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Cat burglar strikes again!

by our top cri­me re­por­ter Uuno Koi­vu­la:

Yes­ter­day eve­ning in the Glob­cot­ton dist­rict of Old Gamps­hi­re an un­fo­re­seen event took pla­ce. A stu­dent na­med Hil­da Ma­cin­tosh was get­ting re­a­dy for bed, when she he­ard her front win­dow smash into pie­ces. Out of the win­dow clim­bed what Hil­da desc­ri­bed as ”an abo­mi­na­ti­on, half man, half cat”, who not only was ar­med with a ba­se­ball bat, but also was mo­ving with un­can­ny agi­li­ty. Wit­hout saying a word, the cre­a­tu­re rus­hed to Hil­da’s frid­ge and star­ted has­ti­ly con­su­ming all the milk the­re. Once it was fi­nis­hed, it gave Hil­da a frigh­te­ning gla­re and rus­hed back into the win­dow, ne­ver to be seen again.

Alt­hough ac­ti­vi­ty si­mi­lar to what Hil­da desc­ri­bed has been ob­ser­ved wit­hin the Glob­cot­ton dist­rict, it still shook Hil­da to her core. Sin­ce she had ins­tal­led a se­cu­ri­ty ca­me­ra at her door, she thought she was in­vul­ne­rab­le to int­ru­ders like the­se. ”I’ll have troub­le slee­ping at night un­til the case is sol­ved”, she says.

A so­mew­hat si­mi­lar event hap­pe­ned at Glob­cot­ton a month ago. Then, the vic­tim was a cor­po­ra­te en­ti­ty, whe­re­as yes­ter­day it was an in­di­vi­du­al. The town hall’s en­ti­re milk sto­ra­ge was con­su­med, with the burg­lar le­a­ving no tra­ce.

Be­fo­re yes­ter­day’s in­ci­dent the po­li­ce thought the sus­pect was an ac­ti­vist who­se go­als were po­li­ti­cal, gi­ven the tar­get of the cri­me. Ho­we­ver, un­less furt­her evi­den­ce pre­sents it­self, the aut­ho­ri­ties now think the mo­ti­ve of the cri­me was nou­rish­ment. ”I be­lie­ve it is of high im­por­tan­ce to sol­ve this case. If this con­ti­nu­es, the well-known Gamps­hi­ri­an sen­se of se­cu­ri­ty is at risk. I be­lie­ve the pe­op­le of Old Gamps­hi­re have an aver­si­on for ani­mal-ba­sed cri­mi­nals. For examp­le, just think of how se­ri­ous­ly the mere pre­sen­ce of ’a ra­ven mur­de­rer’ af­fec­ted them”, claims the chief in­ves­ti­ga­ti­ve of­fi­cer of Old Gamps­hi­re.

Cat burglar strikes again!

by our ex­pe­rien­ced cri­me re­por­ter Al­var Räty:

This mor­ning we have re­cei­ved word from the po­li­ce that the Bri­tish Mu­seum has been rob­bed! Se­ve­ral his­to­ri­cal ar­ti­facts were re­por­ted mis­sing, for examp­le the glo­bal­ly fa­mous Ro­set­ta sto­ne. This is a grand theft the li­kes of which hasn’t been seen in de­ca­des. Not only were the items he­a­vi­ly gu­ar­ded, with eve­ry door un­der lock and key, but the thief also da­red to le­a­ve a cal­ling card to the cri­me sce­ne. A toy black cat was found in the mu­seum’s main hall.

“The cri­mi­nal must have had in­ti­ma­te know­led­ge of the layout of the mu­seum, sin­ce he was able to avoid the se­ve­ral gu­ards and ca­me­ras in the buil­ding”, sta­tes the chief of po­li­ce Ro­bert Wil­son. “No

doors or win­dows were bro­ken, un­less you count one of the emer­gen­cy exits. It was se­a­led comp­le­te­ly shut from the in­si­de. I have re­a­son to be­lie­ve we might be de­a­ling with a gang, who­se mem­bers are in­vol­ved in the il­le­gal traf­fic­king of his­to­ri­cal items. Gi­ven their ha­bit of le­a­ving this cal­ling card be­hind, once we catch who­e­ver did this, we can tie them to se­ve­ral burg­la­ries and bre­ak-ins ac­ross the count­ry. Ho­we­ver, we can’t know that for cer­tain un­til the in­ves­ti­ga­ti­on pro­ceeds.”

In­deed, se­ve­ral mu­seums all over Bri­tain have been struck by mys­te­ri­ous thefts in the last few months. Even though the sto­len items vary, from pie­ces of art to gems­to­nes, a small toy in the sha­pe of a black cat has been found from all cri­me sce­nes. They ap­pe­ar to be cus­tom made, with no real way of iden­ti­fying the ma­ker. “It is li­ke­ly at le­ast some of the­se burg­la­ries have been com­mit­ted by “co­py­cats”, par­don the pun, ins­pi­red by the burg­lar. If that is the case, we might not see the end of this cri­me-spree in a good whi­le. Whe­re­as our sus­pect is cle­ar­ly a ca­reer cri­mi­nal with a goal, ama­teur burg­lars ins­pi­red by him are more li­ke­ly to hurt them­sel­ves or ot­hers”, Wil­son ad­mits. Re­cent events tru­ly seem like so­met­hing out of a co­mic book! Read more as we bring you the la­test news on the mys­te­ry of the Black Cat Burg­lar!

Cat burglar strikes again!

by our tough cri­me re­por­ter, who for pro­fes­si­o­nal re­a­sons wis­hes to re­main uni­den­fied:

Once again, we have fa­ced an out­ra­ge­ous prob­lem. Not only one cat was sto­len last night but also se­ve­ral ot­hers too. Pe­op­le in the city of Kuo­pio are tru­ly hor­ri­fied. Why would a burg­lar want to ste­al cats?

Many ci­ti­zens have been in­ter­vie­wed. Lar­ry, 30, re­counts that he he­ard some noi­ses in the midd­le of the night. Even though they soun­ded like foots­teps clim­bing up the stairs, he thought not­hing of it. Lar­ry says he lis­te­ned to the noi­ces un­til he he­ard his cat meow in a way he had ne­ver he­ard be­fo­re. He went downs­tairs but it was too late.

Pe­op­le who­se cats have been sto­len have gat­he­red around the city hall. Eve­ry one of them wants to get their dear pet back home. Ci­ti­zens have dis­cus­sed their mis­sing pets and one com­bi­ning fact is that they all are ol­der cats. For examp­le, three 28-year-old cats have been sto­len, whe­re­as the youn­gest cat sto­len is 19 ye­ars old.

Cats have been bru­tal­ly ta­ken from their ow­ners. Ci­ti­zens are wil­ling to take ac­ti­on to find the burg­lar un­less the po­li­ce will do it. Sin­ce we don’t know who the burg­lar is or what he’s going to do next, we won­der if we’ll face anot­her stri­ke. We ask all our ci­ti­zens to keep their eyes open and in­form the po­li­ce if so­met­hing stran­ge ap­pe­ars. Pe­op­le will stop wor­rying once their pets have been found.