"Age Is No Excuse"...Why the Elderly Person on CCTV Shocked Viewers

Elderly Person Caught on CCTV Stealing Eggs with a Stroller

Shop Owner Laments, "The Delivery Driver and I Suspected Each Other"

A self-employed store owner, who had been troubled by the mysterious disappearance of one tray of eggs every morning after delivery, finally discovered an unexpected culprit by checking the CCTV footage. The person seen taking the eggs placed in front of the store was an elderly passerby from the neighborhood.

Mr. A, who identified himself as a self-employed person, released CCTV footage on September 11 showing an elderly person taking eggs placed in front of the store during the early morning hours. The video was posted on social media and online communities.

According to Mr. A, the footage was shot at around 4:18 a.m. on September 9. Mr. A claimed, "The grandmother stealing the eggs is so brazen," and added, "It turns out that all the eggs that kept disappearing one tray at a time were her doing."

CCTV footage released on the 11th by Mr. A, who identified himself as a self-employed person. Screenshot from an online community

The video shows an elderly person wearing a green top lingering near the store before approaching the storefront. She picks up a tray of eggs that had been delivered and puts it into a stroller she brought with her, then quickly leaves the scene. Mr. A believes the eggs have repeatedly disappeared in this same manner.

Mr. A explained, "With the eggs disappearing repeatedly, I thought there was some problem with the delivery process." While the delivery driver, who delivered the eggs around 2 a.m., insisted that all quantities were delivered accurately each time, Mr. A believed that the order was always short by one tray when it arrived.

In the end, both sides ended up suspecting each other, but Mr. A learned the real reason for the missing eggs after checking the CCTV footage. "The delivery driver said he delivered the exact amount, and I noticed one tray was always missing, so we doubted each other and the situation got tense," Mr. A said, adding that only after checking the CCTV did he realize there was no fault with the delivery driver.

Online users who saw the footage pointed out not only the elderly person's actions but also the unnecessary suspicion and conflict that arose between the delivery driver and the store owner because of it. One commenter said, "Age shouldn’t be a free pass," and criticized the incident as "behavior that led to unnecessary misunderstandings among innocent people."

However, the footage only confirms the act of theft at a specific time; whether the same individual is responsible for all previous missing eggs remains to be separately verified.

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