Shoe heist caught on camera tickles social media funny bone

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: A video showing a thief selecting and stealing shoes from an apartment building in Bengaluru has gone viral, attracting many reactions from netizens.

The footage, filmed in the Brookfield area, shows a man calmly walking through the building with a sack. Wearing a black hoodie, the thief spends time looking at a rack of shoes outside an apartment.

He chooses some pairs and puts one pair back that he does not want. The thief places the selected shoes into his sack and leaves the building. The video, posted on Instagram last week, has received over 62,000 likes. The thief ’s face is not visible in the footage, which has intrigued viewers.

The post notes that this is the second such theft reported in the C-Block, AECS Layout here in the past six months. The video has led to humorous comments online.

One user remarked that the thief did not want to steal their shoes, while another user shared that shoes were stolen from every floor of their building except for theirs, feeling slightly offended.

The video highlights the thief's unique method and draws attention to ongoing petty theft issues in residential areas. Local authorities have taken the incident seriously, which social media users are playing down.