Thursday, February 18, 2010

Not what they had in mind . . .


It seems a deterrent to criminals became their target instead. The Austrian Times reports:

Thieves walked off with a life-sized statue of a policeman used to deter crooks at a shopping centre in Limburg, Germany.

The model - showing an officer about to pull his gun - was supposed to make thieves think twice before chancing their arm.

But crooks copped the 80lb statue as a trophy to show off their skills, say police.

"They clearly weren't fooled by it. We've got a real one down there now," said one officer.












A case of shutting the stable shopping-center door after the horse statue has gone?





Peter

1 comment:

  1. Too bad none of the bad guys had any art training: I'd have loved to have seen the cop statue replaced with a thief statue, heh.

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