JAMESWAY, WI — He’s a would-be shoplifter who will surely be the butt of many jokes. Especially given how quickly the store was able to crack the case.

Voigt Music Center in Jamesway says that last month one of their employees saw a man walk in, wander around, and then place one of their flutes down his pants. He put it behind him, not in front.

The employee approached him.

He told her that he always keeps his flutes in his pants. She removed the flute and noticed the store’s price tag still on the flute.

The man fled and the flute was safe.

The store posted video of the man walking around the store with the flute clearly visible sticking up from his pants.

“We find it asinine that someone would try to steal a flute from us so blatantly,” the store wrote on Facebook.

“Butt we have to ask the question, ‘what do we do with this tainted flute?'”

They turned it into a lamp that’s now displayed in their front window.

“Eat your heart out Old Man Parker,” they wrote in reference to a character from “A Christmas Story.”

“This beats your leg lamp any day!”

Voigt Music writes that the man, who drove away with a woman in a “late model brown Blazer-like truck,” is still at large.

They do, however, have a message for him:

“Yu aren’t welcome back, ever.”