Buying Some Unwanted Publicity

Source: Backstreet.net and Atlanta Journal Constitution

May 27, 2000

By: Richard L. Eldredge

Is Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell a shoplifter? No, but he was momentarily mistaken for one last week after he popped into the Sandy Plains Road Kmart in Marietta with his fianc'ee Leighanne Wallace.

Littrell and Wallace spent a few minutes browsing in the jewelry department and buying items for a pool party Saturday. Then word got out that he was in the store. Witnesses report that Wallace seemed none too thrilled encountering yet another gaggle of girls making a fuss over her soon-to-be hubby.

Worse still, while the couple was attempting to leave with their purchases, a theif decided to use the commotion as an oppertunity to heist a TV set. Security alarms went off. Employees successfully apprehended the TV theif, but Littrell also was briefly detained. It seems that the casheir ringing up the Backstreet Boy was a touch distracted and forgot to deactivate one of the security tags.

Once the mistake was cleared up, Littrell and Wallace went on their way. The teenage cashier, meanwhile, is planning to keep the pen Littrell wrote with.

Kmart managers grudgingly confirmed the Backstreet Boy sighting Thursday for Buzz but stressed that "he was in here only as a customer." And we thought he was working in housewares...