{"id":55683,"date":"2025-04-27T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55683\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:50:10","slug":"edinburgh-home-owner-baffled-after-easter-egg-bandit-raids-car-in-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55683\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh home owner baffled after Easter egg bandit raids car in driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Edinburgh resident has shared footage of a man entering their driveway and gaining entry to their car.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, which was captured on Wednesday, April 23, at around 7.30am in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/corstorphine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Corstorphine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Corstorphine<\/a>, shows the male opening the car door before allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stealing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">stealing<\/a> an Easter egg.<\/p>\n<p>Over the space of the next 30 seconds, he can be seen opening up the box and unwrapping what appears to be a large Mini Egg treat.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/edinburgh-best-worst-high-schools-134025830.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh best and worst high schools ranked in new Sunday Times league table;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh best and worst high schools ranked in new Sunday Times league table<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/spice-girls-star-geri-halliwell-113610828.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spice Girls star Geri Halliwell-Horner spotted in Edinburgh as fans say same thing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spice Girls star Geri Halliwell-Horner spotted in Edinburgh as fans say same thing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He then appears to stuff the chocolate egg into his pocket before throwing the discarded rubbish back into the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The home owner said they were puzzled by the behaviour, as an expensive paddle board lay across the back seat next to the egg.<\/p>\n<p><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b> <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/b><\/a><b> <b>and get the latest news sent<\/b> <b>straight to your messages.<\/b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> &#8220;It was really bizarre,&#8221; they said. &#8220;He broke into my car and took a chocolate Easter egg and unwrapped it all. &#8220;He then pocketed the chocolate and put all the rubbish back into my car. There was a \u00a3400 paddleboard on the back seat that he ignored.  <b> <b>Sign up for<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=52589817-5145-4bda-812c-35c36c95fb08&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b> Edinburgh Live newsletters <\/b> <\/a> <b>for more headlines straight to your inbox<\/b> <\/b>  &#8220;It felt equally violating and bizarre. It is confusing behaviour.&#8221; Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Edinburgh resident has shared footage of a man entering their driveway and gaining entry to their car.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,28978,29443,29444,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-55683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-car","10":"tag-chocolate-egg","11":"tag-easter-egg","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114411904949686016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}