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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8691)	6/23/2006 1:35:01 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) of 14758

Highway robbers show leap of inspiration (gang risks certain death for $1200 worth of hula hoops) Reuters ^ \| 06/23/06 Beijing police have detained a gang of thieves who pulled off a high-speed, highway heist straight out of a Hollywood action movie. Police patrolling a Beijing freeway saw several people "surfing" on top of a van as it pulled alongside a truck loaded with cargo, the Beijing News said Friday. "The men leapt from the van onto the truck's trailer and started throwing back bags of a white-colored substance" into the moving van, the paper said. After several kilometres, the men leapt back on to the van and sped away. Police later intercepted the van, the thieves and a one-ton cache of polyethylene, used originally in making hula hoops, worth more than 10,000 yuan ($1,250). The newspaper did not say how the thieves managed to grab their loot undetected by the driver. The polyethylene grab was not the first of its kind -- police have reported several incidents of leapfrog larceny on Beijing's highways in the last couple of years.

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