Elite shoplifter stole 798 Cadbury's Creme Eggs

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/08/02/elite-shoplifter-stole-798-cadburys-creme-eggs.html

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[RickMycroft]

Nobody can eat 798 Cadbury eggs!

[McGreens]

Six months for shoplifting!?

Also, how did 798 Creme Eggs cost £3,463.96?

[copper]

I think there must have been other items stolen – it says “produce and products”. That got me, too. I busted out a calculator to try to figure out how much each egg cost and got over £4 each and realized no way could that possibly be right if it was just the eggs.

[MagicFox]

Oh yeah?

[Bonivus_elderheart]

You don’t need those toes, right?

[McGreens]

That’s what I thought but the article doesn’t really make that clear. Then again, BBC headlines are not known for being very accurate these days.

[SmilingDemon]

[blackanvil]

It’s like cops and how much drugs they confiscated on a raid: they claim a haul of pot is valued at at millions of dollars, which miraculously turns into a small baggie of oregano by the time of the trial.

[tcg550]

This is from a different article. It was also over the course of a couple months.

He stole a total of £3,463.96 worth of produce and products (around €4,100), including 798 of the popular Easter treat, Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court heard.

[MagicFox]

I’ve got ten, so plenty of spares!

[FGD135]

This little piggy went to the market to buy cream eggs… [snip]
… and this little piggy went to the market to buy cream eggs… [snip]
— Operating surgeon

[MagicFox]

This little piggy went to the market (snip)
This little piggy shoulda stayed home (snip)
This little piggy had cream eggs (snip)
This little piggy did too (snip)
This little piggy said “oh god, oh why god did you eat all those eeeeeeeeg….” (Snip)

[boonspender]

Wait till you hear about how he got them out of the shop!

[MagicFox]

Where’s that puke emoji?!

[anon77190095]

Yeah, they’d just melt…

[anothernewbbaccount]

@blackanvil

which miraculously turns into a small baggie of oregano by the time of the trial.

But this does not necessarily mean it was not an amount worth millions of dollars at the point of confiscation.

Just sayin’.

In the retail trade they call it ‘shrinkage’, I believe.

[FGD135]

[blondie]

Maybe he was just feeding his eel.