Meanwhile in Tennessee . . .

Police officers were responding to a call at a Walmart store in Nashville when they witnessed a totally unrelated crime.

They caught John Honaker using his five finger discount to swipe some supplies for a barbecue, including brisket and propane.

Personally, we’d rather not have an invite to this dude’s cookout because part of his method of theft was to shove the brisket and two bottles of propane down his pants!

Officers saw the whole thing going down in-real-time on the store security cameras, so they grabbed John to place him under arrest . . . John starts trying to kick the officers away from him . . . and now he’s looking at charges on assaulting an officer in addition to his theft charges.