Clearly, he hadn't bargained on the fact that "paying forward" for the stunt would entail losing his wife, his cat, his last remaining money, and any hope of shopping at the mall again for 12 months after Bloomington police ordered him not to return to the scene for a year.
It soon became a private mall, but the architecture endures, a lost vision of public modernism.
Supermarkets Carrefour Cité Europe (9am-10pm weekdays, 9am-8pm Sundays) The mother of all supermarkets is in the Cité Europe shopping mall near the Eurotunnel, which also contains scores of shops from Go Sport to Toys R Us.
In a mall, such thinking counts as disruptive activity.
Barack Obama offered security support to Kenya on Monday, as authorities in Washington investigated reports that American citizens may have been involved in the terrorist attack on a shopping mall that killed at least 62 people.
The Westgate mall, 10 minutes from the city centre in the Westlands district, has long been talked about as a potential terror target.
I turned 18 a few months before Britain's first shopping mall opened, on a motorway interchange on the way to Hendon.
Definitely not pointy ankle boots, unless Britney Spears' mall date look is your vibe.
Sitting at the food court inside Columbiana Center, a shopping mall about 10 minutes from where Clinton held her events on Wednesday, the father of two said it was too early for him to decide how he would vote next year.
It also contains tabs for other al-Shabaab victims, including the ones on Mandera Quarry in 2014 and the Westgate shopping mall in 2013.
But ICC trials of president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto may become another victim of the last month's al-Shabaab killing spree in Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall.
