LONDON (AP) — British police are seeking a burglar who may have a heavy conscience — or pockets — after stealing 15,000 pounds ($21,500) in 1-pound ($1.43) coins.
Greater Manchester Police said Friday that three houses in a street in Ashton-Under-Lyne, northwest England were robbed on Jan. 1. The culprits stole designer handbags, jewelry, a Range Rover and the trove of coins.
It wasn’t clear why the coins were kept in the house. Constable Dinesh Mistry said the haul weighed “the same as two average-sized women, or almost 10 cases of wine.”
He said police have asked local businesses to keep an eye out for a large number of pound coins. He said “it is hard to miss 15,000 pounds in pound coins so we believe someone must know something about this crime.”
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Given the rest of the swag, it’s hard to believe the coppers are concentrating on searching for the coin. Interesting, though, to see how the constable thinks: two average-sized women or ten cases of wine.
TPM:
Just look for someone who’s bragging about how they’ll never have to make change for the tube again.
It’s interesting to me how these coins look like money as compared to our quarters, dimes , nickles and pennies which recently have come to look like fake money. Example: find a penny from before 1982 and one from 2013. The 1982 coin has a much deeper stamping of Lincoln’s face and is pure copper. The recent penny has a very shallow relief of Lincoln and is a thin veneer of copper over cheap zinc. The same shallow reliefs appear on the rest of our coinage and our coins are sandwiched metals. They just look cheap.
If he’s caught, the penalty will be 15,000 pounds of flesh.
The guy’s probably hunched over and limping as well.
This screams of Mel Brooks…