"Eat & Release": When Fishing Season Opens, Thief Trawls Fish Store, in Küçükçekmece

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 November 2024)

                           Hmmm something's fishy...

At the Yılmaz Balıkçı fish store on the shore road of Küçükçekmece

in Istanbul, Uğur Yaşar (32) sells and grills fish.  Last week on Monday 

a thief entered the store with an iron bar, broke open a freezer and made

off with 20 "palamut" ((bonito, short-finned tunny)) worth 150 TL each,

along with stealing some corn flour.  But considering the damage to be

insignificant, Yaşar did not file a police complaint. 

However (!), on 11 November the fish thief returned and staked out

the store at about 1 o'clock in the morning.  When he discerned that

no one was around the thief entered the store and stole some cargo

packages, two pairs of shoes belonging to the fishmongers, five five-

kilogram cans of oil, and 10 kilograms of corn flour.  Before fleeing, 

the thief tried again to get into the fish freezer but failed.  Instead, he 

took a laptop computer and mouse.

In the morning, seeing that he had been victimized again by the thief,

Yaşar went to the police with store security camera footage.  Yaşar

said that he has been running this fish store for 15 years.  He lamented

that "the last time the thief came he took salmon.  Before that he took

sea bass and turbot.  When the fishing season starts he comes regularly

and robs the store like it's his routine.  This time he made a big mess of

the store so I filed a complaint."