Police save thieves from sticky escape route
Fri Nov 24, 6:20 AM ET
Two thieves on the run in Germany made light work for their pursuers when they tried to flee across a drained pond and got stuck so fast in mud they had to be helped out by police.
"They probably thought the pond looked dry and that it would be a handy shortcut," a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said Wednesday. "But they got totally stuck."
Having released the men from the sludge, po
