Action Thieves steal a 200 TON BRIDGE WTF (Read 1058 times)

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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


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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?

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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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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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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?


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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.