Post by Matt on Oct 21, 2007 10:51:38 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Cheese thief nabbed in cement mixer getaway [/glow]
Thu Oct 18, 11:07 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief caught shoplifting a packet of cheese from a supermarket in Germany tried to make his getaway in a cement mixer, but he was quickly nabbed by police.
"He was out on the job and suddenly got hungry, as honest workers sometimes do," said police spokesman in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Thursday.
When a shop detective in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna caught the man stealing a 2.79 euro (1.95 pounds) packet of processed cheese, the 55-year-old broke free and leapt into his cement mixing truck outside, police said.
The shop alerted police, who arrested the man when he stopped his getaway vehicle at a red light a few hundred metres away.
Thu Oct 18, 11:07 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A thief caught shoplifting a packet of cheese from a supermarket in Germany tried to make his getaway in a cement mixer, but he was quickly nabbed by police.
"He was out on the job and suddenly got hungry, as honest workers sometimes do," said police spokesman in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Thursday.
When a shop detective in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna caught the man stealing a 2.79 euro (1.95 pounds) packet of processed cheese, the 55-year-old broke free and leapt into his cement mixing truck outside, police said.
The shop alerted police, who arrested the man when he stopped his getaway vehicle at a red light a few hundred metres away.
