{"id":141381,"date":"2016-06-14T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=141381"},"modified":"2017-03-07T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:26:46","slug":"theft-century-thug-stole-fence-tried-escape-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/06\/14\/theft-century-thug-stole-fence-tried-escape-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Theft of the Century? Thug Stole a Fence and Tried to Escape on a Bike with It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A common thief of scrap metal went a little bit too far with his creativity last week when he decided that a bike would be the ideal getaway vehicle for him and his loot \u2013 3 by 2 meters big pieces of zinc-plated fence.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It hadn\u2019t been long before a passing-by driver spotted him and contacted the police. He also made a photograph of the 40-year-old man from Karvin\u00e1, Czech Republic, which has since been doing the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141382\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-14-at-14.20.56.png\" alt=\"It hadn\u2019t been long before a passing-by driver spotted him and contacted the police. He also made a photograph of the 40-year-old man from Karvin\u00e1, Czech Republic, which has since been doing the rounds on social media.\" width=\"625\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got him thanks to the driver\u2019s diligence,\u201d said Zlatu\u0161e VIa\u010dkov\u00e1, the press agent of the local police force.<\/p>\n<p>The thief had decided to take ten pieces of this fence and had been hauling them away one by one, managing damages of roughly 10,000 CZK (370 euros) before the police caught him.<\/p>\n<p>He is now facing up to two years in prison for theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common thief of scrap metal went a little bit too far with his creativity last week when he decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":141385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[395,903,415],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-141381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety","tag-bike-stealing","tag-lock-challenge","tag-thief"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Theft of the Century? 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