Police officers on Thursday nabbed a 55-year-old man who stole a packet of cheese from a local supermarket and then tried to elude arrest by using a cement mixer as his "getaway car."

"He was out on the job and suddenly got hungry, as honest workers sometimes do," said police spokesman in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

According to the police, the man leaped into his cement mixing truck outside after a shop detective caught him stealing a $3.95 packet of processed cheese.

The shop immediately alerted the police, who were able to arrest the man after stopping his truck at a red light just a few hundred meters away.