Whitehorse Daily Star

Power tool used to drop into restaurant

Pizza, wings and beer aren't on the menu after all for the thief or thieves who took a number of gift certificates on Saturday night after breaking into the Pizza Hut restaurant.

By Whitehorse Star on February 5, 2007

Pizza, wings and beer aren't on the menu after all for the thief or thieves who took a number of gift certificates on Saturday night after breaking into the Pizza Hut restaurant.

The gift certificates can't be used because they weren't signed.

Whitehorse RCMP were called to the Second Avenue restaurant at 8:16 Sunday morning.

They were summoned after it was discovered someone had broken in through the roof, RCMP spokeswoman Brigitte Parker said this morning.

A manager noticed the break-in when staff were coming in to work on Sunday. Power tools and an outlet were used to get in through the roof.

'It was just ridiculous,' owner Rob Fahr said this morning.

Inside, an office door was pried open. It appeared the room had been rifled through, with a safe also being tampered with, though nothing was taken.

While the culprit(s) didn't get away with anything in the safe, they did make off with the Pizza Hut gift certificates, an ipod that was sitting on a desk and some loose change, Fahr said.

It was only three days before the break-in that Fahr had called around looking for prices on motion cameras for the business. The cameras have since been ordered.

Since the break-in, there have been a few people who have come into the restaurant trying to use the gift certificates without much luck.

'We've got a couple of leads,' Fahr said.

Police are continuing to investigate the break-in, Parker said.

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