Famished bandits who were thwarted attempting to steal 70lbs of doner meat during an after hours raid on kebab shop after one raider dropped the frozen ‘elephant’s leg’ on his foot have been compared to bungling crooks on “America’s Dumbest Criminals”.
The two feckless thieves were caught on CCTV as they tried to grab their late night takeaway from Kebab Mahal on Dalkeith High Street near Edinburgh around 1.45am on Friday morning.
Footage shows that the crooks ignored the shop’s expensive computer equipment – and a till full of cash – targeting the huge mass of meat instead.
One of the thieves managed to slip through a tiny window to get inside the shop before passing the meat to his friend outside.