YOU can get it liftin'. You can get it shiftin'. And now, apparently, you can get it while breaking the law.

For two young thieves an early morning robbery of the Annandale Hotel proved thirsty work.

After breaking in through a back entrance in the beer garden of the inner Sydney venue about 6.30am yesterday the thieves, a man and a woman, rifled through the tip jars.

Then they broke open a cash register only to discover the previous night's takings had already been removed.

So they poured themselves a beer from the tap and treated themselves to a banana Paddle Pop.