I heard of people stealing copper wiring from the street, but this is quite ridiculous. What’s next? Stealing railroad tracks?
Russian police hunt for thieves who stole a 200-tonne metal bridge – dailymail.co.uk: Russian police are hunting scrap metal thieves who stole a 200-tonne metal bridge in a night-time raid.
The bridge in Khabarovsk in eastern Russia vanished overnight and was part of the only road leading to a local heating plant.
Now staff at the plant have to find alternative routes to work.
was part of the only road leading to a local heating plant. Now staff at the plant have to find alternative routes to work.
Yet another example of careless writing – either it was the only road or there’s an alternative. The two possibilities are mutually exclusive.
@Peter
Your standards are to high. You shouldn’t expect a journalist to know logic, grammar or spelling. Those kind of skills are for editors. So really you should be blaming the editor.
When it comes to criminality, Russians are the undisputed masters.
#2 Improbus
I prefer to think that out of logic, grammar and spelling you can tow of them but not all three.
P.S. I prefer logic and grammar.
I also bet there was a large quantity of vodka involved. lol
Pretty good time warp, too. “Soviet Russia”? What’s next? The Dolphins win the Super Bowl?
We had people stealing bridge parts from the country side here in Oregon, trying to take it to scrap yards for meth money.
the only road leading to a local heating plant.
Now staff at the plant have to find alternative routes to work.
Merriam-Webster: 1 a: a traveled way : highway b: a means of access : channel
A route is NOT necessarily a road, as anyone who has walked a ‘route’ in a forest knows.
Yeah, it’s sloppy, but the complaints are ‘what the meaning of am, am’.
J/P=?
you people are being too literal on this. I never thought it would be possible to actually steal a bridge, like no one could hear it, get real. And to Improbus there are three forms of the word “to.” There is to which means to do something, two which is a number, and too which means as well as or also. Talk about editing, perhaps you should consider hiring one and peter was correct, it is the writer’s mistake.
sounds like this power plant is in the middle of nowhere…by the looks of the photo it seems so…
so one could easily steal a bridge, bet this bridge wasnt in good shape either, making it wasier to steal too.. might have been doing a favor to those that have to cross it… wonder if any of those that cross it complained about the bridge being bad, and wanted to get it replaced???? hhmmm no wonder it got “stolen”…. 🙂
In Hungary a whole beach was stolen. That makes the disappearance of a bridge a petty crime.
I heard they caught them because they were on the wrong side of the river when they stole the bridge and couldn’t get home.
Too bad Sergeant Fred Colon wasn’t on duty at the time.
Those “U” channels on this side look like aluminum.
“200 tonnes”? Egads.
Here, in Honduras, there are frequent scandals about people stealing rails.
There is a lot of metal theft that goes on here in the US also. The obvious place to stop it is at the scrap metal dealers who are paying for it.
I don’t believe for a minute that these places don’t know that they are buying stolen metal.
Well, all we can be sure of is some Russian trolls are now homeless…
#6 keane-o – “Pretty good time warp, too. “Soviet Russia”
Like Communist China, Xerox copiers…While we are all splitting hairs.
If this was true it would be quite an thing to pull off. Even if the metal was laying around 200 tons is quite a lot to load and move in a single night much less a bridge than needed disassembly. There is all the equipment and skilled workers as well.
Perhaps this was simply a government screw up. Perhaps there was another bridge that needed scrapping and due to a ‘typski’ they got the wrong bridge. 😉
Cheers
You mean the Russians weren’t cheating at cards?
who gives a damn about spelling and grammar. the fact that a collective of people hauled off a 200 tonne bridge in a single night is what we should be talking about. that’s a lot of shit to be making off with. i’d hope for all the work they got paid well. XD