Now THAT is a thief!

[alyxen]

Polish bridge thief arrested

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WARSAW (AFP) - Polish police said on Friday they had arrested a man on suspicion of stealing a 200-metre-long, 360-tonne bridge, which had then been sold to a scrap metal yard.


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Danuta Wolk-Karaczewska, a police spokeswoman in the coastal city of Gdansk, said Friday that the 41-year-old suspect owned the warehouse where the 1.8-million-zloty (410,000-euro, 501,000-dollar) metal bridge had been packed up in pieces waiting to be taken away and placed.

The PAP news agency quoted her as saying the unidentified man had confessed to selling the bridge for 80,000 zlotys (18,000 euros) because he was in debt and faced a 10-year prison sentence.

The bridge disappeared earlier this month and was found by police at a scrap metal yard, cut into metre-long pieces.

In order to transport all the bridge sections the robber would have had to use 15 lorries, or make 15 separate trips, PAP said.

 

[Guest]

Good thing they caught him. He'd be after the brooklyn bridge next.

 

[cantdog]

Hey, a zloty's a zloty!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

And people say the Polish are stupid.....Ha!

 

[Clare Quilty]

The PAP news agency quoted her as saying the unidentified man had confessed to selling the bridge for 80,000 zlotys (18,000 euros) because he was in debt and faced a 10-year prison sentence.

Am I to assume from this that Poland still has debtor's prisons? How positively Dickensian.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

He must have been operating very fast, since no-one noticed that he was up to something before the bridge was already gone.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I going to try to steal the county courthouse stone by stone and see if anyone notices.

 

[oggbashan]

We in the UK just sell used bridges to Americans.

Og

 

[doormouse]

We in the UK just sell used bridges to Americans.

Og

Is that where the saying. 'London bridge is falling down..' comes from?

If it's broke, sell it to the yanks?

 

[oggbashan]

Is that where the saying. 'London bridge is falling down..' comes from?

If it's broke, sell it to the yanks?

London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Millennium Bridge were built by the City of London's Bridge Trustees.

They are a medieval foundation that owns land in the City of London. They have enough money to build a new bridge every 10 years.

The original London Bridge was replaced by Rennie's bridge (now in Lake Havasu City). The stonework for the original bridge was sold to several seaside resorts in Kent for use as sea defences. Some of the stones can still be seen in Margate and Herne Bay.

Then they sold Rennie's bridge to Lake Havasu City.

They didn't need to but the people who have been running the Bridge funds have been crafty businessmen (and now women as well) for hundreds of years. Some old institutions work well.

Og

PS. You used to be able to cross on the upper level of Tower Bridge free whenever the bridge was open for shipping. Now they charge a hefty sum for tourists. They don't need the money but tourists expect to pay.

 

[ferociouskittycat]

"Who's that trying to cross my bridge?" growled the Troll in a deep gravelly voice.

"It is I," whined the middle-sized billy goat.

Maybe this bridge thief was a Troll wanting to find his own billygoats?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

If it's broke, sell it to the yanks?

Hmmm, maybe this is why the French donated the statue of Liberty to USA?

 

[ferociouskittycat]

Hmmm, maybe this is why the French donated the statue of Liberty to USA?

Oh... you're badddddd



LOL

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I know. And I feel gooooooooooooooooood!

 

[ferociouskittycat]

I know. And I feel gooooooooooooooooood!

LOL

I still don't know how he managed to take the bridge without it being noticed while he was disassembling it

 

[Guest]

I know. And I feel gooooooooooooooooood!

I feel good if you feel good. (Eew, that would make Maths puke ).

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

You're right. We better tell her about this!