Members of the Hastings community have taken to Facebook to help catch burglars who stole $2500 worth of meat from the Bald Butcher in Hastings.
Commenters have been encouraging owners Marion and Darren McCarthy to upload video stills of the trio who pried open the front door of their Riverslea Rd store with a crowbar and made off with the 19 heavy duty stainless steel trays full of meat, about 9pm on Thursday.
"Sorry to hear about your [burglaries], I hope we can help catch these low lives," Gayle Dominikovich wrote. "I will make sure that I will shop in your store each week from now on."
Appealing for information and sending a message to those responsible, Mrs McCarthy wrote a heartfelt message directly to the thieves, a move which garnered support from the community.
They had been broken into just four months earlier and believe it may have been the same culprits.