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EARTHDATE: January 27, 2008

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REAL LIFE NEWS: MINI CRIMINAL OF THE YEAR

by Hazed

By contrast to the Dumb Crim of the Year stories I have been bringing you lately, here's one that shows criminals acting in a rather ingenious way. A gang of thieves is using Trojan Horse tactics to smuggle somebody very small into the luggage compartments on Swedish buses, from where he/she/it can ransack the other bags.

The coach operator Swebus, which operates coach services across Sweden, says that thieves are believed to be carrying out the crimes by smuggling a "short person" into the luggage compartments inside a large hockey equipment bag. They don't know if the short person is a child or a very small adult. They plan to install video surveillance cameras in order to combat this quite ingenious scheme.

One assumes that the mini criminal in question does not suffer from claustrophia!


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