(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- As one police official put it, it's as low down as taking candy from a baby: stealing cookies from the Girl Scouts. And Chicago authorities are investigating just such an incident.
Authorities say the Thin Mint thieves are still at large after taking about $450 in Girl Scout cookies as a truck was being unloaded on the Northwest Side on Saturday afternoon in the 6100 block of West Higgins Road.
Two suspects were seen taking the items before fleeing, police said.
Julie Somogyi, a spokesperson for Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, said the Scouts council -- not the girls -- will absorb the cost of the stolen cookies.
"We're replacing those cookies, but you know it does come out of the program somewhere."
Word of the theft has spread. Even though southwest suburban Palos Park is far from the scene of the cookie crime, Palos Park Police Chief Joe Miller was so appalled by the story that he posted the news on his department's social media.
"It's a term used sometimes in the course of an investigation -- taking cookies from a Girl Scout -- terminology used in a joking manner. It's hard to believe someone actually did it."
The Girl Scouts say those Northwest Side troop members will chalk it up to experience.
"I think the girls have learned a really interesting lesson about life and people," Somogyi says. "And they're probably going to make sure that when they are working with their boxes and cases of cookies I'm sure they're going to be very protective."
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