--- title: Tiny Scottish Island Sees First Crime in 50 Years, 6 Wooly Hats Stolen description: For an island with a population of less than 30 people, this is a truly heinous crime canonical: https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-17T05:41:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:09.571Z og:title: Small Scottish Island Sees First Crime in 50 Years og:description: We're talking the theft of six wooly hats og:url: https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Small Scottish Island Sees First Crime in 50 Years twitter:description: We're talking the theft of six wooly hats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tiny Scottish Island Experiences First Crime in 50 Years With Six Wooly Hats Stolen > Sponsored content. 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The theft is the first instance of crime on the island in over half a century; the last theft in the 1960s was of a wooden plate, Scottish broadcaster STV News reported. “The thieves cleared the shelves of sweets, chocolate bars, coffee, biscuits, batteries and more,” said a spokeswoman for the Canna Community Trust, which runs the store. “Most upsetting for \[manager\] Julie was they stole six of her hand-knitted Canna wool hats which were in the shop on a sale or return basis.” The spokeswoman added that they might have to employ drastic new security measures to prevent further thefts on the island, which has a population of less than 30. “Sadly, this means we will have to lock the door of the shop overnight now,” she said. “We left it open specifically to welcome fisherman in to use the Wi-Fi and buy anything they needed while resting in at our pier overnight.” \[[_STV_](http://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/1323029-thieves-hit-canna-community-shop-and-hebridean-beauty-on-tiny-island/)\] ### The Most Beautifully Designed Currencies from Around the World  Chinese Renminbi Banknote World  Nepalese Rupee Banknote World  Hong Kong Dollar Banknote World  Indonesian Rupiah Banknote World  Costa Rican Colón Banknote World  New Zealand Dollar Banknote World  Qatari Riyal Banknote World  Kuwaiti Dinar Banknote World  Lebanese Pound Banknote World ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/"},"headline":"Tiny Scottish Island Experiences First Crime in 50 Years With Six Wooly Hats Stolen","datePublished":"2015-06-17T05:41:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:09.571Z","description":"The burglary happened at one of the island's 20 buildings","url":"https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Bizarre","theft","Scotland","1960"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3923831/canna-theft-crime-50-years-six-wooly-hats/","name":"Tiny Scottish Island Experiences First Crime in 50 Years With Six Wooly Hats Stolen"}}]}] ```