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A shoplifter who stole 798 Cadbury's Creme Eggs has been jailed for eight months.

Portsmouth Magistrates' Court heard on Friday that Layton Richards, 29, from Brownlow Close in Portsmouth, had been charged with 24 shoplifting offences.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said he had stolen the chocolate between 6 January and 18 April.

Richards targeted 19 shops across Hampshire, Dorset and West Sussex, and took £3,463.96 worth of produce and products.

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s even worse than stealing forty cakes. It’s more than four tens. And it’s terrible.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just don't ask where he hid them.

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds like an easy world record to beat.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago
[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Challenge accepted

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I can boof fifty eggs!

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Must be, there's an X-ray and everything so it can't be totally made up by the Sunday Sport.

Although there is also sad news:

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Crocs can smell crème eggs from up to Fifty miles away, sadly.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you suggesting about the fine journalism of the Sunday Sport? That's Britain's last bastion of integrity I'll have you know!

Somebody's internals are gritty alright

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

798 Cadbury's Creme Eggs

£3,463.96 worth of produce

£4.34 for a Creme Egg? Or he stole 798 Creme Eggs as well as several thousand other non-headline-worthy products?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

I'd be surprised if all he was stealing were Creme Eggs.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That’s a lot of shrinkflationn since last I was in a Tesco, but I can buy it.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But can you really blame him?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

They have saved dozens of people from getting diabetes.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are disgusting. I liked them as a kid, but had one recently and it was a mistake

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm almost certain the recipe has gotten worse

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They're def noticably smaller than they used to be

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

FOOD HEIST!

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Let him cook