Thief Uses Vacuum to Steal Jewelry
  /yahoo/ Police in Kolding, Denmark, about 145 miles west of the capital, Copenhagen, said Friday that the thief drilled a small hole in the window of Lykke's Gold and Silver store Wednesday night, stuck in the tip of the vacuum's hose, and sucked out several items, including rings, necklaces and earrings.

  "We discovered it when we came to work in the morning," Kirsten Lykke Salling, the store's owner, said. "It was terrible, but at the same time funny because who would have thought of doing it that way?"

  Police said the burglar used a power socket at a nearby construction site for the electricity. They found the vacuum cleaner abandoned by the shop, but empty.

  "The thief slipped in the extremity of the vacuum cleaner through the window and therefore the alarm didn't go off when he vacuumed the displayed jewelry," said Carsten Thostrup, a Kolding police officer.

  No one has been arrested, he said.  ¶ 9/29/2002 01:48:00 PM