A fumbling thief has been burned in his attempt to steal a meal.

He was recorded by security cameras at Forrest Road Fresh in Armadale.

The store owner says the man stuffed spaghetti down his pants around 3pm on Saturday.

Vision shows him struggling to walk down the aisle before the heat gets too much and he drops his pants — and the spaghetti.

Workers say a trail of sauce led them to the crime scene. The young thief has been banned.

It’s not the first time a customer has been caught trying to make away with free goods.

In June a WA cafe was left shocked when a customer nabbed vegetables from their kitchen garden.

The Crooked Carrot cafe posted images of the alleged veggie-patch thief, with a woman shown walking out of the popular Forrest Highway stop with her arms full of produce.