13mm Spanners
So in college 10ish years ago I realized that a 13mm spanner would remove the nuts at the back of road signs.

Hence every morning over the next week the house would awake to stop signs, lane signs, directions, school ahead etc everything we could pretty much would end up on our kitchen floor.

We quickly grew bored though with this though this was small fry stuff easily stolen and hidden. There was no challenge... Until we decided to go big!

Just down the road was the sign welcoming visitors to our "gateway city passageway to yada yada yada" it was 15 foot by 10 foot but we decided after a night out it could be done... no it HAD to be done.

So we attacked it, my housemate and I attacking it with 2 spanners. After maybe 10 mins we had removed the lot, last few were awkward as we didn't think of the whole weight resting on a few bolts but hey we're students and only learning!

We learned another lesson that night. When you are robbing something make sure the item fits in your front door... or any door.

Our prize is now at the bottom of a river or slowly making its way along the bottom to the Atlantic Ocean.
(Samantha Bricks Better half done a poo on, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 16:04, 4 replies)

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Only 2 kinds of people regularly carry 13mm spanners ... which kind are you?
(Biff..., Fri 27 Apr 2012, 23:55, closed)

The
very bored student engineer type.

Is that one of the ones you were thinking of?
(Samantha Bricks Better half done a poo on, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:42, closed)

Good job the plod didn't catch you.
Can't they fine people that steal road signs/traffic cones? I only found this out a couple of years after I was living with a nicked traffic cone in my room.
( Bats, Sun 29 Apr 2012, 7:26, closed)

Irish Cops Though
The Gardai are rarely seen after 10pm.
(Samantha Bricks Better half done a poo on, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:43, closed)