged with petty larceny.