This story is just so weird, I have to share it. And, as all papers reporting it hasten to add, it is really true:

For the last few weeks, Germany's newspapers have been full of reports about data privacy scares, with confidential banking data from several sources appearing on the black market or even in public. The latest in that string was a package a newspaper received that contained ten thousands of credit card billing data on microfiche. They were supposed to be part of a transfer between the Berlin-based bank issuing the cards and an accoutancy firm handling the actual billing. This led to a new slew of public debate, today even the Berlin city parlament (as the owner of the bank) staged a hearing about the scandal and the blatant breach of security.

Today, the investigating state attorney announced the case was solved. Here is what really happened: Two employees of a messenger service got hungry and began to search through the packages they were sorting for Christmas cookies. What they found was a Christstollen, a traditional german christmas pastry, designated for the newspaper, which they opened and ate up. Then, trying to cover up their theft, they took one of a group of six packages on their way from the accountancy firm to the bank and glued to it the label from the Christstollen packet, assuming that one of six identical parcels missing would not be as conspicious as one missing completely. And so the credit card data got redirected to the newspaper.

The state attorney commented today that "they never before commited such manpower to resolving a case of cake theft". The hungry employees could face up to five years in prison for the suppression of mail.

What? All the details of the currant accounts?

Ouch!

Were there any other raisins for the crime, or just hunger.

They wanted dessert, but they just didn't have the dough?

Well, it would appear that they will receive their just desserts now.

An awful punishment for such a trifling affair.

the cake was named "stolen": what do you expect to happen to it?

(it's o.k. PH, I know that I left the "l" out)

Aaaaah...

For almost one month you kept me waiting for that pun. I was really wondering.

It was only when re-reading the thread that I realised that we had missed it out. Forgive us!