Vancouver bakery bandit calls to apologize, offers to pay for door, cupcakes

It seems Vancouver’s bakery bandit is definitely fairly candy.

Days after Sweet Something was damaged into by somebody who proceeded to steal six cupcakes, the business proprietor says the person accountable has known as to personally apologize.

“The big news is that our burglar gave us a call to the bakery,” proprietor Emma Irvine stated in an replace on TikTook.

She tells CityNews the decision got here in on Monday.

“He called the bakery at first and spoke to some of my staff and my amazing team was able to arrange a time for us to have a chat. He called me and immediately started profusely apologizing,” Irvine stated. 

“I couldn’t believe that he had called the bakery. I don’t know why, I just never thought somebody would call in after that. To have a conversation with him, it kind of closes the book on it for me. Sometimes getting broken into can be scary and this was, in a weird twist of emotions, kind of seems like a feel-good moment when I got to talk to him.”

She says the person has supplied to cowl the price of the door that was damaged on this weird incident. He’s additionally supplied to pay for the cupcakes he took.

“I actually asked him what he thought about the cupcakes and he said that he really, really enjoyed them, although, who knows if he felt like he had to tell me that,” Irvine stated with fun.

“I told him I wasn’t upset with him, I told him I wasn’t even mad.”

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The break-in occurred final week and was captured by surveillance cameras. The footage reveals the person kick the glass on the door in earlier than rigorously coming into the business.

Throughout the video, the person is seen strolling across the business, sitting down, and even cleansing up the mess created by the glass with a mop and bucket.

Before leaving with a field of six Chocolate Champagne cupcakes underneath his arm, Irvine says the bakery bandit left some selfies on the business cellphone. In them, he’s sporting orange sun shades.

In the wake of the break-in, Sweet Something was providing particular cupcakes, named Crime of Passion, to assist pay for the damaged door. The cupcakes featured the now-iconic orange sun shades, which Irvine says he’s promised to offer her.

“Which I am dying for. I feel like I would wear them all the time just to make light of the situation,” she stated.

Overall, Irvine says issues might have been a lot worse. She says for the reason that break-in was first reported, business positively picked up.

“There’s eyes on the business that would have never been there before. We even have people from the U.S. — in Texas, in Seattle — offering to buy cupcakes, saying they don’t even want them shipped, they just want to help support us because they saw our story. It’s really incredible what the online community can do for a small business,” she stated.

As for what compelled the person to interrupt in — Irvine says that’s nonetheless unclear.

“I think it was just one of those things. Our bakery was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” she joked.

She admits the apology has “really righted the wrong.”

The retailer has been working within the Dunbar neighbourhood for the previous 5 years.

-With recordsdata from Greg Bowman, Emily Marsten, and Cole Schisler

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