Two men were recently caught in some fishy business at a local seafood restaurant. Their crime? Pinching some crabs.
The men were arrested on Monday (Sept 21) evening after a bungled attempt to steal 11 Sri Lankan crabs worth about $1,000 from House of Seafood, police confirmed.
One of them, aged 59, was arrested for theft, while the other, 64, was arrested for receiving stolen property.
An employee of the restaurant told Lianhe Wanbao that an eagle-eyed customer had alerted her to the theft.
The customer had spotted one of the men crouching behind a claw machine in the restaurant, reaching into its attached glass tank and stashing the loot in his bag, she said.
“At the time, I was doubtful. But when I turned to have a look, I saw that all the crabs in the tank were gone,” she recalled, adding that the tank would typically be filled with about 10 crabs, each weighing about 1kg.
