The police has detained 2 men accused of stealing from passengers of a bus that connected the Girona Airport with Barcelona. The method of the theft was ingenious to say the least, with which one of them travelled in the luggage-hold under the floor of the bus, inside a large suitcase. During the 90 minutes of the journey to the 1st stop the guy in the suitcase would come out, steal whatever valuable objects, and his accomplice would take him out once again inside the suitcase with the loot.
The police had received complains during the last few weeks of the mysteriously disappeared belongs from inside suitcases during bus journeys from Airport to city stops. Naturally nobody thought to suspect suitcases and the luggage-hold stores only luggage, not manned and nobody could get in during the journey.
It was only by chance that on the 3rd of this month a passenger who travelled on a bus from the airport, noticed a man talking to a suitcase and informed the police. The lawman expected to discover a child but found a full grown man of near 1,8 metre inside the suitcase of 90 x 50 centimetres, like a contortionist of a circus. His excuse at first had been that he had no money for the bus fare, but in his hand was a mobile, and he was equipped with a shoulder bag, a head-lantern, a sharp object to open zips or locks. He and his partner were arrested.
There had been several more such denounce in recent months. They take mainly portable PC's, GPS, cameras, and any smallish but valuable objects, and operated in several different buses, but never more than only once in a couple of weeks in the same bus route, to eliminate the chance of being discovered.
One of them could eventually go back to the circus, or become a lock-smith; the other would have to learn a trade first, possibly in prison.
Tags: contortionist, bustheft
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