Social media post claimed boxes of nappies stored in lift lobby had expired and were up for grabs
Hong Kong police are searching for a middle-aged man in connection with false claims on social media that dozens of boxes of nappies temporarily left in a lift lobby had expired and were up for grabs.
The 38-year-old owner of a baby product store who left the goods in the lobby filed a police report at 5.40pm on Saturday, after a friend alerted him to the social media post.
The prankster allegedly took a photo of the nappies in the fifth-floor lift lobby of Golden Dragon Industrial Centre Block 3 in Kwai Fong and posted it to a Facebook group, saying that they had expired and were “free for the taking” before Monday.
Twenty-four boxes, worth around HK$7,000 (US$900), out of 66 had gone as of Saturday.
