CRIME STOPPER: The Last Place shop assistant Kristie Asplin, 34, chased a shoplifter along Hurstmere Rd before retrieving the stolen items.

Passers-by watched in astonishment as an alleged shoplifter's pants fell down while she was being chased by a shop assistant, revealing that she had gone ‘commando'.

Kristie Asplin, 34, of The Last Place in Takapuna managed to catch the woman after a 100 metre dash along Hurstmere Rd.

The alleged shoplifter had visited the store a number of times before the incident around 1pm on Friday, May 17, Ms Asplin says.

"She kept telling me that she had stuff on hold so that I would go out the back of the store. I am the only one here."

As Ms Asplin reluctantly walked towards the back of the shop, she says theDenmark announced The World Championship 2016 squad



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Team captain Casper "cadiaN" Møller has announced Denmark's 15-man squad for TWC 2016.

Last year, Jacob "pimp" Winneche who was the captain then was unable to assemble a squad for the offline stage of the international tournament, therefore Denmark had to withdraw during the online playoffs. Denmark's issues with assembling the squad continued this year as the national team doesn't feature a single player from the country's best team, Astralis. The other missing names on the list are Philip "aizy" Aistrup and two players that play for US-based teams, Winneche and Asger "AcilioN" Larsen.

The qualification path for the finals have not been announced yet by the organizers, E-frag.net, so it's unclear in which stage of the qualifying progress Denmark