Monday, November 28, 2011
Oh, grandmother, what an empty fuel tank your car has!
When you think of grandmothers you probably envision a kindly elderly woman sat on a plump sofa, with fluffy slippers, knitting something. Maybe with a cat or two next to her.
When you think of thieves you probably envision people sneaking about silently dressed in dark clothes. Well this story is about two grandmothers, but un-stereotypically they are both thieves, and un-stereotypical thieves at that.
Stealing £400 of alcohol at an ASDA in Chadderton on the outskirts of Manchester, these women piled the loot from their trolley into their car but didn’t make a very swift getaway.
This is mainly due to the fact they’d forgotten that for a car to work, it needs petrol.
A fundamental mistake really.
Furthermore, they took so much alcohol that they struggled to close the vehicle’s boot, had to ask a passer by to help them push the car to ASDA’s own petrol station to fill up, were filmed committing their crime on several different CCTV cameras, and were stupid enough to try their stunt again at another supermarket in the area later that day.
You’ll be thankful to know that these two thieving grandmothers were caught.
Photo © Sean McEntee via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: alcohol, ASDA, boot, car, CCTV, Chadderton, crime, grandmother, petrol, steal, thieves
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posted by Fuse @ 12:44 AM 
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