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Man
Uses Vacuum Cleaner to Steal Coins
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden (AP) -- There was plenty of change jingling in one Swedish man's pockets
- but unfortunately for him, police saw him vacuum it out of a parking meter.
Mikael
Persson, 44, has been charged with theft for sucking coins out of city-owned
meters Feb. 17 in the southern city of Goteborg using a vacuum cleaner,
according to court documents seen Friday.
Police
said Persson used a pilfered set of keys to open the fronts of two meters,
which take 1-, 5- and 10-kronor coins. Then, because the area holding the coins
couldn't be cleaned out by hand, he plugged his vacuum cleaner into electrical
sockets that, conveniently enough, are provided on Sweden's electronic parking
meters.
He
had emptied one meter and had started on a second when police saw him. In his
pockets, they found coins worth more than 2,220 kronor (US$260).
Persson
pleaded guilty, but hasn't been sentenced.
Goteberg
is 295 miles southwest of Stockholm.
Posted April 5, 2003
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