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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: HL on February 04, 2008, 06:07:03 pm
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Russian police are hunting scrap metal thieves who stole a 200-tonne metal bridge in a night-time raid. The bridge in Khabarovsk in eastern Russia vanished overnight and was part of the only road leading to a local heating plant.
Now staff at the plant have to find alternative routes to work.
Staff at a heating plant were astonished when they discovered the bridge to work had been stolen
Bosses at the company said that the cost of replacing the bridge would be ten times the value of the scrap metal.
The bridge was made of four steel pipes half a metre in diameter and covered with steel plates.
The thieves worked at night when there was no one around, which allowed them to dismantle and remove the heavy construction without anyone noticing, a spokesman for the heating plant said.
Local workers arrived at the bridge in the morning to discover that the only direct route to work had disappeared.
The company estimates the bridge will cost over £20,000 to replace and will be made of reinforced concrete, instead of steel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=506748&in_page_id=1811
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU STEAL a 200 TON BRIDGE AND NO ONE NOTICES
jesus christ wtf
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In soviet Russia, bridge steals you
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haha, this is just like in "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" when the henchmen would steal a monument or a national park or something.
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haha holy shit i wonder if they are discworld fans
in the books there is one guard who always guards a bridge because, well, no one's going to try to steal a bridge, right?
bzzt wrong seargent colon
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That's insane... and embarrassing for whoever was nearby.
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The bridge was made of four steel pipes half a metre in diameter and covered with steel plates.
It sounded extremely plausible after I read this part. I mean, it's not like they went over the golden gate bridge with a helicopter and FLEW AWAY with it. It was probably a very small river, which would justify the rather lazy bridge I imagine this to be.
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Stop making things sound more epic than they are :(
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The Golden Gate Bridge, in comparison, is 887,000 tonnes, making this bridge about 4000 times smaller.
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haha, this is just like in "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" when the henchmen would steal a monument or a national park or something.
Oh dang this is what my friend and I were talking about at lunch when I told her about this article. Carmen has stolen the torch from the Statue of Liberty and in the theme song it says she stole the Mekong, as in, the BIG FUCKING INSANE RIVER.
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Lulzorz, I wonder how they got rid of the debris and shit. :fogetshifty:
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It was stolen by ninjas, that's why no one noticed
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"anything is possible now that scientists invented magic" - Marge Simpson
I think that describes what happened here :P
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"anything is possible now that scientists invented magic" - Marge Simpson
I think that describes what happened here :P
I was thinking something more like
"Let's take this bank back to our hideout and we'll break into it later"
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Can you imagine that? A bunch of workers going to their job and thinking "Um...Where did our bridge go?"
but yeah kinda makes me wonder if this was some sort of prank or if they actually needed that scrapped bridge for something
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I don't understand... :shocking:
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Did anybody click on the link? The picture represents a pretty tiny span. I mean, we have wooden footbridges that cover greater spans than that in a nearby ravine. I'm no master criminal, but me and my friends could steal that bridge in a single night. Admittedly, it's not made of steel, but still...
Anyways, fucking Russians, man. Who goes through all this trouble to steal like $3500 worth of steel?
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Stealing bridges?
Over here, people dig up bigass telecommunications cables to sell the copper inside. (Leading to hundreds of people without any phones)
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haha that's pretty bizarre this is the first time i've heard of a bridge theft :D
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So does anybody know who actually buys all these raw materials? Like is there some raw material black market I'm unaware of? Who do you sell a disassembled bridge to?
ebay it?
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I wonder how they're going to sell 200 tons of steel without anyone getting curious. Russian police force don't play around. If they catch a whiff of these guys there'll be fucking paramilitary breathing down their throats.
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I wonder how they're going to sell 200 tons of steel without anyone getting curious. Russian police force don't play around. If they catch a whiff of these guys there'll be fucking paramilitary breathing down their throats.
This reminds me of that time there was a school takeover and they brought in a tank.
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Did anybody click on the link? The picture represents a pretty tiny span. I mean, we have wooden footbridges that cover greater spans than that in a nearby ravine. I'm no master criminal, but me and my friends could steal that bridge in a single night. Admittedly, it's not made of steel, but still...
Anyways, fucking Russians, man. Who goes through all this trouble to steal like $3500 worth of steel?
Are you for real? Sure it's a tiny little bridge but it weighs a (200 to be exact) fuck-ton.
It would still take an assload of planning and manpower to get away with it AND not be noticed. I am sure in toronto if you tried stealing a footbridge you'd not get away with it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, a tabloid, first published in 1896 - Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun.
