Posted on 09/27/2002 9:04:56 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - With vacuum cleaner in hand - and an extension cord for good measure - a thief made off with more than $12,800 in jewelry. Police in Kolding, Denmark, about 145 miles west of the capital, Copenhagen, said Wednesday that the thief drilled a small hole in the window of Lykke's Gold and Silver store, stuck in the tip of the vacuum's hose, and sucked out several items, including rings, necklaces and earrings. "We discovered it when we came to work in the morning," Kirsten Lykke Salling, the store's owner, said Friday. "It was terrible, but at the same time funny because who would have thought of doing it that way?"
Police said the burglar used a power socket at a nearby construction site for the electricity. They found the vacuum cleaner abandoned by the shop, but empty. "The thief slipped in the extremity of the vacuum cleaner through the window and therefore the alarm didn't go off when he vacuumed the displayed jewelry," said Carsten Thostrup, a Kolding police officer.
No one has been arrested, he said.
Portability, ya know!
It has occurred to others.
The owner of the "Takin' Care of Business" cleaning service reportedly did first-class work on his job at Richmond International Airport in Virginia. As it turns out, he was cleaning up in more ways than one. The man managed to steal several thousand dollars from a United Airlines drop safe with a little help from....his vacuum cleaner. Richmond police say the man used the vacuum's hose to suck up cash, checks, and credit card receipts from the narrow drop slot of the safe during his nightly rounds. When the deposits began disappearing, bewildered airport authorities set up a surveillance camera near the safe, and managed to videotape the cleaning man in the act of "takin' care of business."---From Dumb Crook News.
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