Posted on 01/23/2008 5:49:12 AM PST by Stoat
Little person ... a dwarf
A GANG of crooks is robbing long-distance coaches by smuggling dwarves into their holds inside sports bags.
Once inside the buses the tiny thieves slip out from their hiding place to rifle through the belongings of travellers above them.
They then take their loot back to their hiding place and wait to be collected by another gang member when the coach reaches its destination.
The gang has stolen thousands of pounds in cash, gems and other valuables over the past several months.
Swebus, which operates coach services across Sweden, confirmed the losses.
“We think it is a short, young person, dwarves or perhaps children,” said Ingvar Ryggasjo, sales manager for Swebus.
“We are taking extra security measures and are thinking of installing video surveillance cameras.”
He said on one occasion a light-fingered little person was smuggled aboard a bus in a hockey bag.
One woman reported seeing two men squeezing the large, heavy bag into the luggage space under the bus. After arriving she found a camera, purse and other items missing.
Police are quizzing “people of limited stature” with criminal records, according to a spokesman in Stockholm.
LMAO
Hopefully he will be forced to spend quite a bit of time in a very cold and damp Swedish jail.
Not to be confused with people of unlimited stature.
Or people of an angular stature, who tend to walk in circles. :-)
I believe that I know of a single stoatsock that would do the job.....I think that it's quivering in a corner somewhere.......
He's off playing chess with Death, unaware that we are in desperate need of even more profoundly and crushingly depressing black and white movies, cast with actors who rarely smile because the film set caterer brings only lutefisk.
Small in stature but monstrous in ego and guile.
Well, his films were very educational to me. I learned how to say “Idiot” in Swedish.
It’s “Idi-oot!”
I’m not sure I was clear, I wasn’t referring to the thieves as cockroaches..it really was the way I read it. Totally coincidence, and I meant no offense to dwarves/little people. In hindsight, I could see that what I wrote could be taken as sarcasm. My apologies...
No need to apologize, you were entirely clear and there wasn't anything wrong with what you said. Similarly, I was referring to your humorous misreading as being unintentionally spot-on, and not in any way a reference to their size but to their morals or ( lack thereof).
I would have been delighted to refer to the dwarves' handlers / accomplices as 'cockroaches' as well, regardless of their size.
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