--- --- # Budding Young Criminal Mastermind Goes to Great Lengths to Sneak Sugar Out of a Restaurant by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 23, 2018 2:50 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 23, 2018 2:50 PM UTC [Kids](http://time.com/5331753/neymar-parody-video/) these days are nothing if not [resourceful](http://time.com/5367988/girl-amazon-spree/). The _San Francisco Chronicle_‘s pop culture critic Peter Hartlaub tweeted a photo of the extraordinary lengths his son went to in order to smuggle sugar packets out of a restaurant and it’s straight out of a jailbreak caper. According to the tweet, the little sugar lover loves to down [sugar](http://time.com/4485710/sugar-industry-heart-disease-research/) packets, and when his parents took to patting him down for contraband, he had to take matters into his own hands. His father said he hollowed out a breadstick, filled it with [sugar](http://time.com/collection/guide-to-weight-loss/4771515/cut-sugar-diet-nutrition/) packets, and closed it up, seeming to take inspiration from those old stories about baking a [file into a cake](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-file-inside-the-cake-true-tales-of-prison-escapes-15653967/) and smuggling it into prison. Unfortunately his parents were on to the ruse fairly quickly and busted him with the sugar. His father, while undoubtedly disappointed about his son’s sneakiness, still managed to seem impressed with the maneuver, which he compared to something you’d see in _The Shawshank Redemption_. > [](https://twitter.com/peterhartlaub/status/1031764296240222208) As to how a child would be able to carve out a breadstick and stuff it full of [sugar](http://time.com/4087775/sugar-is-definitely-toxic-a-new-study-says/) packets without his parents noticing, turns out that like in the best jail breaks, he may have had an accomplice: > [](https://twitter.com/peterhartlaub/status/1031772427636756480) While the boy’s parents may have their hands full, the crime world undoubtedly can’t wait to see what the little mastermind gets up to next. Kid Goes Viral for Hilarious Way He Stole Sugar ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5374491/kid-steals-sugar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5374491/kid-steals-sugar/"},"headline":"Budding Young Criminal Mastermind Goes to Great Lengths to Sneak Sugar Out of a Restaurant","datePublished":"2018-08-23T14:50:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:28.895Z","description":"A father shared the hilarious way his son tried to smuggles sugar out of a restaurant and it's going viral.","url":"https://time.com/5374491/kid-steals-sugar/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/5374491/kid-steals-sugar/","name":"Budding Young Criminal Mastermind Goes to Great Lengths to Sneak Sugar Out of a Restaurant"}}]}] ```