Shocking footage has captured the moment a group of young thieves raided a bottleshop, stealing three shopping bags full of alcohol.
The offenders were filmed at a BWS in Newcastle, casually filling three bags with as many bottles of spirits as they could carry last month.
Footage showed the thieves, wearing hooded jumpers and masks, deliberately placing each bottle into the bags to ensure none of them broke as they raided the store.
Despite clearly being filmed by other customers, the teenagers continued helping themselves to the alcohol, then calmly walked out of the store.
An employee behind the register was seen watching but didn’t intervene.
The footage sparked outrage over the apparent lack of consequences for such crimes.
‘It’s all fun and games until they are emboldened enough to go back and rob the cashier at knifepoint half an hour later, which is what is happening in Brisbane at the moment,’ one said.
‘Losers that steal s*** rather than getting a job and contributing to society. The cameraman is spineless as well,’ a second added.
Three teens, wearing hoodies and masks, were captured piling bottles of spirits into reusable shopping bags at a BWS in Newcastle, 170km north-east of Sydney (pictured)
The teenagers were seen delicately placing each new bottle into the shopping bags to make sure none of them smashed before they calmly left the store
‘The era of “let’s just stand there and record it and do nothing about it”. The flogs recording it are as bad as the flogs doing it,’ a third said.
The incident was reported to Lake Macquarie Police District and an investigation is now underway.
All three thieves remain at large and anyone with information on their whereabouts has been urged to call Crime Stoppers.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted BWS for comment.
