Angry neighbour sends note to takeaway ‘thief’ who took in his £60 order and left him to ‘starve’

A NEIGHBOUR has sent an irate note to a takeaway "thief" who took his £60 order and left him to starve.

The meal-less man told the "thieving" neighbour to stump up the costs of the order or face the police on stealing charges.

The letter accuses the neighbour of making off with a £60 wagyu beef and salt and pepper prawns order from DoorDash.

"If you happened to be the one who accidentally claimed my order as yours, given it cost me $120, I'd love you to get in touch pronto and arrange reimbursement," he wrote in the scathing letter.

To make matters worse, he revealed he knew the identity of the thief and had seen him collecting the meal after going through the building's security footage.

He stuck the letter in the building for all to see and warned that, unless reimbursed, he'd lodge a formal complaint with the police.

"If you don't reimburse me, I'll have to do that time consuming video/police report thing," he said.

He refused to name them publicly or even reveal their floor number to save them the embarrassment and instead referred to them as "someone" in the long letter.

"If you (reimburse me), I'll assume it was an innocent/drunk/whatever error.

"If you don't want to get in touch with me directly, all good, just give (blanked out name) the money and he can pass it on to me."

The note was posted on Reddit after another neighbour spotted the "delightfully" passive aggressive letter and wanted to share it online.

Reddit users rallied about the famished man.

"If I had $120 worth of food stolen I'd be beyond hangry," one person wrote.

"I would be smashing doors and wrecking the place," another said.

"I can't stand s****** neighbours. I've dealt with many, my next door neighbour had her bike stolen from the bike storage locker under the building.

"In order to access this you need a keyfob for the gate. So you know it's someone you share the elevator with. I hope the s******* that took this guy's meal is embarrassed and pays up."

Others spoke about being left hungry when their orders didn't arrive.

"I once had a very long day and had skipped lunch and was starving. I ordered a salad and they took forever to come then when they dropped off the food in our lobby someone else took it," one woman wrote.

"I waited in case it was a mistake but they didn’t bring it back. I wanted to cry."

"One week after I arrived in Oz, I was in quarantine in Queensland and the food was awful so I ordered delivery once per day. 

"One day I had the same story as you except the driver ate my food. I ended up yelling, hitting my head on the wall, cause I hadn't eaten all day."