“At first, I thought I’d just been hit, but then I felt the punch and saw blood on my hands. “I was thinking ‘this is real’. I felt really scared at the time, it was like something out of a movie, it was the first time I’d experienced something like that.” Shin suffered a knife wound to the kidney and spent a week in hospital recovering. The store manager of four years runs a YouTube page called Auckland Liquor Thief, which he started out of frustration over the rising the number of incidents. He posts CCTV video of thefts at his store and the most popular one has received international news coverage.