Man steals $34K in LEGO, replaces them with pasta

Turns out the system is less “trust but verify” and more “shake the box and hope for the best.”

The theory was that when people shook the box, they heard “LEGO” rather than “penne”. The scam worked briefly, but the LEGO bandit is now in custody.

“One of the cases that occurred here in Orange County, they shared that they opened the box and instead of Legos, they found bags of dry pasta,” Officer Ziggy Azarcon said.

Investigators said the dry pasta m…