(don't think this has been posted before)
A gang of thieves is employing Trojan Horse tactics by smuggling a 'short person' -- a dwarf or child -- on Swedish buses inside a large bag in order to ransack other bags in the luggage compartment.
Thieves are believed to have been robbing Swedish coaches by smuggling a "short person" into luggage compartments inside a large bag, the coach operator said on Tuesday.
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He said the person is believed to have been smuggled onto the coach in a hockey equipment bag.
One woman travelling from the town of Vasteras to Stockholm reported seeing two men squeezing a large, heavy bag into the luggage space under the bus. After arriving she found a camera, purse and other items missing.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,530280,00.htmlIngenious. All the more reason to keep anything valuable with you, or have really good locks on luggage that can't be slit open.