An unknown intruder has been causing trouble in this market for a week!
What the intruder is after is one thing
THIS
Butcher's son: I was confused that the fat disappeared.
There's no entry for cats to come in and it is too big for rats to carry it
Butchery owner: There must be something here
A mystery in this butchery!
Butcher owner: Something comes in and brings fat with it Production crew: Fat?
Butchery owner: Yes, the skin and left overs, we have a bucket to keep them. Something digs it and brings it with it
Not even a good part, but only fat..
Butcher's son: You see the dark bits on the board
I cleaned it last night before clock out and I saw this in this morning
I looked for it all around, I couldn't find it. It's all walls. Where the fridge is, too, and we shut that door at night
There's nowhere in this butchery that an intruder could enter
When clocking out, they close the shutter so there's no entry at all
What's even more strange
Butchery owner: The fat disappeared in our store, appears in another shop
The fat that disappeared at the butcher is found in the grocery store next door!
It's been a week the fat has been appearing in the grocery store
Grocery store owner: 1-2KG worth of fat is stacked up in my store
As soon as she clocks in, first thing she does is to look for fat and clean it
Grocery store owner: I was startled and annoyed. It 's very annoying to clean it up, it takes all day
The unknown intruder doesn't touch anything else in the store, but only the fat!!
How does fat that disappeared in the butcher ends up in the grocery store next door??
the grocery store closes the shutter at night, too
Grocery store owner: I mean, there is a window here in the storage...
There's a window that connects the two stores, but it seems impossible for anyone to enter through this window
To find out who this intruder is who has strange taste
we decided to set up the watch cam and wait
The next morning
Butcher's son: The fat's gone, comepare it to what you took last night
It's clear that an intruder visited and stole it!!
The intruder that came by in the butcher last night, we're so close to catching that punk!!
Butcher's son: How strange. It moves too quickly I don't know what it is
Something fat, lanky and that has brown fur approaches
It's a weasel!
A wild weasel has been sneaking in and stealing fat from a market that's always packed and busy
How on earth could the weasel enter into the butchery?
Butchery owner: It's hiding somewhere we can't see
To track the weasel down
we are going to use fluorescer so we can see the traces of the weasel
he won't be able to get the fat without stepping onto the fluorescer applied board
Soon after, the weasel showed up
The weasel stepped on the fluorescer!
and brings his fav fat to the door
right before the exit, the weasle leaves the fat at the door and swoops his head in under the shutter...
then
the weasel leaves the fat at the shutter...
Soon, the weasel takes the fat from the outside of the shutter. How did he exit??
Where he was seen next was the grocery store next door
From the corner of the shutter, the weasel pulls out the fat
The passage that he used to move in and out was the little gap at the corner of the shutter
Like that, the weasel conveyed the fat from the butchery to the grocery store over night
We decided to follow the traces of the weasel with an expert
Wildlife expert, Park Byeong-Kown: Seeing that gap between footsteps are small, she's a small one
Because it's small, it left footsteps tight
We traced down the fluorescer and here the footsteps are gathered
Here, here. The gap here. The shutter goes down all the way but leaves a little gap here
This one has a gap. Through this gap, the weasel can enter
If there's a gap that's big enough to fit two fingers, weasels can pass through it freely.
This small gap under the shutter could be the entry for the weasel
Wildlife expert: This is too narrow to bring the fat out
and here, you can see the fluorescer in other directions, too. Look here
Footsteps are all clustered in one spot
The expert uses a line to see if the shutter is level
Wildlife expert: The gap here is the biggest you see
The weasel can come in and out through this
Through the gap that's just big enough for 2 fingers, he's been entering in and out of the butcher
Let's check if the grocery store has a gap they're mising, too
There was found a little gap at the corner of the shutter, too
Wildlife expert: This is a gate for weasel that lets him in stealthily
For weasel, both the butchery and the grocery store had a big gate for him to enter!
Then, why did he move the fat to the grocery store?
Wildlife expert: Weasels, rather than eating the food
they prefer to hide and store the food for fun
the weasel thinks that the gocery store has more stroage space and safe
and that's why the weasel's been bringing fat to the grocery store
And the reason why he's so obsessed to fat?
Wildlife expert: One of the traits of weasels is that if they get into a specific food, they'll eat it non-stop
to the point where it's worrying
They sometimes only eat chocolate or bread. They have very odd eating habit
The weasel is only eating fat and the expert is concerned of his health
The expert decided to return the weasel to the wild for its health
We set up the trap at the butcher
and waited until the weasel shows up
The weasel is here!
the weasel approaches the trap right away
Wildlife expert: He's in, he's in!
Bite on it....
Captured!!!
wildlife expert: It's a baby, it's young
this little one is the one who's been causing trouble
Wildlife expert: It's so young we have to move quick before it gets too tired
Heading to the mountain to release the fella!
Giving the fella sometime to get his head around
Once released, the fella bolts out to the mountain
Butcher's son: Bye-bye now. Take care of yoruself
Live happily in the wild where you belong!