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Czech police wonder where bridge has gone
Metro | AFP ^
| 2/19/08
Posted on 02/20/2008 5:32:43 PM PST by LibWhacker
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from the border town of Cheb.
The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm when, ever alert, they noticed that the bridge wasn't there any more.
The bridge was on a disused stretch of line just outside Cheb.
Martina Hruskova, a spokeswoman for the Czech police, commented to AFP: 'We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value.' Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid.
'It is the first time we have dealt with this type of theft,' she added.
Of course, it's not the first time some light-fingered bridge enthusiast has made off with a bridge. At least two bridges have been nicked in Russia in the past six months, and a pair of bridge thieves appropriated two Macedonian bridges last February.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridge; czech; missing; thieves
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To: LibWhacker
Best news story of the day!!!!!roflmao.
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:33:36 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:34:26 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: LibWhacker
Have they looked in the classifieds Bridge 4 sale?
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:38:49 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:39:22 PM PST
by
Dysart
To: rdl6989
Ask Ted Kennedy. He has a thing about bridges.
To: LibWhacker
I remember once I was busted on I-81 with a highway bridge in the car. I told the cop, “Yo! It’s for personal use!”, but he didn’t buy it...
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:41:52 PM PST
by
gridlock
(Proud McCain Supporter since February 7, 2008.)
To: Max Friedman
Hey, they stole...
my bridge, too!
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:44:44 PM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: LibWhacker
Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid. The love that dare not speak its name... suspensiphilia.
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:48:24 PM PST
by
FR Class of 1998
(the long term solution to corruption is to starve the government of money)
To: Bender2
LOL...
Forget the bridge... That's one ugly never mind...
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:53:30 PM PST
by
ChristianDefender
(I Hear, I Forget. I See, I Remember. I Do, I Understand.)
To: Bender2
Sorry that I can’t see the humor in some poor guy who obviously had a rough life. Looks like he’s got a sense of humor anyway. Sorry for you.
To: LibWhacker
Truly a bridge to ... nowhere ...
To: mad_as_he$$
And we thought our Border Patrol was bad?
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posted on
02/20/2008 5:57:02 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
To: LibWhacker
"I can pick up 150 feet of bridge anywhere"
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:01:27 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
To: gridlock
A cop who wouldn’t “buy a bridge”? Musta been one of the smarter ones.
To: LibWhacker
... how do you steal a bridge?
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:05:01 PM PST
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: ItisaReligionofPeace
Re:
Sorry that I can’t see the humor in some poor guy who obviously had a rough life. Looks like he’s got a sense of humor anyway. Sorry for you. Yes, he seems to have a sense of humor. Too bad... 
you don't seems to have one. Gadzooks! Lighten up, you seem duller than the Potentate of the Tehran Thought Police!
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:06:38 PM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Domandred
Re:
... how do you steal a bridge? First... 
tell the mark to open wide!
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:08:52 PM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: LibWhacker
4 Tons is a tiny bridge. 4 Tonne, I’m not sure about.
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:13:08 PM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: LibWhacker
Serial bridge bandits are such a nuisance. I hate it when this happens.
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posted on
02/20/2008 6:23:44 PM PST
by
rdl6989
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