Beer and bottle caps
Well, robbers in a town in Germany did illegally enter a shop which sells beer and they did steal but, while they ruined a lot of beer, they did not take any. They did not take even drink a single beer. They opened many of them but drank nary a one.
These beer thieves were in fact not beer thieves; it was thanks to a contest where you collect points from the caps of the beer bottles that they came, they saw and they conquered – 1200 beer bottle caps.
The rather unsual robbery happened in Muelheim an der Ruhr in western Germany. Essen Police said that sometime on Sunday night the shop was broken into and all of the Koenig Pilsner beer bottle caps taken from their bottles.
Counting caps
It seems that, to the perpetrators of the crime at least, the prizes to be won in the contest were of more value than the beer. So what are they? Nothing too great, actually. Stereo speakers and your standard cordless drills, basically electrical devices, and not high-end ones, either.
No cars or money and, police said, no suspects as yet. Given the massive number of bottles opened they expect that more than one person was involved in the cap-removing crime.
Besides the beer the robbers left behind most of the caps because most were not winners. Beer caps that read: “good luck try again” were left all over the floor of the shop. Nobody did an inventory to see how many caps actually left the store with the bad guys. Would you wanna count all those caps?
As for the untouched 1200 bottles of beer, no word on what became of them.
