This is the moment that a dear thief got stuck by stealing the ceiling of a supermarket in an attempt to steal scratchcards.
Employees of a Sainsbury's Local in Nottingham ranged frantically 999 after they saw a few legs dangling yesterday morning from a hole in the ceiling of the store.
The infringement of the impossible style mission was recorded in shocking CCTV images shared by the Nottinghamshire police.
The man can see his way through the ceiling of the store on Waverley Street, Radford, in a cloud of plaster and fabric.
But while he sinks to the waist, he gets stuck and starts kicking his legs in a panic attempt to stabilize himself.
Groceries were sent that fly from a shelf nearby with the Raider who had been left Comic for a few seconds.
Eventually he managed to free himself and reportedly would steal around £ 200 on National Lottery Bows.
The man also placed chips, detergents and food products in a bag of waste before they flee the store through a fire exit, the police said.
This is the moment that a dear thief got stuck through the ceiling of a supermarket in an attempt to steal scratches
The man finally managed to free himself and is said to have stolen about £ 200 in scratchcards
The man also placed chips, detergents and food products in a bag before fled the store through a fire exit, the police said
Response officers arrived within six minutes of the 999 call and found a man who corresponded to the description of the intruder in the nearby Forest Road.
A 50-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken in custody.
Inspector Liz Gaskin, from the City Central Neighborhood Policing team, said: 'This was fantastic work by the response officials who made sure that a suspect was quickly in handcuffs.
'The store was closed at the time of the incident and therefore had no influence on members of the public.
'However, it was an alarming incident for the staff and I would like to thank them for warning the burglary.
'Nobody has to arrive for a service to discover a burglar in their workplace and I hope they are reassured by the arrest.
“As is shown today, we will always offer a robust response when community shops are focused on this and plundered their shelves.”
It comes when MailOnline reported last month that shoplifting has risen in a record high.
A total of 492,914 offenses were registered by the police in the year until September, the Office of National Statistics found – the highest figure since the current police registration practices started for the year ending on March 2003.
MailOnline recently obtained CCTV images from shop owners in Surrey who reveals that brutal thieves casually steal hundreds of pounds before they flee with full bags.
Lindsey Kleinlercher, joint owner of gift shop between the lines, said that shoplifting is now 'flagrant' about the 18 locations of the store in the south of England – while she was due to the lack of support from the police.
The police registered 1.8 million theft in the year to September, an increase of two percent powered by shoplifting and an increase of 22 percent in crimes with theft of a person (146,109). MES -violations and robberies each rose by four percent.
It is amid warnings that shoplifting 'gets out of hand' after a study by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) suggested that there were more than 2,000 incidents per day, where staff were confronted with attack, threatened with weapons and racial and sexual abuse.
The alarming new figures show that shoplifting is getting worse, despite the fact that companies pay a record of £ 1.8 billion for prevention tactics such as CCTV, more guards and body -worn cameras.
About 61 percent of retailers say that the police response to calls for help 'poor' or 'very poor' has been.
Retailers report unprecedented levels of violence against their staff, with the number of incidents with a weapon that more than doubles to 70 a day.
