The University of Georgia is a strange sad place on the best of days, a sports- and booze-sodden universe, its lawns scattered with the remains of the last tailgate… But even by its own surreal standards, the theft of a forklift kind of pushes the envelope…
They’ve been looking for the thing for a month… It weighs 22,000 pounds and was, the university announced today, stolen by a university employee. (What’d he do? Drive it out?)
The article doesn’t say whether the university recovered the forklift…
How do you hide a forklift? Did he sell it?
February 21st, 2012 at 2:43PM
Construction and warehouse equipment theft is very common. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_equipment_theft. It all looks alike, and you just drive it away or load it on a trailer. You don’t have to hide it, just park it in a plausible spot in plain view, and most people won’t give it a second glance. It’s almost impossible to secure, so thieves often return to the same job-site over and over.
February 21st, 2012 at 4:18PM
Hide it where nobody goes: the library, for instance.
February 21st, 2012 at 5:21PM
do they still have libraries at universities I thought they had all been converted to cafe/study-areas
February 21st, 2012 at 7:41PM
Study areas? Don’t you mean Cyber-toriums?