Labubu Toys Worth Over S$200 Stolen From Self-Service Shop; Thieves Left Behind 20 Thai Baht As Payment

Running a self-service shop requires a lot of trust in your customers and faith in humanity in general. 

Unfortunately that trust can sometimes be a little misplaced, as the owner of a 24-hour self-service store located in Havelock II Mall near Chinatown recently learnt. 

According to Shin Min Daily News, two men who visited the store at about 2.30am on Mar 14 allegedly walked out of the shop with two third-generation Labubu plush toys dressed in zombie outfits, each worth more than S$100, along with a stack of tattoo stickers.

All the items amounted to a total of about S$270, but all the men left behind was a single 20 Thai baht note, which amounts to about S$0.75.

The shop operates on a fully self-service concept, where customers can walk in 24 hours a day, pick items from open shelves, and pay either by scanning a QR code or dropping cash into a payment box.

The shop owner, a 40-year-old woman surnamed Qu, told reporters she noticed the unusual Thai banknote when she checked the shop’s cash box at about 3pm later on the same day.

Curious, she reviewed the CCTV footage.

That’s when she discovered two men had entered the shop around 2.30am and stayed for nearly two hours.

One grey-haired man was later seen taking a Labubu plush toy hanging on the wall at around 3am.

About 90 minutes later, a younger man allegedly took around 50 tattoo stickers before dropping the 20 baht note into the payment box and left the store.

Interestingly, Qu said the grey-haired man had also visited the shop the day before. During that visit, he paid for four tattoo stickers via mobile payment.

However, CCTV footage allegedly showed him using the tattoo stickers to cover a Labubu toy before taking it.

Qu has since filed a police report, and the Singapore Police Force confirmed that they have received the report and that investigations are ongoing.

In the meantime, the story has left many netizens amused.

“Faith in humanity broken,” one commented.

Another asked: “Labubus are still in trend?”

Well, trendy enough for them to be stolen.

Photos: Zaobao