If it is not nailed down ...

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:22 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3520281.stm

Cuchulain · Post by **Cuchulain** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:42 pm

Bloody hell!
Mind you, there was that gang that nicked a couple of miles worth of railway track last year

Did you see the bit about the bridge, on the end of the article?

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:02 pm

That is an incredibly sad story! And all for a couple of grand.

I could start going all political now, but I just can't be arsed really.

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:35 pm

Fodda wrote:That is an incredibly sad story! And all for a couple of grand.

That would probably feed a family of four for ten years in the Ukraine?

The tracks are missing from much of old Bletchley to Oxford line and I don't think it was the rabbits

alex2008 · Post by **alex2008** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:36 pm

WOW! They really do go to some effort just for steel, sad, that loco looked quite nice, and sad that they managed to steal a whole bridge, that country has some issues by the looks of it.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:06 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3514061.stm

Theres a lot of it about!

suffolk · Post by **suffolk** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:29 pm

But how on earth can you steal an 11 metre bridge without someone noticing something odd is going on

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:43 pm

When an old church in Kemp Town Brighton was being demolished, back around 1970 if I remember rightly, there were two bells in the tower. It took the contractors all weekend to remove the smaller one. When they came back the next day, the other one had gone.

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:43 pm

Can you imagine that? A lorry driving down the street with your local bridge on the back of it!

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:13 pm

They stole a stone bridge near me.

Good quality stone is expensive.