Pointing out stories you may have missed. A court in Marburg, Germany, has convicted three men of stealing more than 4km of rail track, weighing nearly 500 tonnes, to sell as scrap metal. The men pretended to be working for the national rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, when they began carving up a disused line, between nearby Niederwalgern and Lohra, with blowtorches. ``They even went around handing out leaflets to locals asking for understanding about the noise,'' a court spokesman said. The crime is so infamous that the regional education ministry has used it as a model for a maths exam, asking pupils to calculate the weight, volume and value of the stolen steel.News source: TVNZ.
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