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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Weird news - Stealing a bridge in Russia

Movies sometimes show robbers making spectacular robberies, right under the nose of the authorities. It can be by in older times by robbing trains that was carrying cash or gold, or in more recent times by drilling into vaults, or in even more recent times by hacking into accounts or stealing bearer bonds that are untraceable, and so on. At the same time, another time of stealing is going on from time immemorial - the stealing of the items that make up modern infrastructure. Thieves steal the copper wires that make up communication networks, or steal metals from different locations, especially when the price of commodities has increased. However, stealing the metal from a bridge over a period of time until it totally vanishes seems very different (link to article):
The disappearance of a 56 tonne bridge in Russia's Arctic region has sparked a criminal investigation into the incident. According to Daily Mail, the 75-foot structure made up the central section of a dismantled bridge over the Umba river, in Russia's Murmansk region. In May, reports of the bridge's mysterious disappearance began to circulate on VK - a Russian social media platform. Pictures shared on a VK page on May 16 show a part of the bridge lying in water. Just ten days later, however, more pictures of the area surfaced on VK. These pictures showed no trace of the bridge, and even the debris in water had vanished. "It was taken away by unknowns. At the bottom, too, there are no large debris. Natural phenomena could not bring down the bridge," wrote the page where aerial shots of the bridge that disappeared where posted.

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