AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A real-life Hamburglar has struck at a Maine McDonald’s.
Police say a young man, seemingly inspired by the pattie purloining character once featured in McDonald’s advertising campaigns, ran between a car and the takeout window at the Augusta restaurant Sunday night as an employee handed a bag of food to a driver.
A witness flagged down an officer leaving a nearby convenience store.
Lt. Christopher Massey, acting on a description of the hungry thief, found him in the parking lot of a rival fast food restaurant diving into a McDonald’s bag.
Massey tells the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/GQzgak) the suspect swore and ran into the woods. He was never caught.
Massey says the three young men who had their food stolen didn’t know the burger thief.