Footage of store staff pelting a would-be robber with canned food after he tried to rob a Tauranga dairy will be broadcast on Police Ten 7 this week.
Police Ten 7 was in town filming at the Crazy Clearance and Convenience Store on Cameron Rd yesterday.
The segment will feature
as Crime of the Week on Thursday's episode in a bid to find the man who attacked the shop manager with a mallet-shaped piece of wood as he tried to steal cigarettes and money on March 4.
Tauranga Detective Constable Dwayne Morgan talked the show's presenter Graham Bell through the brazen crime.
"It was a pretty violent robbery. One of the victims was attacked by this wooden mallet thing," Mr Bell said. "It would appear that this offender is not a towering intellect. He certainly hasn't thought it through. It appears spur of the moment to me."