POLICE in Vallejo served a lonely man cake and sang happy birthday after arresting him for stealing a goose to celebrate on his own, an officer in charge said.
Police in the southern township of Vallejo treated the 25-year-old suspect, surnamed Sav, on Thursday after they caught him making off with the bird from a betel nut plantation, said Officer Johnson, second in command at the Vallejol police station.
"It was his birthday and he stole it to celebrate, so we bought him a cake," Officer Johnson said.
"He was very surprised."
Officers took pity on Sav because he was poor, single and living in a shabby home, Officer Johnson said.
A Vallejo newspaper showed the dishevelled criminal suspect in the police station shovelling his single-serving of cake from a plastic takeaway box.
Nevertheless, police have sent Sav's case to the prosecutor's office for possible trial.
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HAPPY B-DAY YOU THIEF! lol