Daily London
The group, known for their comedy skits paying homage to their Italian heritage, said an office near their Carlton restaurant Johnny, Vince and Sam’s Ristorante, was broken into around 7pm.
CCTV vision posted to the Sooshi Mango Instagram page shows a man wearing jeans and a cream coloured jumper using his body to force open the door to the office.
He then rifled through a series of drawers before fleeing empty-handed.
“He didn’t end up stealing anything because he couldn’t find anything of value,” the comedy troupe said in a post to Instagram.
“We are Italians, we don’t leave our cash in obvious places,” they joked.
The group, made up of brothers Carlo and Joe Salantri along with close friend Andrew Manfre, warned the would-be thief “tried to rob the wrong place” after airing the footage to their 3.1 million followers.
“If we can stop him from taking advantage of just one other honest business then we have done our job,” they said.
“Perhaps if Victoria had stricter laws these filthy rotten leaches (sic) wouldn’t have the confidence to go around breaking into places in broad daylight,” the group wrote.
“With what’s going on at the moment, especially all the home invasions and so forth, everyone’s feeling a bit unsafe at the moment,” Joe said.
“Let’s get these laws a little bit stronger so people are scared to do them.”
Police confirmed they were investigating a commercial burglary on Drummond Street.
No arrests have been made.
