6 Amazing Things to Steal

[Feanor]

Disclaimer: don't try this unless you're Russian. Or have a death wish.

Where's the bridge? The 7 Biggest Things Ever Stolen | Cracked.com

Seriously though, I have to try the crowbar->tank hatch trick.

 

[Lucasnz]

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[Waylander]

Great find and well written, too. In nearly sprayed my keyboard while reading the descriptions.

Tanks are always easy to steal. Ours are also only locked with a padlock and you only need a screwdriver to start one.
Not all that hard. And easy to drive, too, apart from stifling the engine everytime you drive around a turn.
Reminds me of the guy in Germany who stole a wheeled Fox APC to impress his ex-girlfriend and win her back...
I can only imagine him trying to use the local McDrive with it.

 

[T.C.P]

Its a pity the guy was shot dead. After his stunt he deserved the right to tell this story to his grand kids.

 

[Waylander]

That he stole a tank, destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of private and public property and even tried to drive over cars with people in them?
I don't think this is a story I would like to tell my kids and grandkids...

 

[T.C.P]

That he stole a tank, destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of private and public property and even tried to drive over cars with people in them?
I don't think this is a story I would like to tell my kids and grandkids...

If you leave out the part, about people still being inside the cars he tried to crush, the rest is still pretty cool...I think.. but then again I am a bit of a socio path:rolling

 

[Feanor]

I liked the bridge one the most. "Serial bridge thieves".

 

[kato]

Reminds me of the guy in Germany who stole a wheeled Fox APC to impress his ex-girlfriend and win her back...

Last guy that stole an (actual) tank in Germany jumped off a bridge. With the tank. He drowned.

Mannheim, 1982. Was a US soldier running amok in an M60A3. With a full combat load (!) of 66 rounds that he never got to fire off. Rammed a tram (four people injured), drove over ten cars and a couple trees and rammed a couple buildings in a shopping area.

Where's the bridge? The 7 Biggest Things Ever Stolen | Cracked.com

It's missing some really big stuff.

Like the 5 km unused railway tracks that were stolen in Germany five years ago. Total weight 1,000 tons. The thieves forged some papers and hired a local company to demolish the railway and deliver it to two scrap metal dealers that paid them about €200,000 for it.

 

[Spetsznaz]

I was really bought of buy then, "serial bridge stealers"

I mean, how did they even do it? Gota admit its pretty badass

 

[bdcastle2002]

who the hell would want to steal a bridge?? unless it was some kind of practical joke and they put it back the next day with no one realising...

 

[Lucasnz]

Someone in New Zealand stole a house a few years back. The owner found the new owner living in it about 4 years later in another town.

 

[Feanor]

Someone in New Zealand stole a house a few years back. The owner found the new owner living in it about 4 years later in another town.

How'd they move it? Dissasemble it brick by brick? Or did they have the powers of levitation?

EDIT: Wait, let me guess, houses in Australia are made out of Elmers glue and woodshavings, just like here in Cali?

 

[Lucasnz]

How'd they move it? Dissasemble it brick by brick? Or did they have the powers of levitation?

EDIT: Wait, let me guess, houses in Australia are made out of Elmers glue and woodshavings, just like here in Cali?

In NZ they jack the house of its foundations (the older houses tend to be on raised foundations, the newer houses are concrete slab) and load it on a truck a shift it in the middle of the night. If its too big they chop it down the middle, do two shifts and join them back up on the new site (I have no idea how). Virtually all the ones I've seen moved are wooden plank clad. Takes the whole road and the power lines raised or dropped.

 

[Feanor]

In NZ they jack the house of its foundations (the older houses tend to be on raised foundations, the newer houses are concrete slab) and load it on a truck a shift it in the middle of the night. If its too big they chop it down the middle, do two shifts and join them back up on the new site (I have no idea how). Virtually all the ones I've seen moved are wooden plank clad. Takes the whole road and the power lines raised or dropped.

Wow. Impressive.