This help ya out a whole bunch, there, Bob? Anyway, it's in India.
Posted on 12/22/2002 10:37:42 AM PST by dighton
BELGAUM: In the olden days burglars would give prior intimation to the owners where they planned a theft. Though the owners took immense care, the thieves would invariably succeed in their mission.
Such burglaries have been reported in Belgaum city which has shocked the police as well as the forest department. A group of burglars cut six to eight bulky sandalwood trees in the garden of the local Lingaraj College, giving prior intimation to the college watchman that they would do so. The value of these tress is said to be more than Rs 2 lakh.
This incident has irked the local police and forest department. A group of 10 to 15 persons went to Lingaraj College at midnight two weeks ago and cut a tree after threatening the watchman. When the tree was being taken out from the premises, some students came out and objected.
The burglars threatened them too and said they would come back in 15 days to carry three more sandalwood trees in the premises.
Though it was reported to the police they ignored the complaint, college authorities said.
Meanwhile, the group came again to the college garden one midnight and cut all the three trees in the garden in front of the ladies’ hostel. This time they bolted the hostel rooms from outside and had cut the telephone wires.
When the girls raised an alarm, the group threatened to attack them. The girls kept shouting till some boys and a professor arrived. By then the gang had left with the sandalwood logs weighing several tonnes.
It is surprising how huge logs were transported from the college premises within minutes. The burglars are said to have gone towards Hindalaga, according to college source.
The college is located on the main road and any noise could be heard from the main road. How police vans which were on night rounds did not hear the shouts of the girls is a mystery.
Police sources revealed that sandalwood burglary in Belgaum and surrounding areas is rampant and the same gang is involved in it. The gang consisting of ten to fifteen youngsters also cut trees from the DC compound and from the house of a district official.
The trees are taken to Shinoli, a border town in Maharashtra which is known as the Industrial Centre of Maharashtra. Shinoli has several sandalwood factories where sandalwood oil and powder are manufactured. These trees were supplied to these factories, it is learnt. A source said that burglars cannot work without the connivance of the police and forest department. The same gang has also cut sandalwood trees from the protected area near Club Road and transported it to Shinoli.
This help ya out a whole bunch, there, Bob? Anyway, it's in India.
It's in India. Not Indiana.
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At least there wasn't any whiny excuse from their navigator about trying to find a shorter route to the Spice Islands....
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It had been a normal day of business, when a man wearing an official-looking arm-band had presented himself to the manager of the bank. He was from the Ministry of Health. An outbreak of typhus was feared, and he would be obliged if the manager would line up his staff in the court-yard so that he could administer the official antidote. The manager bowed and complied, and after everything had been locked up, the staff of fourteen assembled and listened carefully to the short lecture on health delivered by the man with the arm-band. ... He handed a glass to each person and advised them to swallow the mixture at one gulp as otherwise it might damage their teeth. “Now,” he had said, according to Dikko’s version. “All together! One. Two. Three!” And down went the honourable medicine and down fell the honourable local manager and staff of the Imperial Bank of Japan. The medicine had been neat cyanide.-- Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice.
No Shinoli! The equivalent of the Fahrenheit451 firecrews... I can just picture it - the local cops not hearing while axes and saws whine away....
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