Posted on 01/05/2017 8:34:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Video shows one rodent waiting for coast to be all clear before pouncing on candy and scurrying away.
A group of squirrels is driving the owners of one Toronto convenience store nuts, after the rodents have been caught on video stealing chocolate bars from their east-end shop.
“I always see them sneaking outside the door, looking in my store, and even right at me!” said Paul Kim, owner of Luke’s Grocery near Gerrard St. E. and Logan Ave.
“They come in and take Crunchies, Crispy Crunch, Wonderbar . . . ”
And those who are really bold “try to take Mr. Big.”
He’s seen pesky thieves slink in every fall for the past nine years — since he’s owned the store — but 2016 showed a spike in the rodent robberies with one to two bandits visiting the Kim family daily.
“I think we’ve lost up to . . . 48-ish bars this fall season,” Kim’s daughter Cindy said. “That’s an extremely rough estimate, though, because we have no way of knowing when we’ve been robbed — they’re very sneaky.”
A Youtube video shows a squirrel caught red-handed stealing a chocolate bar from a east-end Toronto convenience store. A Youtube video shows a squirrel caught red-handed stealing a chocolate bar from a east-end Toronto convenience store. (YOUTUBE) With a sharp increase in chocolate robberies, Cindy set up a Reddit thread called “how to stop squirrels from stealing chocolate bars,” in hopes that the Internet could provide answers to stop the nutty activity.
She also used surveillance video from the store to catch the robbers in the act, which she later posted to Youtube.
“My wife and I don’t know how to upload these videos — but Cindy thought it would be funny to share online,” Paul Kim said.
Videos show the furry bandits — a light grey-brown one and a black one — inching tentatively into the store, grabbing a Kinder Bueno ($2) on one occasion, and a Crunchie bar ($1.80) the next time.
“We find them very, very cute . . . however, these squirrels have stolen considerably from us this fall . . . so . . . we’d like that to stop,” Cindy said.
The family has tried closing the door to prevent the thefts, but say that there are occasions while cleaning or re-stocking that the door needs to be left open for half an hour to an hour.
“(It’s) then, when the door is open and we’re not around for a moment, they sneak in. They’ve yet to fail,” Cindy said.
Customers and passersby have also tried chasing down the bandit, but when it resorts to climbing up a tree, “it’s game over,” she said.
“A way exists to get rid of the squirrels...”
Ground up glass in peanut butter. It’s the classic solution for groundhogs.
The worst would be if he bit you... with your own teeth!
I guess he was there to make one of those embarrassing purchases.
I remember the seagull from years ago. He stole a bag every day and customers chipped in to cover the cost.
No it’s St. Anthony.
OK...maybe I was thinking of *lost causes*
**St. Jude was one of the Twelve Apostles, and in the Catholic Church he is the patron Saint of lost causes. - See more at: http://www.prayers-for-special-help.com/st-jude-prayer.html#sthash.piLKxeEo.dpuf**
Smile - I know St. Jude. St. Jude is a friend of mine. And St. Anthony has helped many times.
Amen to that. :)
Yes!
I think the same thing may have happened to my G Shock watch a few years ago. I was working on my Jeep and had to remove it to get my hand in a tight spot. I know exactly where I put it. Next day it was gone. It was a very hot day and I’m guessing the salty sweat had some appeal to a critter.
In the past week I've sealed some cracks in the (bed)room so to keep them out. However, I think I may have inadvertently trapped one or more inside! And now they're going nuts with hunger. Because they don't seem to care much anymore if I'm there or not when they climb and jump around on stuff. As I mentioned earlier, the day before it happened, one actually hopped up on the bed, paused a second and looked me in the eye.
Look for the ones zooming around with a sugar buzz.......
When I first read this line, for some odd reason, I read it as "G-String". Lol!
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