How do you steal a bridge?
There’s one item in today’s list of items stolen from the Ministry of Defence that has really caught my eye: a bridge.
Not the easiest of things to steal, you might have thought.
Nor the easiest of stolen objects to then make use of.
(Unless, boring, boring it’s a pontoon bridge and was stolen for its scrap metal value.)
But looking into how you might steal a bridge (and researching a blog post is the excuse I’m giving any law enforcement officials who coming asking why my search trails are full of queries about how to break the law), I’ve been surprised about how often bridges get stolen.
Bridge thefts include:
- A 4 tonne railway bridge in the Czech town of Cheb
- An 11.5m long bridge in Khabarovsk, Russia
- A £25,000 bridge in Selby
- Part of a canal bridge in Rochdale
- A 13m long bridge in Mostar, Bosnia
But as we don’t, I’m off to start a campaign to standardise the units used in describing stolen bridges. We can’t be having this mixing up of weights, lengths and costs. Standard units for comparable reporting please.
Don’t know much about stealing bridges, but this local story always amuses me
It’s about 2 and a bit miles away from Jennie’s house.
Ha, that’s a fantastic case!