Odd News

I have lived enough to see this happening: the world gone mad? I heard about silly things and silly people doing a lousy job hiding their tracks or stuff like that, but it is for the first time that someone just got away stealing a Porsche using nothing else but a flower pot. The story took place in Germany on Tuesday when a 56-years old man was backing out of his garage in his grey Porsche 997 Turbo. Until now nothing strange, not even the fact that he heard a scraping noise and got out to investigate and found a flower pot jamming one of the car's tires. The comedy starts when he bends down to remove the flower pot and a thief pushes him aside and gets in the car driving off. The poor man could do nothing more than step aside so the thief doesn't run him over. Fortunately enough the flower pot remained as a guarantee that eventually the car will be returned. Meanwhile, the former owner of the Porsche can enjoy his new pot. We thank police in the western city of Bonn for giving the material for such a good laugh. Although we are deeply sorry for the owner of the car, we can only say cheers to the thief, he's a genius. It is a one time event to trade a flower pot for a Porsche 997 Turbo that costs around 150,000 euro ($221,000). He even launched a new trend, the flower pot as the best theft- tool ever!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071206/ap_on_re_us/airport_flu_shots;_ylt=AtI2eszv.rl2yA4VZRyyJCqs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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