Two teenage boys in Australia have told of how they queued for two hours
to buy doughnuts from Adelaide’s first Krispy Kreme store, only to have
them stolen at knifepoint moments later.
One of the 17-year-old victims said he wanted to celebrate the start of
his apprenticeship with doughnuts for his new boss and family.
When he and a friend arrived at the West Croydon store at just before
10:00pm on Wednesday, the drive-through was closed so they parked
nearby.
After two hours in the queue they returned to their car with six boxes
of doughnuts when the thief struck.
“He was pretty much saying ‘if you don’t give me the doughnuts now I’m
going to stab you’,” one of the boys said.
The thief took the doughnuts but did not demand anything else.
The other victim said: “It’s pretty bad,
you think he’d take the money or something, but he took the doughnuts.”
Police hope security video will help identify the suspect. They want any
witnesses to come forward.
The thief is described as a Caucasian man aged 16 to 20, about 165cm
tall and wearing a black hooded jumper and black trackpants.
Doughnut chain Krispy Kreme this week opened its first South Australian
chain, with some customers queuing outside for days before the opening.
The store manager Mark Higginbottom believes the robbery was an isolated
incident, but he will be beefing up security just in case.
He has promised to replace the stolen doughnuts, but the boys say they
are too frightened to revisit the store.
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