A man has been arrested in Spain after curling up inside a large suitcase that was placed in an airport bus cargo bay and sneaking out to steal from other people’s luggage.
A police official in the north-eastern Catalonia region said on Thursday that the man arrested last week was very thin.
Also arrested was an accomplice who placed the contortionist thief inside the cargo hold of a bus running from Girona airport to Barcelona, boarded the bus and then retrieved him at the end of the line.
During the 60-mile (100km) ride, the thief would slip out of the suitcase and use a sharp object to pick locks or open zips to steal from bags. Police were alerted by bus passengers who reported items stolen from their baggage.
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If he hadn’t been thin would they just have used a bigger case : )
HAHAHAHA! Just got a funny scene in my head. Can imagine this being a funny cartoon sketch, lol!
I read that as “creationist”, not “contortionist”….
Reminds me of the story of the Lang Pack.
http://www.lindastratmann.com/LongPack.html
times are tuf & thieves hafta be pretty creative…
Ragdoll?!
Oh man, can you imagine what would have happened if it was an airplane? On the other hand, if the guy wanted to fly around the world, he wouldn’t have to pay hefty ticket fees.
wait – If he was planning on hiding himself in a suitcase, where was he hiding the stolen goods? *shudder*
Tongue in Cheek:
can you get backstage passes to your gigs?
If so, how do I go about that?
Hide in your luggage or what?
No sh*t, I had my bag stolen from a bus on the way to Girona airport by a pair of junkies, they made the driver stop at an unscheduled stop, he opened the hold door and they legged it in to a waiting car. Obviously that wasn’t working out for them anymore and the got the brains of the operation to think up something better
Sounds like an open and shut case to me.