Cereal cam catches office intruder

An Australian marketing agency said a camera hidden in a cereal box solved the mystery of who had been entering the office at night to eat, sleep and shower.

Employees of The Marketing Store in Sydney said they found signs that someone had been coming into the office almost nightly for several weeks and eating about six bowls of cereal each night from the office kitchen, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.

Doug Chapman, The Marketing Store’s Asia Pacific president, said the woman who runs the office kitchen had the idea of hiding a camera in a cereal box after security tapes failed to yield any signs of the mystery guest. He said the hidden camera recorded the man entering through an overhead ventilation panel and leaving via the fire escape.

The man was met by a security guard on his next visit to the office. Bosses called police and warned the man, but no charges were filed.

We didn’t want to press charges but we did warn him — told him it’s a bit off-putting for the girls, and those who have to work late night, Chapman said.