- A silver-coloured Subaru reversed through the front doors early Friday morning
- Three men entered the store, grabbed two bottles of soft drink and fled the shop
- Officers from Mid North Coast Local Area Command established a crime scene
It seems like a lot of effort to go to just to steal two bottles of soft drink.
Police are hunting for a pack of thieves after a brazen pre-dawn ram-raid on a NSW mid-north coast shop.
A silver Subaru smashed through the front of a shop at Kempsey on the NSW mid-north coast just before dawn on Friday.
Police are hunting for a pack of thieves who ram-raided a Kempsey store early Friday morning and stole two bottles of fizzy drink
Three men entered the store, grabbed two bottles of soft drink and fled in the vehicle, police said.
‘Bloody idiots must have been off their faces from something else just to take two bottles of soft drink,’ one local wrote on Facebook.
‘Must have been thirsty,’ another person wrote.
Someone else added: ‘Why would you steal soft drink when you have access to servo pies???.’
A silver Subaru smashed through the front of the shop on Forth Street in Kempsey, on the NSW mid-north coast, just before dawn
The targeted store was a tobacconist shop near the town’s Woolworths supermarket, according to locals who claimed to see the aftermath.
CCTV images show the rear of the car smashed through the front of the shop, rear-end first, leaving broken glass and scattered debris.
Officers from Mid North Coast Local Area Command attended and established a crime scene.
Police have urged anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page.
Three men entered the store, grabbed two bottles of soft drink and fled in the vehicle, police said