The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.

Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.

The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he's become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.

Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny

The BBC reported shop assistant Sriaram Nagarajan as saying of Sam:

He's got it down to a fine art. He waits until there are no customers around and I'm standing behind the till, then he raids the place.

At first I didn't believe a seagull was capable of stealing crisps. But I saw it with my own eyes and I was surprised. He's very good at it.

He's becoming a bit of a celebrity

A spokesman for Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) also noted of Sam:

I've never