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| Caribbean-Latin America | |
| Bus full of police robbed | |
| 2004-09-17 | |
| Forty-six Brazilian policemen traveling to a sports competition were caught with their guard down this week when four Brazilian thieves robbed the bus carrying them to the event. The bus with 46 unarmed policemen from northeastern Paraiba state was headed to the city of Salvador in Bahia when two cars with armed robbers forced them to stop on the country's main interstate highway on Tuesday. "The robbers took their cameras, cellular phones, wallets and even the sports uniforms and sneakers," a police spokesman said. The suspects, who escaped, apparently did not know the bus was full of police when they stopped it, he said. "We are looking for them, but I cannot say there's any particular ardor here due to the fact that policemen have been robbed."
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Barbara, This wasn't in America. |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2004-09-17 9:10:34 PM |
| #5 Even if they were off duty, why were they unarmed? Do they think that any criminals out to get them will try it only when the cops are on duty? U.S. cops carry their guns all the time, on duty or off. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-17 6:26:11 PM |
| #4 I knew a Chicago cop who told me a goof tried to rob a bar he didn't know was a police hangout. Everybody in the bar had a gun and he was quickly subdued. Later, the writers of Hill Street Blues used the incident in an episode. |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-09-17 4:29:03 PM |
| #3 The East Division (Precinct) (Long Beach, CA) is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM
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| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-17 4:15:16 PM |
| #2 The criminals made off with an undisclosed amount of donuts and coffee. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-09-17 4:11:18 PM |
#1  Hello..hello..why is there a busy signal? Wait a minute we ARE the cops! We wuz robbed! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-17 2:06:23 PM |