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A tomato-stealing squirrel is on the loose in the Big Apple.

The beady-eyed thief was caught red-handed by an eagle-eyed parkgoer who spotted the squirrel nosing around into a plastic bag.

“First came #PizzaRat. Then there was #MilkShakeSquirrel,” wrote YouTuber Bigkrisp, referring to the city’s recent spate of resourceful critters. “And now we have #TomatoSquirrelThief.”

“One afternoon in NYC my wife was sitting on a bench and when she got up to say hi to her friend this squirrel came and stole one of her tomatoes,” he noted.

With the veggies left unattended, the squirrel moved in for a precision strike — jumping onto the bench and rolling the tomato out of the bag.

Unlike the world famous pizza-loving subway rat, the health-conscious squirrel was able to make off with his purloined booty.

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