Duel of the hams

If you read Fark, then you may have already heard about Joe Scola, a Gloucester restaurant owner who battled with a would-be meat thief with a frozen ham last Wednesday. Unfortunately Fark only links to the AP's "news bizarre" blurb - the whole story can be found in the Gloucester Daily Times:

When he glanced outside, he saw his waitress returning from a break. She asked him, "Who's that guy carrying the meat down the street?" Scola recounted yesterday.

It was that moment that Scola saw a man in his 30s, dressed all in black, running down Liberty Street with his arms full of meat from the restaurant's freezer.

When Scola caught up to the thief and turned to face him, he saw that he was carrying 20 pounds of frozen meat — two bags of linguica, a prosciutto log and a ham.

"What are you doing with my food?" Scola said he asked the suspect.

"I'm really hungry, man," the suspect replied.

Give the robber credit for good taste, if nothing else - owing to its large Portuguese immigrant population Gloucester's got some damned good linguica...