In this story from Sweden, bus companies believe that criminals are smuggling a “short person” or child into luggage to ransack the luggage compartment of buses. Another example of small time petty crime in Sweden!

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The company Swebus reported that they believe “a short person” was robbing their luggage compartments during transit:

A gang of thieves is employing Trojan Horse tactics by smuggling a ’short person’ — a dwarf or child — on Swedish buses inside a large bag in order to ransack other bags in the luggage compartment.

Thieves are believed to have been robbing Swedish coaches by smuggling a “short person” into luggage compartments inside a large bag, the coach operator said on Tuesday.

One woman travelling from the town of Vasteras to Stockholm reported seeing two men squeezing a large, heavy bag into the luggage space under the bus. After arriving she found a camera, purse and other items missing.

TWO MEN squeezing into a bag, to be put into the luggage space under a bus? That must be a horrifyingly uncomfortable experience. Obviously, the only solution to this potential crime spree is to make it even more uncomfortable. Freeze the luggage? Put the luggage in a giant twirling roller spun by the bus engines? Repeatedly punch every piece of luggage to make sure “they won’t open in transit.” The solutions are endless. Of course, checking to see if a person is in a bag would probably be easy too… with a dog trained to do so. But don’t tell them that.

[Spiegel Online]

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