Broken fresher bravely outs thief who stole her burger after a night out

This is the moment a distraught fresher broke down after her burger was stolen on a night out.

Lassie Smith, 20, had her McDonald’s stolen after she paid for it and was refused a refund after crying to store managers.

But brave Lassie, who studies Interior Architecture at Nottingham Trent, started a twitter campaign to catch the culprit, and inadvertently landed herself a date.

She told the Tab: “I was smashed, chatting to some random boy on his own in the queue. We both ordered and paid, then about 40 minutes later I thought ‘Where’s my burger?’.

“I asked the person who took my order how long it will be and he told me that he gave it to my friend, referring to the random guy I had spoken to. I explained this to him and he wouldn’t replace my burger so I demanded to speak to a manager and ended up crying.

“I returned home, fuming. In the morning a friend had text a picture of me talking to a boy, who I then realised was the burger thief. I put the picture upon twitter in an attempt to find the boy.”

If anyone knows this guy please contact me ASAP regarding the thieving of my burger pic.twitter.com/RBlUJfaeve

— Lassie Smith (@LassieSmith) May 15, 2015

Her appeal received 10 retweets and 28 favourites, enough for her to discover the “burger thieving scoundrel” was Harry Wilkinson.

Hapless Harry accidentally outed himself by tweeting: “Can’t believe I stole a McDonald’s last night. That poor girl must have been starving.”

The self confessed burger thief was quick to realise the error of his ways and invited fresher Lassie on a date to replace the stolen burger.

Lassie with Tab man Matt

Relishing the opportunity, the pair ended up in Five Guys, where Harry confessed he fell asleep before eating the stolen burger.

She continued: “When I found out who he was I contacted him and asked ‘shall we go for a burger and take a picture for our fans?’. He accepted, but when we got to McDonald’s and saw how long the queue was, he offered to take me to Five Guys instead.

“After talking to him it turned out he wasn’t a complete stranger and we had actually met before on my flatmates birthday but we were both too drunk to remember.

“It also turned out that after he had taken my burger, he woke up the next morning, fully clothed and hadn’t even eaten my burger which pissed me off more than if he had actually eaten it since I went home starving!”.

Unfortunately for Lassie, trolls berated her for her love of burgers. One asked why she didn’t buy another, saying: “Is your food budget really that limited when living on a student loan?”

Lassie said: “It wasn’t about the burger, it was the principle. I’d tweeted my friend to bring me a cheeseburger back in November and they found it, I probably look like some weird burger girl!”.

But clearly burgers are no aphrodisiac, as love did not blossom over buns for the pair.

Lassie said: “I’ll probably see him around but not for burgers.”