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Egypt police in dark after 400 lamp posts stolen



CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptian police are trying to track down hundreds of street lamps worth almost a million dollars after they were stolen from a road in the north of the country, local media reported on Tuesday.

The 400 lamp posts, worth five million Egyptian pounds (905,000 dollars), were stolen from a motorway outside the Mediterranean city of Alexandria where they were waiting to be installed, the Egyptian Mail daily said.

A security official described the theft as unprecedented and police have asked for workshops to report anyone trying to sell the lamps as scrap in the hope of shedding light on the disappearance.

OMG,

I laughed at first until i saw the cost of them that's 1250LE per lampost. Wow!

Hasn't Goddess just had some new garden lights?

So is her's the one that looks like a footie pich

And the flood-lite golf course

Spike wrote:OMG,

I laughed at first until i saw the cost of them that's 1250LE per lampost. Wow!

You left a zero off that figure

Should be 12500le per lampost - WOW again, seems a lot of money for a lampost.

A security official described the theft as unprecedented and police have asked for workshops to report anyone trying to sell the lamps as scrap in the hope of shedding light on the disappearance.[/quote]

I wonder if he realises what he has wrote?

I just can't believe they stole them and nobody noticed !

Well, it was dark.

Humph! How come I get dragged into everything??

If it's anything like they did in my street - I'm not a bit surprised - they left the lamp posts lying by the side of the street for 2 months before they finally disappeared. Don't know who eventually came and took them as they too just vanished one night!

It's probably some of the big fancy black cast iron ones that they've been doing Alex up with - they really do look like a great hulk of fancy metal - definitely not one of those standard steel ones. The cast Iron ones are just monster ones with two suspended lights - so fancy stuff for Egypt!

What amuses me most is that there's a lamp post in the grave yard behind me! I took a few pot shots at it a few years back - as it cast an eerie orange glow all through my kitchen.