Police seek swimming pool thieves
The police are looking for a backyard swimming pool stolen from a Riccarton family, though they admit that their chances of finding the 13,000 litres of stolen water are now remote. The Girvan Street family was asleep in the house when the bold theft happened on the night of December 16, according to Constable Jerome Hol, of the Christchurch police.
He said a woman in the house got up at 2.30 a.m. to get a glass of water, but heard nothing of the backyard activity.
The thieves are thought to have entered the back of the property from the Avon River. They would have spent about five hours siphoning the water out of the pool. They dragged the smdiameter pool’s metal casing down to the river
to make their get-a-way.
Constable Hol said no drag mark could be found to show where the pool was taken out of the river. At least a trailer would have been needed to remove the pool.
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Press, 26 December 1986, Page 3
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