Las Vegas Taco Shop Uses Footage of #Burglary as a #Commercial
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On Wednesday December 16th, the Frijoles and Frescas Taco shop in Las Vegas was burgled by 3 men. They smashed through the back door and made off with the cash register. Happily, the whole thing was caught on the security cameras. Rather than simply turning the footage over to the police (although presumably they've done that as well), they cut it together into an ad, an ad which claims through a written narrative that the three reprobates in question were actually just jonesing for some tacos.
The ad proceeds to both extol the virtues of the shop's output, and mercilessly mock the hapless thieves all in one fell swoop. It's beautiful. The tone does get more serious towards the end, as it includes an actual, genuine appeal to find the men responsible and bring them to justice, but that almost seems like a formality/reason to show their faces in close shot.
The video has been doing the rounds on Facebook and gradually gathering more steam, buoying thousands of people into helping track the burglars down. Hopefully the gambit will pay off in all the ways intended.
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Las Vegas Taco Shop Uses Footage of #Burglary as a #Commercial
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