Thieves steal a 200 TON BRIDGE WTF

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#21 February 05, 2008, 01:16:20 am

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Quote from: angry black man on February 05, 2008, 01:15:27 am

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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#22 February 05, 2008, 01:34:46 am

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Quote from: Kaempfer on February 05, 2008, 12:28:58 am

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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#23 February 05, 2008, 01:37:19 am

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

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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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#24 February 05, 2008, 01:48:10 am

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Quote from: Wash Cycle on February 05, 2008, 01:37:19 am

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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#25 February 05, 2008, 01:48:58 am

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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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#26 February 05, 2008, 07:09:18 am

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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.

Quote from: Catslacks on February 05, 2008, 01:10:29 am

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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#27 February 05, 2008, 10:26:22 am

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This is actually really badass. Stealing a bridge. Cool.

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#28 February 05, 2008, 11:41:25 am

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Quote from: PandaBear on February 05, 2008, 07:09:18 am

here in america we do it the simple way by digging up telephone wires.

steel is good but the moneymaker is copper

Quote from: Aten on February 05, 2008, 12:41:06 am

Over here, people dig up bigass telecommunications cables to sell the copper inside.

wow. Even the U.S isnt safe :\

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#29 February 05, 2008, 02:48:48 pm

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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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#30 February 05, 2008, 06:46:29 pm

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oh yeah baby. One ton at a tiiiiime

UNF UNF UNF!!!!!

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#31 February 05, 2008, 06:58:53 pm

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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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#32 February 05, 2008, 09:15:22 pm

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Quote from: #1 Dad on February 05, 2008, 01:34:46 am

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".

Quote from: Moriason on February 05, 2008, 02:48:48 pm

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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#33 February 05, 2008, 10:10:28 pm

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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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#34 February 06, 2008, 02:33:53 am

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Quote from: Ash on February 04, 2008, 07:17:43 pm

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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#35 February 06, 2008, 03:25:11 am

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Quote from: thecatamites on February 05, 2008, 06:58:53 pm

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

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#36 February 07, 2008, 04:17:24 pm

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Quote from: PandaBear on February 04, 2008, 06:19:35 pm

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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#37 February 07, 2008, 07:10:21 pm

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Quote from: fatty on February 04, 2008, 06:14:25 pm

In soviet Russia, bridge steals you

God I loled so hard.

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#38 February 08, 2008, 05:49:26 am

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Quote from: dragonheartman on February 07, 2008, 07:10:21 pm

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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#39 February 08, 2008, 10:33:33 am

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Quote from: Kaempfer on February 08, 2008, 05:49:26 am

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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#40 February 08, 2008, 03:45:30 pm

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In Soviet Russia, Kaempfer has a beard YOU!!.

This is still a 200 ton bridge that is HEAVY doods.

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