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Police hope to ketchup with guy who stole extra fries from a Five Guys
By adamg on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:50pm
Frycam photo and label via Waltham PD.
Waltham Police report they are looking for a guy who, apparently not satisfied with the extra fries in his Five Guys bag, made off with a 50-lb. bag of pre-cut French fries on his way out of the restaurant at 1030 Main St.
We are hoping that we can "mash" all of the evidence together and come up with a suspect. Call Detective's at 781-314-3558 if you can identify this individual.
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Comments
He wanted his own private Ore-Idaho
I must say, that's quite Simplot to steal the spuds.
Since he stole them in Waltham, maybe he's on the Lamb in Weston?
Stop wasting my money looking
Stop wasting my money looking for a stolen bag of processed food. Not a priority.
Yep, them's small potatoes
Yep, them's small potatoes
Relax, I don’t think the
Relax, I don’t think the Waltham police have an APB and a dragnet out for the guy.
Seriously. I can’t believe
Seriously. I can’t believe the cops are investigating crime!!
Is this.. apeeling for them?
(Oh also, screw you. Quality of life)
He stole something that wasn
He stole something that wasn’t his
He took something that wasn't his
Stealing = taking something that wasn't his.
Therefore "stole" is redundant.
It's only $40 or so
So just peel off two twenties from your wallet, give them to the franchise owner, and the police can go about business that's a higher priority to you.
"my money" *snicker*
You tell 'em, anon Waltham resident whose money is being wasted! You post a comment on uhub! I'm sure the Waltham police are reading this right now for the express purpose of getting your feedback.
Why would you steal those?
You couldn't pay me to take those greasy things.
That's fine
More for the rest of us.
Fries
Restaurant fries are a total ripoff and even a 20oz bag of Ore Ida Crispers costs $3 on sale in the supermarket. I can see why he’d steal the fries.
You know that all food costs
You know that all food costs more in restaurants than it does in grocery stores, right? That's part of their business model.
Street value???
n/t
Zero
Unless he had a cooler handy, frying thawed, previously frozen french fries will result in fries that are limp, greasy, and disgusting. Blech.
Not quite
Those are bags of raw potatoes. They're probably worth like $5 wholesale.
I guess the guy just really wanted some skins in the game.
Shaking my head
The Hamburglar is sending his underlings to do the dirty work now?
We;ll keep our eyes peeled.
We;ll keep our eyes peeled.
when
he's caught no making fun of the cargo shorts. but it's open season on the 90's grunge goatee
Getting baked with Guerilla glue...
Segued into getting fried with Tangerine Dream?
you mean
gg#4. cant use that other name. trademarks and such. no hiding from the man.
Let the boy cook
Swag.
And to make the getaway...
...he spud out.
"They weren't throwing it out
"They weren't throwing it out? It was sitting by the trash can."
"Pre-cut"?
"Pre-cut"?
Shows how naive I am. I always assumed they were bags of spuds and the local staff did something transformative between the "bags piled in the dining room" and "measure a basket-full for the deep fryer" stages - despite the fact that I've never seen an employee lift one of those bags and (now that I think of it) I don't know if I've ever seen anyone there use a knife.
You're shattering my faith in institutional fables. Next thing - you'll be telling me that today's bag of spuds isn't really from Yastrzemski's Family Farm of Long Island, NY.
They do tell you where they came from
Farm and location!
I walked into the downtown one a couple of years back and saw a family name that I had not seen in decades - one of my grade school classmates in Oregon had grown the spuds that they were using that day! Of course I had to get some! Yay Pat!
Thanks for chiming in to tell
Thanks for chiming in to tell me that they tout their supplier's name and location, Swirly.
After all, other than the fact that I had just made reference to the practice, someone might think I had never heard of it.
You got it wrong, though
Five Guys NEVER use potatoes from Long Island.
Misreporting
Those are not bags of pre-cut french fries sitting there all day. Just think about it for a minute. If those were fifty pound sacks of frozen, pre-cut fries, sitting there all day long? They wouldn't be frozen anymore, they'd turn to mush, and the bags would be soaked.
Here's an explanation of how the fries are made:
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2016/03/29/how-the-five-guys-french-fries-g...
What Adam really meant...
What he really meant is that they're pre-cut french fries...as in "before they are cut" french fries...aka raw potatoes.
Yeahhhh, that's the ticket!
Vanilla Ice...
has sure fallen on hard times.
This has to be someone who was dared by a friend, right?
And/or just really high? This looks like a prank more than anything else.
From that day on ...
The Pine Street Gang called him Joey Bagospuds.
Bless your heart, sir...
That's the best laugh I've had in several days, or at least since I read the tale on Facebook of the woman whose husband misread the Ex-Lax instructions and ate the entire bar...he couldn't leave the bathroom long enough to call Poison Control himself, and she couldn't stop laughing long enough for several minutes to explain to the very patient hotline operator what had happened. As it turns out, consuming 12 doses of Ex-Lax at once won't actually kill you, but it's really not something anyone would recommend doing for obvious reasons...
(Speaking of which, does anyone besides me remember a site called Poison Pentium that dealt with the daily adventures of a state poison control hotline operator? It came down after his supervisors found it, even though there were no actual HIPAA violations, but it was possibly the funniest thing on the Web for a couple of years, mainly due to the author's editorializing on his various clients...)