Posted on 03/02/2005 6:38:33 AM PST by kingattax
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A Norwegian family's swimming pool wasn't just bolted down. It was in the ground. But that didn't stop a band of determined thieves.
When the Nicolaysen family visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago.
"This can't be, we thought," Arild Nicolaysen told state radio network NRK on Monday. "We didn't think it was possible. No one can steal a swimming pool."
Evidently, someone did.
At some point since early November, when the family closed up the cabin for the winter, their five-metre-diameter pool and all its equipment was uprooted and stolen.
"It must have been a terrible job to disassemble such a big pool," Brit Nicolaysen said. "There is a steel lining all the way around, plus there is a plastic liner and then there was a skimming system, a filter system and a lot of big hoses, and pipes."
Police said they had never heard anything like it. They suspected the pool was taken for someone's private use.
It might have been taken by a drunk moose known for biting female siblings.
Amazing, simply amazing. The thief deserves some sort of thief hall of fame award.
These thieves really went off the deep end.
I guess! Would be kinda hard to fence, or get into pawn shop.
Well, OTOH, the UN stole Yellowstone Park.....
Could China and/or David Copperfield steal the Grand Canyon too?
LOL
A swimming pool in Norway...what do they do, ice skate on it nine months out of the year? ;)
nude ice fishing
Too funny.............
its ok...im under 18
No big loss. How many days in a year does it get warm enough to swim in an out door pool in Norway, anyway? One, two, maybe three with global warming? Even then the water would be so cold you would have to wear a fleece lined wet suit.
Under 18? Quick! rush out and kill a few dozen people, before the window of opportunity closes. (sarcasm.....definately sarcasm)
theres a guy in Norway even lonelier than the maytag repairman-----the swimming pool maintenance guy.
Duh, they's already on the case...;-)
We were wrong - they took the whole trees - roots and all.
LOL! THey should become pen pals.
Picking up apples under trees planted by the road can give one an apple pie per season-pulling the trees up by the roots and taking them home will give one apple pies for life.
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