Bobruisk thieves stole a water tower

Hunters for scrap metal was cut and stole a water tower in the Bobruisk district of the Mogilev region of Belarus, the website of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate reports.

According to him, previously convicted of theft, a resident of the village of Vishnevka, along with a non -thoughtful comrade, arrived on a minibus to the village of Domanovo, where they had previously noticed a invalid metal water tower. The thieves cut her into fragments with the help of a grinder and an autogen, plunged into a car and retreated.

However, the disappearance of a bulky structure was quickly noticed by local authorities, and soon the police found the abductors. True, part of the fragments of the tower of the thieves have already managed to sell. What they did not have time to sell, employees of the Bobruisk District Department of Internal Affairs found in the same minibus.

The cost of a stolen tower was estimated at 8.5 million Belarusian rubles (just over a thousand US dollars). And her abductors are now facing up to four years in prison.

Old ownerless water towers often become the object of attention of scrap metal hunters. A month ago, in the village of Island of the Pruzhansky district of the Brest region, two men tried to steal a three -ton water tower. However, they were prevented by the owner of the invalid farm, on the territory of which the facility was located, the Gomel portal "Strong News" writes.

Such cases are not uncommon in Russia. So, at the end of 2003 - early 2004, a series of thefts of water towers was recorded in the Novgorod and Kursk regions in order to pass them into scrap metal.

And in July 2002, in Georgia, six residents of the Gardaban district managed to steal a whole metal bridge weighing 25 tons in one night, connecting the cities of Rustavi and Gardabani. For the operation, criminals involved heavy equipment, with the help of which parts of the dismantled bridge were transported to scrap metal points. Two abductors managed to detain.

Also, from such abductions, one can recall the theft of anchor from the Kazan River College in July 2001. Unknown people stole one of two anchors adorning the central entrance of the educational institution. True, he weighed just a little more than a ton.