Crime Blotter: Someone Really Did Steal His Lunch

We hear all the time about "crimes of opportunity" in which a burglar busts out a car window to steal the GPS system or the cellphone they find on the car seat.

But stealing a lunch box? Really? Is the economy that bad?

But that's apparently what happened on Dec. 12, according to a report from the Olivette Police Department: "Unknown subject broke a window out of the victim's van and stole a lunch box."

The incident happened on Bauer Boulevard, in what Olivette police Det. Craig Schneider described as a commercial area of the city on the north side. He speculated that the lunch was from a worker parked at one of the businesses.

Schneider said it was an "adult" lunch box — not a child's Scooby-Doo or Power Rangers box — but he didn't know if it actually had Dec. 12's lunch in it.

The lesson: Remember not to leave you valuables in view in your car — even if your valuables are only your lunch box.