Potty plot to steal a cooking pot
September 27, 2012 - 1:14am
By: Joyce Lim
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It was an unusually big cooking pot, with a diameter of about 1m.
Yet Mano Eswara Ponnampalam was bold enough to carry it out of a restaurant through its back door.
The theft, which happened on June 12 this year, was captured by the restaurant's closed-circuit television camera.
Yesterday Mano was fined $700 for stealing the pot. He had earlier made a restitution of $300 to the restaurant.
Read the full story in The New Paper on Thursday (Sept 27).