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The days of casually crossing a creek are over if you live in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in western Turkey. Which maybe you don’t. But the point is that someone stole a 22-tonne, 82-foot-long bridge from there. It’s just gone.
Police suspect that the bridge was cut into sections and removed on a truck for scrap metal. Its estimated value is about £8,000. Villagers use the bridge to access their orchards, and a resident, Mustafa Karakaş told Today’s Zaman that, “Now we have to take our socks off and cross the creek.”
The weirdest part of the theft may be that it’s not the first time a bridge has been stolen in recent memory. Way to maintain the gall, thieves of the world. [Today's Zaman]
Image Credit: FLariviere/Shutterstock
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Old news. This was posted Oct 2011.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/how-does-an-entire-bridge-go-missing/
Ah. Ok, ok, read the whole thing first. I recognised the pic and story. Doh!!
It was my first thought as well. You think they could have sprung for a new picture of a bridge.
Yeah, it’s a different bridge, as we mention in the last paragraph (we used the same picture though) http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/how-does-an-entire-bridge-go-missing/
Gizmodo please use either metric to imperial measurements; not both. First stolen bridge is 15-metre-long this one is 82-foot-long !! WTF.
Clearly its not the same bridge, but which is bigger?
‘Clearly its not the same bridge, but which is bigger?’
FIGHT!!!!!
Bloody Harry Hill’s TV Burp.
The first bridge.
“the scrap metal is estimated to be £64,000.”
This bridge’s scrap value was £8,000. I know the value of steel may very slightly but not by that much.
wow – £8000 for scrap
i hope if they catch whoever did it they punish them as if they’d stolen £800,000 (or whatever the cost of a new bridge is)