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20th May 2015

Pic: Factory worker fills fridge with 1,000 eggs he had stolen for his own consumption

The police eventually cracked it

Conor Heneghan

He’s a bad egg, this lad.

A security guard in China was caught rotten stealing vast quantities of eggs from a factory in which he worked and used to fuel his clearly protein-heavy diet.

A man known only as Mr. Gu, 47, was caught by police smuggling two suitcases of stolen goods from a factory in Pinghu City in China, which in turn led to police discovering a huge haul of stolen goods in his apartment.

That huge haul included a fridge stocked with 1,000 eggs.

That’s right, 1,000 eggs. Dozen’t it make you hungry?

Pic shows: Police found over 1,000 eggs inside the fridge of a security guard who admitted stealing from his workplace for over a year.nnA factory security guard who admitted stealing from his workplace for over a year told cops he liked eggs after they found his fridge packed with thousands of them which he had pilfered.nnThe 47-year-old bachelor who has been identified by his surname Gu, was spotted by police trying to smuggle two suitcases out of the factory on the back of his motorbike in Pinghu City in east China¿s Zhejiang Province.nnWhen they questioned him he admitted trying to steal them and when officers searched his home they found over 1,000 eggs inside his fridge.nnAnd each one had been dated so he knew when to eat them.nnPolice also found three drawers of meat from the factory as well as hundreds of bars of soap, boxes of tissues and bottles of detergent and other cleaning products.nnThe security guard who earns the equivalent of just 200 GBP a month told police he had taken the goods because his "trusted position" at the factory meant he was above suspicion and that he liked eggs.nnA police spokesman said he had been stealing the goods for 14 months.nnOne stunned worker at the factory said: "I can¿t believe it.nn"For months the bosses have been accusing us of taking the stuff and it turns out it was the security guard.nn"I hope they will now apologise for thinking it was us."nnA spokesman for the factory said: "We are as surprised as everyone else that it was the security guard.nn"We thought he was a hard working and dutiful guard who enjoyed woking nightshifts because he didn¿t have a family to go home to.nn"Now we found he did it so he could roam around and take pinch without anyone seeing him."nnThe man is now facing three years jail.nn(ends)n

Pic via CEN

Gu also stole meat, soap, detergent and tissues and did so while working the night shift when the chances of detection were massively decreased.

Commenting on Gu’s crimes, his employers said: “We thought he was a hardworking and dutiful guard who enjoyed working nightshifts because he didn’t have a family to go home to.

“Now we have found out that he did it so he could roam around and steal without anyone seeing him.”

Police found that Gu had even marked dates on the eggs in his fridge to remind him when they should be eaten and in fairness to him, he wasn’t exactly trying to hide his guilt afterwards.

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“I lost count how many times I have stolen,” he said.

“Probably hundreds of times. I have stolen everything in my house.”

He’s some yolk.

Hat-tip to helloU

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