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Discuss Czech pikeys show the way ...... in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by Nutstrangler Sure it wasn't the Sappers ? Nah there were no pie wrappers left behind...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nutstrangler View Post
    Sure it wasn't the Sappers ?
    Nah there were no pie wrappers left behind
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    They should have Czeched the paperwork...................I will get my coat.......
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    Feb 2008: The police in Cheb recently got more proof of the fact that it is possible to steal virtually anything. They were called out to investigate the disappearance of a railway bridge weighing four tonnes.

    The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm when, ever alert, they noticed that the bridge wasn't there any more.

    The bridge was on a disused stretch of line just outside Cheb.

    Martina Hruskova, a spokeswoman for the Czech police, commented to AFP: 'We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value.' Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid.

    'It is the first time we have dealt with this type of theft,' she added.

    Of course, it's not the first time some light-fingered bridge enthusiast has made off with a bridge. At least two bridges have been nicked in Russia in the past six months, and a pair of bridge thieves appropriated two Macedonian bridges last February.


    Nothing to show it was actually pikies. My theory on this is that it's a russian gang looking far and wide. Could be unemployed former steel erectors, or even sappers! Moving a high tonnage of steel quickly and easily takes some doing too. I imagine that a boat/barge/ship would have been used as it would be easier to spot it all moving on the road.
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    what colour is it please ?
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    What colour is it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheIronDuke View Post
    Anybody want to buy a bridge?
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    Quote Originally Posted by maguire View Post
    you have to give them credit for a bit more ambition and enterprise than the average pikey scumbag over here...
    Fucking hell, just think what our pikey's could achieve if they too could read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sirbhp View Post
    what colour is it please ?

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    Did a better job than the guys off Auf Wiedersehn Pet with the Middlesboro transporter bridge.

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