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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bacon thief leaves rasher on door knob - Surrey police hunt ham burglar

Posted: 9/9/2010 8:52:50 PM EDT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/bacon_theft/

Surrey police hunt ham burglar

By Joe Fay • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 9th September 2010 13:51 GMT

Surrey police are hunting a burglar who broke into a house in
Redhill, Surrey and swiped a packet of bacon - except for a single
rasher left chillingly draped over the front door handle.

As well as clearing the family's fridge of their salty pork belly
breakfast meat, in the early hours of September 4, the thief also swiped
a phone from the hallway. The phone was later recovered, police said.
Not so the bacon.

Police said the mystery breakfast raider did not cause any damage,
though presumably the door handle needed a good wipe after he decorated
it with the mysterious solitary rasher.

Surrey Police have issued a CCTV image
of a man they would like to speak to. He is described as white with
short dark hair and a moustache. He was wearing dark trousers and a dark
t-shirt with a white motif on the shoulder.

Detective Constable Julian Knowles said: "The victims are at a loss
to understand why someone would break-in to their house and steal a
packet of bacon and we are equally stumped as to who this potentially
peckish suspect is."

In June, a 29-year-old in Dudley was convicted of stealing £100 worth
of bacon from a butchers store room. In March, a 31-year-old homeless
man was convicted of stealing £38 of bacon in Reading. Apparently the
perp had hoped to fence the bacon for drug money. In 1988, a portrait of
Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud was stolen from a British Council
exhibition in Berlin. ®

Bootnote

A big splash of ketchup to Michael Gibson for bringing this porcine purloinery to our attention.

Posted: 9/9/2010 9:03:34 PM EDT

[#1]

And I thought I loved bacon.

Posted: 9/9/2010 9:05:23 PM EDT

[#2]

Ask Mayor McCheese, he'll know where he is.

Posted: 9/9/2010 9:51:10 PM EDT

[#3]

Police said the mystery breakfast raider did not cause any damage, though presumably the door handle needed a good wipe after he decorated it with the mysterious solitary rasher.

Story would have been MUCH more entertaining if the definition of a "rasher" was "dog poop", rather than "a strip of bacon"...

Posted: 9/9/2010 9:57:40 PM EDT

[#4]

When thefts like this make it into the papers in the UK, there is usually some sort of beastiality associated with it.

Posted: 9/9/2010 10:00:47 PM EDT

[#5]

Apparently the
perp had hoped to fence the bacon for drug money

Posted: 9/10/2010 2:36:21 AM EDT

[#6]

What the fuck is a rasher???

Posted: 9/10/2010 2:41:39 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

What the fuck is a rasher???

A slice.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:15:55 AM EDT

[#8]

Price of bacon has doubled over the last year

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/24/news/bacon_prices/index.htm

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:33:22 AM EDT

[#9]

When they outlaw bacon, only outlaws will have bacon.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:37:39 AM EDT

[#10]

"ham burglar" sounds like some sort of obscene slang when it's written out in two words. For some reason, "hamburglar" is fine though.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:42:08 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Price of bacon has doubled over the last year

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/24/news/bacon_prices/index.htm

The sty's the limit!

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:47:22 AM EDT

[#12]

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