Another ham-fisted pork theft as swine fever pushes up prices in China
- Case in Foshan, Guangdong province, the latest in an outbreak of reports about people stealing the staple meat
According to surveillance camera footage posted online, the shopper, a woman surnamed Ma, put two plastic shopping bags into her bike’s front basket before walking away in Foshan, Guangdong province.
A man standing nearby with his bike watched her and took a bag of pork – valued at about 100 yuan (US$14) – out of her bike basket after she left, video site Btime.com reported on Tuesday.
“The woman went into a shopping centre for a very short time, and when she returned quickly realised that the pork had disappeared,” police officer Jiang Juqi was quoted as saying.
“At first, while watching the camera footage, we thought the man was just playing a prank. But then we realised that after he actually took away the pork, he went into a nearby side alley and stuffed the pork into his shoulder bag.
“He returned to his bike and rode off.”