Edhat Staff
A group of men were caught on camera stealing from Rose Cafe’s patio in Santa Barbara’s Mesa neighborhood.
Around 2:00 a.m. Sunday, approximately four white men in their 20s were walking down the 1800 block of Cliff Drive. Surveillance footage captured one of the men entering the restaurant’s patio and walking off with an item.
“Wait wait wait.. my rooster,” one of the men can be heard saying in the video as he picks up a wooden lattic with a ceramic rooster attached and walks in the direction of Meigs Road.
The restaurant’s owner, Lalo Barajas, posted the video on social media.
“Does anyone recognize these guys? On Saturday night, around 2am, some of our property was stolen from our front patio area by some seemingly drunk young men. A ceramic rooster, a lattice, and some other objects were stolen,” he wrote.
Barajas stated he is giving the thieves a few days to return the items before a police report will be filed with footage of the suspects from his building and surrounding businesses.
“We have taken great pride in creating a welcoming and inviting patio area for all of our customers to enjoy and it is extremely disheartening to know that someone did this to us,” Barajas stated.
The video is available below:
Turds
City College fools no doubt.
Maybe???
BASIC – so you know these guys? If not, here’s a little tip: not every young man who walks along the Mesa at night is an SBCC student. Plenty from “your” school out there too. Also, plenty of non-students live there. Might even be, gasp, local high school students (there are parties on the Mesa where high school kids go). If fact, living near a school doesn’t necessarily mean you go to it. Heck, I live near Ellwood elementary and I don’t go there. Cool stuff to think about before assuming and belittling.
Clearly a group of drunk kids. shame
This is a worthy news item?
Yes. Theft is a newsworthy item. Especially if they are trying to find the perp.
Did they steal a car? Kitchen equipment? A safe full of money? Oh wait – it was a ceramic chicken – this may deserve an all points bulleting.
five white guys stealing one ceramic chicken captured on video-You bet it is!
Yes, IMPORTANT, the nature of very local news. Important to those in the time frame and the proximity to and of these events.
Agreed most likely SBCC students but that’s just a guess and I suppose it’s irrelevant unless that helps identify them in some way.
So whenever I see young people committing ate night drunken crimes in Goleta, they’re most likely UCSB students, right? If 20 somethings pull some drunk shenanigans in Montecito, they’re most likely Westmont students? Oh man…. here’s a conundrum! What if young adults commit drunken stupidity in downtown SB? Brooks students? Non-students? Tourists? I’ll leave that to the “educated guessers” here I suppose.
To me though? They look and act high school aged. Now, what school????
Young and stupid.
It would be great to get an update if the punks get caught.
Looks like only one person did anything illegal, but unfortunately, his/her face is too blurry in the video. Even if caught, I wouldn’t expect any prison (or jail) time.
Not much in the video to help identify these people. IMO would have been better to go with the article alone and let them believe there was good info on the video. Property might have been returned if they believed they could be identified.