OSLO, Norway, February 23. FROM the northern latitudes of Norway comes this tale of strong-backed thieves and a luckless Norwegian family.<\/p>\n
It seems the Nicolaysens failed to bolt their swimming pool down. They felt — naively, it turns out — that just because it was filled with water and in the ground, the pool was an unlikely target for thieves. Turns out, they were wrong.<\/p>\n
According to Norwegian media reports, when the Nicolaysens visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago. <\/p>\n
"This can't be,' we thought, Arild Nicolaysen told state radio network NRK on Monday. "We didn't think it was possible. No one can steal a swimming pool."<\/p>\n
But someone did.<\/p>\n
Sometime between early November — when the family closed up the cabin for the winter — and mid-February, someone took off with their 5-meter-diameter (16-foot-diameter) pool and all its equipment.<\/p>\n
"It must have been a terrible job to disassemble such a big pool. There is a steel lining all the way around, plus there is a plastic liner and then there was a skimming system, a filter system and a lot of big hoses and pipes," said Brit Nicolaysen. <\/p>\n
Local police said the theft was definitely a first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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