(CNN) When their tomatoes began disappearing, a family in Montreal assumed it was the work of a squirrel. But when they checked their security camera, they saw the tomato thief was none other than their mailman.

Now, they want an apology.

Rob Morin told CNN that he and his wife regularly grow fruit in hanging baskets outside their home in the Mount Royal neighborhood and said he expected the culprit to be a squirrel.

"Each year we hang out tomatoes and strawberries in front of our house," Morin told CNN. "This year after many were ripe, we noticed they were going missing. We first thought it was the squirrels, but normally the squirrels leave a mess and there was not a mess on the ground where the plants were."

After wondering where his produce was going for weeks, Morin's home's security camera cracked the case: It had been the mailman all along.

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