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| Europe |
| Donkey cart in police pursuit |
| 2005-11-28 |
| The headline should be Greek Police Fail to Catch Up with Fleeing Donkey Cart. From correspondent in Patras, Greece POLICE were involved in a bizarre chase with a gang of thieves who escaped from the scene of the crime on a cart pulled by a donkey. Three thieves, aged between 13 and 15, raced away from the local hospital with a stolen safe tied to their cart. Police chased the gang through the town's narrow, winding streets for more than an hour. They were unable to overhaul the donkey and cart until it turned into a dead-end street. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #3 Don't see that in Foxes Breaking News L.A. chases. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-28 18:38 |
| #2 After a bit of thought, they could have gotten away by just dumping something too heavy for the cops to lift off the back of the cart. A log, or a big concrete block would do it, the cops would have to back down the narrow alley, and go around. Not too many years ago a bunch of bank robbers in a stolen car got away by pulling into an Apartment complex parking lot, stepping through a hedge and over a small culvert, and driving away in another car they had stashed (Parked) in the next apartment complex parking lot. The cops had to go about three miles to get to the other apartment complex entrance, and the crooks were long gone. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-11-28 10:21 |
| #1 I've been to Europe, while this seems to be taken as humor, the truth is that the ancient streets were built before the automobile was invented and were designed for foot traffic or only one donkey and )Narrow) cart wide, only very small cars can even get into these streets and there's no such thing as passing or two way traffic. Cops had no choice but to follow. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-11-28 09:17 |