UWM-General Stupidity

A 20-year-old student was arrested Sept. 19 on charges of theft of textbooks from the union bookstore. He was arrested after he was seen on video taking the books and identified at Panther Book Store where he went to sell them. He got $15 for the books and was arrested. He reportedly admitted the theft, saying he needed money to buy books for his classes.

So why didn't he just steal the books for his own class?