21 February 2007: Hot Metal

A Macedonian scrap dealer became suspicious when two men turned up at his yard and tried to sell him 20 truckloads of steel.

When police investigated they found that the men had obtained the 200 tons of steel by dismantling two 30-foot bridges, piece by piece. It seems nobody had reported the bridges missing.

The two would-be vendors now have some different steel to look at - the bars in their prison cell.