Criminals made off with quite a haul after taking more than 600 cans of soup, 300 lbs of pasta, and a vat of vegetable stew from Pellington Food Bank (PFB) in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Criminal investigators say the bank itself has questions to answer after CCTV footage showed the culprits walking through an unlocked door in the rear of the building and loading the haul directly onto the back of a truck.
Detective Carl Shumocker found the lack of security disturbing, saying “you would expect a bank to have some security measures in place. They didn’t lock their doors and they paid the price”. Wisconsin state law requires banks and other financial institutions to have an alarm system installed, in order to reduce liability. PFB had no such measure in place. The edible nature of the bank’s inventory makes protecting it that much more important.
The digestibility adds to the time sensitive nature of the investigation, with the criminals needing to be apprehended before it can be consumed. The only lead the police have right now is one particularly large homeless man on Kenosha’s south side. Big Billy has been known to frequent PFB but was banned last week after drinking too much soup broth. Police have informed the public to be on the lookout for an enormous man covered in soup, sleeping on a bed of pasta.