The names have been changed to protect the innocent or near innocent. In eastern Europe there were a couple of people who didn’t really like working for a living, well not in the traditional manner anyhow. Our budding entrepreneurs decided that they would “borrow” a “Renault 9” that did not belong to them and go pick up some merchandise that also did not belong to them.
The thing is that the merchandise was a couple of pigs, and when I say a couple of pigs I mean about ten 100 -150 pound pigs from a nearby farm. The plan was to drive up, quickly get the pigs and then drive off. I can only hope that they had a buyer or some way to sell this special load of cargo.
We may never find out if that was the case as it seems that a normal automobile has a suspension for supporting the car itself and perhaps a couple of passengers. Removing the back seat does add additional space but doesn’t materially affect the amount of weight that the car can carry. Thus the suspension was not up for the total cargo and broke – this car was going nowhere. Our bacon minded thieves left the pigs in the car to go and acquire another form of transport.
It was probably quite the surprise to the passing police car that simply saw a car with fogged up windows that was parked where it should not be. He stepped out to check on what he expected to be a couple of love birds. As he approaches the car he actually does see an outline but rather than that of a human it appears to be that of a pig. Yup, it did not take long at all to determine that the passengers of this auto were pigs and the car was stolen.
The pigs were returned to the nearby farmer and the police had to do a crime scene investigation to try and determine who took this car. Pigs are not the cleanest of animals and their captivity in the car did not really change their habits. The car was a complete mess, and the police who had to search it were to say the least not very happy.
Upon leaving, the scene they noticed a couple of people who seemed to be taking an interest in the car. These two “gentlemen” were picked up and brought to the station. They were questioned and various formalities were taken care of. One of the forms that they had to sign was one that commented on their injured condition of the suspects. It seems that according to the forms the would be thieves were injured before being picked up by the policeman.
Apparently the police who had to search the car were not overly delighted by the process and what they had to go through. So it was possible that even though these men were not roughed up before entering the police station they were slightly roughed by the time they departed.