Apparently, a meal could taste so good that it might just turn you into a criminal. That’s the only logical explanation for the hilarious sight of a customer pocketing a shaker in a Chicago, Illinois, pizzeria. A video posted on X, formerly Twitter, showed an unidentified customer thoroughly enjoying his pizza while he committed a petty crime.
Surveillance footage from a Chicago pizzeria shows a customer casually enjoying a slice of pizza before discreetly slipping a parmesan cheese shaker into their pocketpic.twitter.com/unsxXZmtsQ
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After taking a sip from his drink, the man picked up the Parmesan cheese shaker on the table and sprinkled some on his pizza. He then looked on each side as though checking for any witnesses before he discreetly slipped the shaker into his pocket and continued his meal as if nothing had happened. The caption accompanying the video noted that it was obtained from the surveillance footage. The clip was playing on a TV screen as someone recorded it. The person behind the camera asked if anyone could recognize the guy. “Gotcha! [expletive],” they said, zooming in on the culprit’s face.
“I feel like we could have let this one slide without dragging this dude across the entire Internet, personally,” an X user said in the comment section, while another quipped, “I don’t see a thief. I see a man who tasted greatness and refused to go back to mediocrity. That shaker wasn’t stolen — it was rescued.”…