Doing good work doesn’t always get respect - especially when a thief seemingly targets your company.

Despite the high security, the Gold Rush Pub, on Old Hope Princeton Way, was broken into at 3:24 a.m. Monday morning.

It is not the loss of the weekend’s takes for the bar that bothers owners Justin and Lara Roberts, but the loss of $4,000 in cash from a fund raiser for breast cancer research.

“I thought I was doing something good and then someone does this,” said event organizer Maude Bredof, a breast cancer survivor herself. Bredof is hoping the thief will find a way to give back the donated cash.

The $4,000 was raised through ticket sales to the Friday night event at the pub, the live and silent auction with items donated by the local business community, and a toonie toss.

“I guess he did a little fundraising of his own that night… but he didn’t have to go store to store looking for donations,” adds a disappointed Bredof.

Staff found the small window at the back of the solarium entering the bar smashed open Monday morning.

Police fingerprinted the window, the bar, cash register and security box from where the cash had been stolen. Police reviewed on Monday recordings from the 16 security cameras that protect the bar.

“Somebody knew what they were doing, they knew exactly where to go,” adds bar owner, Justin Roberts. The Gold Rush Pub is well known for its almost weekly in-house fund raisers, donating all the food, to help raise cash for community causes.

On crystal clear video the thief, wearing a grey hoodie in an apparent attempt to hide his face, can be seen crawling in the tiny window, darting to the bar and cash register, and into the back office, and then out the back door within two minutes. Too heavily loaded, the suspect drops a bag of cash at the door – loonies and toonies scatter everywhere.