The mystery of the 40-ton bridge suddenly being stolen overnight!

Local police said this was the biggest theft they had ever encountered in their career. This 17 meter long bridge was built in 2000.

The police said that after investigating, they discovered that on November 3, 2021, someone discovered that the deck on the bridge had disappeared, leaving only the steel frame structure. And on November 11, the entire structure disappeared.

After investigation, the police said that although the bridge is large, it is actually built like Lego , steel materials are connected and fixed with bolts, etc., so dismantling a bridge is not difficult. The bridge thief apparently discovered this and even planned a premeditated heist.

The thieves first cleared the bushes around the bridge, then removed the bridge deck and structure in batches. According to the truck tracks left at the scene, the police actually arrested the 63-year-old man who stole the bridge. He hired a crane to steal the bridge and move it to another place.

However, this is not the only bridge theft in the world, this situation occurs all over the world. In 2022, a group of workers were discovered in India dismantling a bridge. However, no local people found it strange and thought this was a normal demolition.

It was later discovered that these "workers" were actually thieves . After dismantling the bridge, they sold the dismantled metal pieces to a recycling place. Compared to the "disappearance in the night" cases mentioned above, this is a "daylight robbery" case.

After removing the bridge, the thieves sold the dismantled metal pieces to a recycling place.

In 2011, a 40-ton bridge in Pennsylvania, USA, was stolen and metal was found cut from the bridge's support pillars. In 2012, a thief in the Czech Republic stole a 10-ton steel pedestrian bridge and used a crane to dismantle parts of the bridge and rails. In an inaccessible area of ​​Russia, a thief stole a long section of a steel bridge, leaving behind only the piers. In 2020, the theft of cement pavement and bridges also occurred in Danyang, Jiangsu, China, the thieves even hired people to transport concrete pavement 18 times.