Homeowner blames militant vegan for missing milk…
After weeks of missing milk deliveries, a house owner finally caught the thief on digicam — and it wasn’t who he anticipated.
Gordon Campbell, 42, who lives close to Glasgow, Scotland, set up a security digicam after bottles of milk repeatedly disappeared from his doorstep, news company SWNS reported.
When he checked the footage, he found a younger fox had been serving to itself to the deliveries.
Video exhibits the animal trotting up the entrance steps, grabbing a glass bottle of milk in its mouth, knocking it over and carrying it away.
The thriller had been unfolding for about a month, Campbell told SWNS. At first, he suspected a particular person was accountable.
He even joked that the perpetrator may need been “a militant vegan” before discovering it was really a fox.
A photograph of the fox stealing the milk, as the animal was caught on a hidden digicam. Gordon Campbell / SWNS
“I didn’t really know exactly who would be doing it,” Campbell said. “I thought it was a person or an animal.”
“The magpies got the blame for a while, as they’re really smart birds, but I was thinking they probably wouldn’t have the strength to roll a bottle away.”Determined to resolve the thriller, Campbell set up what he described as a “sting” by putting a spare glass bottle crammed with milk outdoors while positioning a digicam to seize the perpetrator.
The fox had been taking the milk for about a month. Gordon Campbell / SWNS
The plan labored within hours. Just after 2:30 a.m. on July 20, the fox appeared and took the bait.
“I just thought it was kind of hilarious that this… cute fox was popping up and taking it away,” Campbell said.
“All was forgiven when I saw its big ears and its wee face.”
Gordon Campbell plans to fox-proof his milk deliveries going ahead. Gordon Campbell / SWNS
Campbell had been receiving milk deliveries since the COVID-19 pandemic but briefly stopped the service because of the repeated thefts, opting to buy milk at the grocery store instead, he said.
Now that he is aware of who’s been taking the bottles, Campbell said he could resume the deliveries but plans to depart a protecting box outdoors, so the milk could be saved safely.
The fox wasn’t making its first look around the household’s home.
Just months earlier, Campbell’s cat, Bruce, chased another fox away after it tried to get into the home through the cat door.
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