I noticed something fishy when all the sidebar story advertisements had to do with celebrity news
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
I noticed something fishy when all the sidebar story advertisements had to do with celebrity news
well yeah if this was an article about Jesus appearing on a shower curtain, your argument would make sense
but this is a (relatively) small bridge disappearing and it is not far-fetched to assume that a group of men struggling for money could have gone to such measures.
P.S. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071229/94678516.html - a different article dated Dec. 29, 2007 on a Russian news website. The bridge was a whopping 11.5 meters long.
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I think Russia should be more concerned about who is stealing their government rather than who is stealing their bridges.
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stealing 200 tons worth of shit isn't that small of a feat for what was probably just a group of meth addicts selling the scrap for drug money.
here in america we do it the simple way by digging up telephone wires.
So does anybody know who actually buys all these raw materials? Like is there some raw material black market I'm unaware of? Who do you sell a disassembled bridge to?
scrap yards buy used metals (steel is good but the moneymaker is copper) for pretty good prices. They've got their hands on 200 tons of steel, so they will probably just cut it up and sell it whenever they need some money.
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This is actually really badass. Stealing a bridge. Cool.
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here in america we do it the simple way by digging up telephone wires.
steel is good but the moneymaker is copper
Over here, people dig up bigass telecommunications cables to sell the copper inside.
wow. Even the U.S isnt safe :\
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This seemed like a big deal until I read they only took $20,000 worth, which really isn't THAT large an amount.
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oh yeah baby. One ton at a tiiiiime
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I'd love to see the local police chief's face when he heard about this... "Hello? Yes, this is Lieutenant Smirnoff... They stole a what?... Are you fucking shitting me?!"
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Are you for real? Sure it's a tiny little bridge but it weighs a (200 to be exact) fuck-ton.
It would still take an assload of planning and manpower to get away with it AND not be noticed. I am sure in toronto if you tried stealing a footbridge you'd not get away with it.
This didn't happen in a major city, it happened in the middle of nowhere on a route only used by certain people at certain hours. If I went up to my cottage with two medium-sized trucks (most contractors have these) we could probably show up at 6pm (after everyone had gone home) and disassemble a cottage and drive off before anyone noticed (or the sun was up, twelve hours later). And there is no proof that 200 tonnes wasn't an overestimation, anyways! Sure, it takes planning, but it falls well within the realm of "explainable".
This seemed like a big deal until I read they only took $20,000 worth, which really isn't THAT large an amount.
It's going to cost them 20000 pounds to put up the new bridge, and the guy said the scrap is only worth a tenth of that, so they actually stole less than $5000 worth of stuff.
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Guys, this is in the mail, I'm surprised they didn't try to blame aliens tbh.
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It sounded extremely plausible after I read this part. I mean, it's not like they went over the golden gate bridge with a helicopter and FLEW AWAY with it. It was probably a very small river, which would justify the rather lazy bridge I imagine this to be.
The mental image that accompanied this was enough to send me into giggle-fits.
I mean, it may not be a Golden Gate, but 200-tons is quite a lot to lift overnight.
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I'd love to see the local police chief's face when he heard about this... "Hello? Yes, this is Lieutenant Smirnoff... They stole a what?... Are you fucking shitting me?!"
I lol'd at that :fogetbackflip:
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haha, this is just like in "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" when the henchmen would steal a monument or a national park or something.
That is EXACTLY what crossed my mind when I read the title.
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In soviet Russia, bridge steals you
God I loled so hard.
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God I loled so hard.
Why? It doesn't even make sense. The joke "In Soviet Russia, TV watches you" makes perfect sense because it makes a fairly obvious reference to 1984 and the "big brother" idea. Another joke "In Soviet Russia, Red means go" also makes sense because Red is the colour of Soviet Communism and thus is meant to inspire work and progress rather then to denote stopping or ceasing, as it does in a traffic sense. These jokes are only funny if they make sense both ways or neither way. An example of the latter would be; "In Soviet Russia, chair eats you!".
I don't know why, usually I don't care about the lame jokes people tell, but "In Soviet Russia" jokes are a special case for me, because Soviet Russia is an endlessly deep well of hilarity and I don't like people clogging it up with shit, I guess.
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I don't know why, usually I don't care about the lame jokes people tell, but "In Soviet Russia" jokes are a special case for me, because Soviet Russia is an endlessly deep well of hilarity and I don't like people clogging it up with shit, I guess.
In Soviet Russia, well clog you!
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In Soviet Russia, Kaempfer has a beard YOU!!.
This is still a 200 ton bridge that is HEAVY doods.