Moment green-fingered thief steals three PLANT POTS from outside family home before driving off in car with false number plates
- Man in tracksuit pulls up in Ford Focus and steals plants pots from driveway
- He lugs the pots into the boot of his car in Birmingham before driving away
- Police launched appeal on social media and said car’s number plates were false
A green-fingered thief was caught on CCTV pulling up into someone’s driveway and stealing three plant pots from their front garden.
Security footage released by West Midlands Police shows the man reversing up to the family home on Park Hill Road, Harborne, Birmingham, at around 9pm on Sunday, July 26.
He is seen quickly getting out of his silver Ford Focus and rushing around to pick up the decorative plant pots.
A tracksuit-clad man was seen stealing plant pots from a house in Harborne, Birmingham, on Sunday July 26
CCTV footage shows him picking up each pot individually and lugging it into the boot of his car
The thief lugs them one by one from the gravel beside the driveway into the boot of his car with the plants still inside.
After dropping the third pot into his car, the shameless crook then shuts the boot and drives away in the vehicle, which police said they believe is running on false plates.
West Midlands Police are investigating the unusual theft and have urged anyone who recognises the tracksuit-clad suspect to get in touch.
Posting the appeal on social media, the force wrote: ‘Do you recognise this man?’
He brazenly reverses into the driveway, picks up the three decorative pots in the homeowners front garden, and closes the boot
He gets back in his car, which police say has false number plates, and drives off with the plants in his boot
Web users reacted with dismay to the strange crime after police shared the CCTV footage on Facebook.
Lesley Bruckshaw said: ‘What a sad person, pinching plants can you get any lower, or desperate.’
Chris Berry wrote: ‘Bad times we live in when you can’t even have plant pots without someone stealing them.’
Claire Maling-Newman added: ‘Can’t have any thing nice these days, pond life’
Gary Peters joked: ‘Looks like a job for special branch.’
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police via live chat on their website or by calling 101, quoting crime reference number 20BW/175837D/20.