Police Cast a Dragnet for 10,000 Stolen Doughnuts

Reader, please select your own corny first line for this article:

2. It’s a crime you just can’t sugar coat.

3. I’ve heard of stealing some dough, but this is ridiculous.

The tale began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday in Carlingford, Australia, near Sydney, when a delivery driver working the night shift stopped his van to make a quick stop at a 7-Eleven.

Closed circuit footage of the scene shows a woman milling around the gas pumps at the attached service station — or “servo” to Australians — and then climbing into the unattended van and driving away.

What makes the story more compelling than a typical opportunistic vehicle theft is the van’s contents: 10,000 Krispy Kreme doughnuts. The treats were bound for shops in Newcastle, but instead have now disappeared to parts unknown.