The Scottish honor box heist in the tiny island town of Canna has all 20 of its residents eyeing each other with a wee bit of suspicion now.
The brazen burglary of the hamlet’s general store this month is the first serious crime that’s happened there since someone stole a plate from the church in the early 1960s.
In fact, it could even close the shop down because it’s been all but wiped out of supplies as a result.
Hundreds of dollars worth of goods were pilfered from the community’s only retail outlet by petty thieves, including candy, coffee, toiletries, hand-knit hats, and money from the honor box.
The store has no full time clerk on duty or regular hours, but instead remains open 24/7, with payment made through an honor system -- customers are trusted to write a list of their purchases and leave exact cash for them.
In an isolated community that has roughly two-dozen citizens at any given time and no police force, that method of self serve has worked just swimmingly for decades … until last Friday night.
Locals haven’t a clue who the cheeky thugs might be, but investigators from the mainland think the timing of the Scottish honor box heist with the arrival in Canna of a small fishing vessel might not be just a coincidence.
The suspect boat had been docked for hours at a pier near the general store on the night it was robbed.
