Barefoot bandit swipes Taylor Swift cardboard cutout from award-winning ice cream shop

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An award-winning Southern California crystal pick parlor is asking for the public's assistance aft a barefoot thief was caught connected surveillance video stealing a life-size cardboard cutout of Taylor Swift during a bizarre Monday evening heist.

"It is with a dense bosom that we stock that our Taylor Swift standee has been stolen from our Camarillo store," Mister Softee wrote successful a Facebook post. "If you admit this guy, fto america know."

Surveillance video the store shared connected societal media shows the suspect, who was barefoot and wearing a achromatic T-shirt, achromatic joggers and a achromatic shot cap, walking into the store astatine astir 8:21 p.m.

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Surveillance video shows the barefoot fishy  entering Mister Softee successful  Camarillo moments earlier  carrying disconnected  a Taylor Swift cardboard cutout

Surveillance video shows the barefoot fishy entering the award-winning Mister Softee crystal pick store successful Camarillo earlier the theft of a Taylor Swift standee. (Mister Softee of Southern California Facebook)

He concisely looks astir earlier picking up the life-size Taylor Swift cut-out adjacent the entranceway and carrying it retired the beforehand doorway without appearing to interact with anyone.

Another space from the shop's surveillance cameras obtained by the New York Post appears to amusement the fishy earlier visiting the store with a radical of friends astir 8 p.m. Monday, wherever they appeared to bask crystal pick earlier leaving. The video appears to amusement the antheral returning unsocial astir 20 minutes later.

Surveillance representation  shows a barefoot fishy  carrying a Taylor Swift cardboard cutout retired  of Mister Softee successful  Camarillo

Security video captures the fishy carrying the life-size Taylor Swift standee toward the exit aft removing it from wrong the Camarillo crystal pick shop. (Mister Softee of Southern California Facebook)

The cardboard cutout was portion of a limited-time promotion for the shop's caller "Swiftie Swirl," which it introduced aft reports that a Mister Softee motortruck made an quality astatine the wedding festivities for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

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Mister Softee's Swiftie Swirl dessert is pictured successful  beforehand   of the Taylor Swift cardboard cutout earlier  it was stolen

The Taylor Swift standee served arsenic a photograph accidental for customers ordering Mister Softee's limited-time Swiftie Swirl dessert earlier it disappeared. (Mister Softee of Southern California Facebook)

"When TMZ dropped the quality that Mister Softee reportedly made its mode into the wedding festivities, we couldn't defy celebrating with a peculiar of our own," the concern wrote successful a societal media station announcing the dessert.

The "Swiftie Swirl" features vanilla brushed service blended with cooky dough and cocoa dip to make cocoa chips, topped with mini M&M's, whipped pick and rainbow sprinkles. The Camarillo determination besides invited customers to "grab a selfie with our Taylor standee" arsenic portion of the promotion.

Following the theft, the Ventura County crystal pick parlor, which won past year’s VC Reporter Best of Ventura County grant for Best Frozen Dessert, assured customers that the frozen dainty would stay disposable contempt the stolen display.

A chalkboard motion   advertises Mister Softee's Taylor Swift-inspired Swiftie Swirl dessert successful  Camarillo, California.

A motion wrong Mister Softee advertises the limited-time Swiftie Swirl dessert inspired by Taylor Swift. (Mister Softee of Southern California Facebook)

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"The Swiftie Swirl is inactive disposable successful Ventura and Camarillo this week," the store wrote. "Just nary much photograph ops successful Cam."

The surveillance video rapidly drew attraction online, with societal media users dubbing the fishy the "barefoot bandit" and joking that the deficiency of shoes mightiness assistance constrictive the search.

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"He came successful barefoot, truthful helium lives close," 1 commenter wrote.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Mister Softee for further information.

Stepheny Price is simply a Writer astatine Fox News with a absorption connected West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, nationalist and planetary transgression stories, homicide cases, and borderline security.

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