Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put 'mystery meat' in locked cases
Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and head for the door. She thought "'OK, this isn't real. No, he's not going to take it, no, no," she told KHON TV.
But it was real. The man took off with the Spam and disappeared.
Elsewhere on the Island at about the same time, three women loaded up shopping carts at a Long's drugstore with 18 cases of - you guessed it - Spam. They made a rush for the exit. Fortunately, an alert customer, Kurt Fevella, saw the attempted heist in progress, stationed himself at the door on Spam patrol and stopped them in their tracks. They shoved the carts toward at him and took off, Fevella told KITV4.
A shop at a downtown mall wasn't so lucky. The Honolulu Police Department is now offering a $1000 reward for a man (and an apparent accomplice) who entered a store on Oct. 3, grabbed a case of Spam and punched a security guard who attempted to stop him.
Police reported that the thief "fled in an unknown direction."
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