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| A Shining Example of Albanian Public Education: Dynamic dodos fumble FedEx theft |
| 2007-12-22 |
| Bungling crooks hijacked a FedEx truck filled with Christmas packages Friday - but left empty-handed because they couldn't figure out how to open containers holding $1 million in merchandise, police said. All the valuables were still in the 18-wheeler when police recovered it on a desolate Brooklyn street early Friday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. In a bizarre twist, the failed robbers gave the kidnapped driver $60 after freeing him - offering no explanation for the apparent tip, a police source said. The FedEx driver, Robert McGary, 47, told police he was driven around for three hours in the SUV and the robbers even stopped at a fast-food drive-thru window. The hijackers' plan was thwarted by their own stupidity when they were unable to detach the six large cargo containers from the floor of the truck. McGary told investigators he believes his captors were Albanian because of their accents and the conversation he overheard, Kelly said. Cops found the abandoned truck about 5:30 a.m. at the corner of India and West Sts. in Greenpoint. Investigators were reviewing its inventory last night. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #5 Look at the Forgotten NY web site, AA. Here too. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-12-22 23:01 |
| #4 The comments on that site are very enlightening. According to them, you'd have to take the containers (weighing thousands of pounds) off the truck before they could be opened (their doors face the sides of the truck, not the rear). Might need a special forklift or other type of equipment, too. So their stupidity lay mainly in not realizing that would happen. I would think there wouldn't be much percentage in heisting a large, general cargo like this, even if the packages were just piled randomly in the truck. You'd get fruitcakes, clothes, books, other stuff it wouldn't be worth your while to unload. But I guess they're not petty crooks because they were the brightest bulbs on the string. I always figure that if our Christmas presents are stolen, the thieves are in for one hell of a disappointment. Robert Rich CDs and books about the Age of Sail aren't going to bring very much down at Ye Olde Fence. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-12-22 13:18 |
| #3 That would not happen to many long haul truckers. The hijackers would be facing the business end of a shotgun. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-12-22 12:43 |
| #2 Brooklyn: just north of Williamsburg, just south of Queens. |
| Posted by: JSU 2007-12-22 12:27 |
| #1 Where is Greenpoint? |
| Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839 2007-12-22 11:09 |