SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- In what could qualify for Ripley's Believe It or Not, seven thieves stole an entire 13-yard bridge near the southern Bosnian town of Mostar, police said Friday.
Over several days, the group dismantled the metal bridge built during the Austro-Hungarian empire 150 years ago, transported the parts to a local junk yard and sold them, a police statement said.
While it all happened in a remote mountainous region, local villagers saw the thieves loading parts of the bridge into vans and alerted police last Friday. The seven men were arrested and are being held pending a decision by a prosecutor.
Without disclosing their names, police said the Gypsies, or Roma, sold the metal parts for $170.
Darn those Roma!
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)
"ha."
"no, really, i have a bridge in brooklyn i would like to sell you."
― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― dancefloor (+dancefloor), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― david jones (deadbeat), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)